Caturday: Precerpt from Raising Happy Cat Families (Norwood) - Integration of New Cats: Safe Places
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This Caturday, the precerpt is from Raising Happy Cat Families by Luna Norwood from the section on integrating new cats into a cat family.
SET UP A SAFE PLACE
Before bringing a new cat home, it helps to set up a separate room or
area where they can feel safe and comfortable. This space should include
essentials like food, water, a litter box, toys, and a comfortable bed. The new
cat needs to feel secure and have a place to retreat to if he or she feels
overwhelmed. Our cat room has a cat tree with lots of cubbies and sitting
ledges, along with attached swinging play toys. And, of course, food and water
dishes and a litter robot or Tidy Cat Breeze Litter System. (With eight cats, I am not enthusiastic about
traditional scoop-the-poop clump litter pans.)
We have not usually put a bed in the cat room because the cats have
always preferred the cat tree cubbies, but a bed might well be in order if a new cat
comes from an environment, such as a shelter, where it is used to having a bed.
Our new cats have generally been feral cats from the street. Beds are luxuries
that they have never encountered before.
Now, the safe space has to be off limits to other cats in order to be a
truly “safe” spot for new kitty. Later, it will serve as an accessible sanctuary
for a quick return when the new cat is brought out into the greater world.
Bobolink would flash from living room to cat room in what seemed like less than
a second. Beside me one minute, in his safe cubby the next. He held onto that
safe place for months although we began to let other cats share it once he had bonded
with Happy Cat and begun a lifetime of happy play.
We did not and do not rush the integration for any of our cats. If they
take months, fine. If they take weeks, fine. Moo took only hours, but Simone
took two years! Both are friendly with all the cats now and are very
affectionate with their humans.
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