Precerpt from Raising Happy Cat Families (Norwood) - Greeting and Introducing a New Cat
Precerpt (excerpt prior to publication) from Raising Happy Cat families by Luna Norwood
Snyezhka, a Siamese-Tabby blend, was an easy rescue.
Night after night on our house surveillance camera, we would see this small tan
cat stop by our downstairs door, where we left food for the street cats, and
eat with relish. One night, I was in our basement area in the early hours of
the morning when Snyezhka came up our hill and to the downstairs door for her
nightly feast. As she ate, two large tom cats pounced on her, clearly ready to
mate her. But she was not in agreement, and she fought them off. Half their
size, with twice their spirit. I opened the door, quickly grabbed her, and
brought her inside.
She did not fight me. She appeared relieved to be safe
from her suitors. She slept on a chair in the basement room all night. I placed
a disposable litter pan near her, the kind that come with a removable lid,
seeded it with some poop from one of our litter robots, and she used it a
couple of times that night, as if she had always been a house cat (she had not).
I spent the night with her, and she quickly became used to me.
The next day, I took her upstairs to meet the other
cats. We were fortunate in this case. Our beta cat, Happy Cat, himself a street
rescue just a couple of months earlier, did a little happy dance when he saw
her and set himself to grooming her. Apparently, he had protected her on the
street before they both found themselves in our little cat family.
Happy Cat introduced Snyezhka to the other cats.
Although the vet sometimes called her “grumpy cat,” she had a sweeter
disposition than most Siamese and, after sticking closely to Happy Cat
initially, soon became a well-integrated member of the Leaver cat family.
So, how did Snyezhka integrate so easily (as most of
our cats have)? Thanks to Happy Cat! As the beta cat, he nurtured her. As her
previous companion on the street, he showed her the ropes. And as the best pal
at the time of Murjan, the alpha cat, he greased the rails for Murjan to accept
her. Once Murjan accepted a cat and assigned it a place in the hierarchy, all
the other cats also accepted the new cat and his/her assigned “rank.”
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