Precerpt from Raising Happy Cat Families (Norwood) - Greeting and Introducing a New Cat 2
Precerpt (excerpt prior to publication) from Raising Happy Cat families by Luna Norwood. Here are some suggestions that tend to work in general with cats being integrated and that we have tried, sometimes successfully and sometimes not so (but alternatives worked): Control the Smells I put vanilla on each of the cats so that they would smell alike when we were trying to suggested to us when we were trying to integrate an independently oriented new cat (Wooper) and a demanding alpha cat (Murjan) long before Snyezhka joined the family. Well, it did not work all that well although some folks say it has for them. We had not asked Murjan permission to bring home another cat, and he let us know in no uncertain terms that we should have! Another way to control the smells, according to cat experts, is a pheromone oil dispenser that is plugged into an electrical socket. It was and is widely advertised as a great way to calm cats and help them get along. Well, Murjan wo...