Introducing Hiro to our home cats - Day 8

Today's interaction.

We decided to let all of them eat together without any barrier.

It all went quite well at first. Before food were served Nala even sniff at Hiro 's ass and allow Hiro to smell him back.

But somehow at one point after the food are all finished, I think, Hiro proceed to approach Nala too quickly and that triggered Nala to get agitated and showed Hiro some hissing and scratching.

We quickly separated them again.

And then, Danielle suggested that we let them sniff at each other by putting Hiro in a cage.

Everything seems to be going quite well. I was afraid that Hiro might get stressed up, but somehow he was quite calm all the while. Nala and ocean were the ones that showed their ears backwards instead, especially Nala.

But the good thing is there was not hissing and aggression showed for thr entire 30min exercise, until at one point where Nala tried too hard, and Hiro started hissing,  and that the point where we decided to call it for the day.

https://youtu.be/YLgVKV7D1VI

Introducing Hiro to our home cats - Day 7

Decided to let Hiro meet with Ocean and Nala face to face. ....but with tight supervision.

That room is Hiro ' s room. And I'm holding Hiro tightly as he seems to be very eager to wanna approach Nala and Ocean.

Surprisingly Ocean suddenly came over and walked past us, entering into Hiro ' s room. I'm not sure if that is a good thing, but no hissing from Hiro and Ocean, so I'm taking that as a positive progress. :)

With Ocean in the room , I carried Hiro out and let him stay put on a side , so that Ocean has a larger space to exit the room , and also Hiro has a better view of both Nala and Ocean.

After a while, Ocean decided to leave the room and sit down at the hall, 3 feet beside Nala. Both of them seems at ease and relaxed :)

I kept holding Hiro all the time, and after a while we decided to call it for a day.

We plan to continue with this exercise for the rest of the week, before letting them get Contact and sniff each other at freely.

Here is a Video taken from outside of the room of Hiro.

https://youtu.be/bm8qmB58M3M

Introducing Hiro to our home cats - Day 6

I decided to post the progress of introducing our new 1 year old cat, Hiro, to our house cats Nala (8 yrs) and Ocean (9 yrs).

For the past few days, hiro was left in our study room with water , food, sandbox and toys available to him.

They only interact thru the small opening from the bottom of the door.

The first few days saw some hissing from Ocean. And occasionally Nala too.

On the 3rd day, Hiro peed on my pants and due to some stupid thing that I did, that odor get transfered to the entire house. This eventually made Ocean very unhappy, and he made a lot of hissing and angry sounds, which later on attacked me (well...actually my foot).
I guess the urine smell of Hiro on my leg wasn't very pleasant and comfortable to him.

The hissing gets lesser for the past 2 days. And last nite, we didn't hear a single hiss.

This morning I decided to take it a small step further. As usual I fed ocean and nala right in front of the study room, and then proceed on to feeding Hiro in the study. But today, I decided to leave the study room open while feeding so that 3 of them have the chance to look at each other.

Everything seems cool. They have that stare at first, but continued on eating. I decided not to push thing too fast, and so I closed the door and let them eat separately after a while.

After having my breakfast, I tried something new again. Sitting behind thr study room door, I opened the door, but stopped it and maintained the opening at a very small space, just enough for them to see each other and have their paws thru.

Ocean doesn't seem to be very interested. Nala seems very keen. He kept peeping and trying to push open the door. Hiro seems very excited and ran towards the door. Nala .... I think....he didn't anticipated for that sudden surprise, and made a huge hissing sound and some paw punching. Hiro backed off 3 steps and looked confused. And after a while hiro calmed himself, sits down, and keep watching at Nala.

They both watched each other for quite some time, with occasionally Nala making some strange sound (not hissing) and hiro chirping.

Eventually Hiro went back to his playground and was happy again playing with his toys. I decided to call it a day.

I personally see that as a good progress. Its the same in pur lifes.
Some see Conflicts as a negative thing. I choose to view conflict as something positive.
Conflict exists because there is a disagreement between a communication of 2.
If there is no conflict, it doesn't mean that the disagreement isn't there. It just means that the problem is simple swept under the rug.
When there is communication , there is a chance for resolving the disagreement. the process might or might not be a pleasant one, but at least, there is a chance for resolving the disagreement. That is the first step to peeling of the problem one at a time.