Cat Lover/Pet Lover Extraordinaire: At Your Service

Needless to say, this past few weeks has been very trying indeed. To help with the bills and to help with their financial situation as the summer months approach, we have taken on two new roommates. They are a couple, great people, with a great cat named KiKi. KiKi is the sweetest cat of somebody else’s that I have come across in a long time. She is a black and white DSH, with the cutest face ever. She has a lot of the personality traits that I like in a feline of my own, including her docile nature and the fact that she loves to be around people. The computer table (not the keyboard!) is one of her favorite places to be.

While I have thoroughly enjoyed this new feline addition to our home, I must say that it has been a trying experience to get her and my cat to enjoy one another. As a matter of fact, things were completely to the contrary with these two from the first moment KiKi’s carrier entered my home! She spent a few hours in there, a few hours around the house hissing at every ankle and table leg. Then, it was time to go out on the patio. If you are just now tuning in, that is where my cat prefers to spend all her time.

It has been a week now. They are outside sharing a litterbox and two sides to the same bowl! This time last week I was just sure that they were going to kill one another. I was even afraid to leave them alone, and although I think I know better KiKi has about two pounds on my cat and that could be the real deal breaker if they were to rumble.

So, how did I do it you ask? I just did. There were no special tricks. I figured that cats are a lot like people and have to get used to new people and new places when they come across them. Why can’t the same be said for cats? The next time you have to introduce two cats to each other, take my advice: just let them hate one another, as long as they are not beating the mess out of one another. They will eventually get over it, especially if there is only one litter box and one food bowl. Such scarcity could make felines fast forget their differences!