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Colonel_Klinck said:
So our other cat 3 years old Oscar is also unimpressed by the 2 new arrivals. He's not been aggressive with them, if they've got too close he hisses and if that doesn't work they get the deep growl, that does the trick and they leg it. He'll come around soon, we did feed them next to each other yesterday and everything was fine until Ernie on finishing his decided he wanted in on Oscar's as well. They went nose to nose for a sniff but then the growl came and he legged it. I think in a week or two they'll have him playing, he loves to play with Milo next door who is a year younger than him, they are constantly rough and tumbling.

That kitten looks super sweet :D
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Our cats are a similar age to yours at almost 4 years old (a rescue that we've only had for 4 months) and the kitten sisters are 4 months old. There's been no fur flying but certainly a lot of hissing from the first resistant alien, in fact she's not even got as close as a meter to them yet. As soon as she hisses the other two scarper.

I'm not sure how long we should give it before realising it won't work.
 
Colonel_Klinck said:
More lap action. Ernie is slowly coming around to being petted. Bert loves having his belly tickled already, I'll get Ernie's belly in the end

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These are too cute !
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Mysterae_ said:
Our cats are a similar age to yours at almost 4 years old (a rescue that we've only had for 4 months) and the kitten sisters are 4 months old. There's been no fur flying but certainly a lot of hissing from the first resistant alien, in fact she's not even got as close as a meter to them yet. As soon as she hisses the other two scarper.

I'm not sure how long we should give it before realising it won't work.
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How long has it been. When we first got Oscar, my cat who just passed went absolutely ballistic. He made noises that could raise the dead. I took him for a walk and he didn't stop swearing for about 5 minutes and 100m from the house. We kept them separated for around 7-10 days and then slowly let them share the same space. Bifty always slept on my bed and if I was in my room he was with me unless he was outside. One day Oscar jumped on the bed and curled up 50cm from Bifty and Bifty didn't do anything. From then on we just let them get on with it and he'd get a smack occasionally but nothing serious. I wouldn't give up too soon, the older cat will come around and will at worst tolerate the kittens or maybe will develop a good relationship.
 
Colonel_Klinck said:
How long has it been. When we first got Oscar, my cat who just passed went absolutely ballistic. He made noises that could raise the dead. I took him for a walk and he didn't stop swearing for about 5 minutes and 100m from the house. We kept them separated for around 7-10 days and then slowly let them share the same space. Bifty always slept on my bed and if I was in my room he was with me unless he was outside. One day Oscar jumped on the bed and curled up 50cm from Bifty and Bifty didn't do anything. From then on we just let them get on with it and he'd get a smack occasionally but nothing serious. I wouldn't give up too soon, the older cat will come around and will at worst tolerate the kittens or maybe will develop a good relationship.
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That bit above in bold made me chuckle, I know what that sounds like!

It's coming up to two weeks that we've had kittens, so too early at the moment. After this weekend the kittens will be given free-roam to the rest of the house and we'll see what happens!
 
Mysterae_ said:
Our cats are a similar age to yours at almost 4 years old (a rescue that we've only had for 4 months) and the kitten sisters are 4 months old. There's been no fur flying but certainly a lot of hissing from the first resistant alien, in fact she's not even got as close as a meter to them yet. As soon as she hisses the other two scarper.

I'm not sure how long we should give it before realising it won't work.
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Sometimes it never does.

Our family cat had a daughter whom we kept, when she was weaned the mother cat didn't want anything to do with her, and would always hiss and growl if she ever got near her. :(
 
Mysterae_ said:
That bit above in bold made me chuckle, I know what that sounds like!

It's coming up to two weeks that we've had kittens, so too early at the moment. After this weekend the kittens will be given free-roam to the rest of the house and we'll see what happens!
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If the older cat hasn't stalked/attacked them then I think they'll be fine. The older cat will simply warn them to stay away if she doesn't want them too close. Hopefully the more time they spend around each other the more relaxed she becomes. I wouldn't be too concerned.
 
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Kelt said:
Sometimes it never does.

Our family cat had a daughter whom we kept, when she was weaned the mother cat didn't want anything to do with her, and would always hiss and growl if she ever got near her. :(
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I think it's a youtube myth that cats always love each other. Sometimes they just don't. They usually learn to coexist though. I have had times where there has been hissing and fighting if you forced them together, but usually they just avoided each other. They carved out their own routine to avoid each other. Oddly, I always found the worse problems came with two females rather than two males.
 
Lollipop has (at approaching 1 year old) started urinating on our son’s bed. Really not sure what has changed or why, but this is the third instance in 7 days :(

Up until today she has only ever used her litter tray (with the exception of a couple of accidents when she was a tiny little kitten).
 
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paradigm said:
Lollipop has (at approaching 1 year old) started urinating on our son’s bed. Really not sure what has changed or why, but this is the third instance in 7 days :(

Up until today she has only ever used her litter tray (with the exception of a couple of accidents when she was a tiny little kitten).
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That is marking her territory. Something has upset her and made her feel insecure.
 
paradigm said:
Lollipop has (at approaching 1 year old) started urinating on our son’s bed. Really not sure what has changed or why, but this is the third instance in 7 days :(

Up until today she has only ever used her litter tray (with the exception of a couple of accidents when she was a tiny little kitten).
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It's possible she is just confused about what a litter tray is and what it isn't. Or she has picked up a scent that makes her think she needs to mark the area. The females are just as bad at marking as the males. Fortunately, not as smelly.
You can't tell them off about it, they don't understand and they just think you are an inconsistent owner.
Cats are very habitual so difficult to stop them doing something like that. You need to break the habit. She needs to be banned from that room and then everything thoroughly cleaned so it loses her scent. Eventually she will forget about it and she can be allowed back in.
 
khevolution said:
Facinated by our toilet flushing


Ha Ha i stole the small humans toy!
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They look very cute when they do odd things but we never leave lid up.

Years ago the next door neighbour found a injured rabbit so put it in outside toilet for the night - Next morning it was head down in pan drowned. - If you think about it if they go in head and feet first they have very little room to push themselves out.
 
paradigm said:
Lollipop has (at approaching 1 year old) started urinating on our son’s bed. Really not sure what has changed or why, but this is the third instance in 7 days :(

Up until today she has only ever used her litter tray (with the exception of a couple of accidents when she was a tiny little kitten).
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Has she been spayed? Could be a territory thing. Or maybe a UTI?
 
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