Introducing Cats to New Kittens for the First Time 

It's what I like to refer to as "Googley-eyed Cat Syndrome" 😂😺😂😺😂😺

My house is just like that my home is like a cat hotel

I know, I go on etsy and find these amazing trapeze cat things...but Gatsby Robert Plant McCartney has enough stuff...

And all their cats are really well adjusted and nice. Imagine that.

No it’s a cat sanctuary

Oh, you haven’t even SEEN other people’s houses. I saw some video about a guy who spent thousands of dollars creating a series of tunnels and bridges around his house for his cats to walk around on

Lol

Zigzag: I am Zigzag. Durrr Jugg: **mmmmeeeeoooowwww!** Owner: they are Zigzag and Jugg, Jugg is the neediest cat. And Zigzag is the happiest cat

@@nmasse ba

XD

Beat me to it

Exactly :D

It’s my first video of this channel so idk a lot about the cats but maybe Marmalade was the second cat after Cole so he has never been in this situation 😂🤷🏻‍♀️

Lama M yeah he was the second cat, you could be right

i feel like that’s just how marmalade looks all the time lol

First child vs second one

Remember when Cole was a kitten?

@@remliqa Yes

Lol🐱

It's those wide-set eyes. He's like the feline version of Missi Pyle.

I thought that too. As if he was wondering if they are live action toys! ☺

That seems to be his default expression tbh. I've never known another cat who looked so constantly startled. For once he has something to be concerned about though, he's suddenly a big brother!

we just placed the new kitten next to our cat and they were chill.. it just depends how ell you know your cat and it's temper

My male cat used to do that! He LOVED kittens. 😊 ❤️

Oreo The Food Motivated Cat She thinks they're not clean enough. 😅

Eu tenho 06 resgatados .

Sounds like my late cat Romeo. He and his sister helped raise a kitten since he was 3 days old. When the kitten passed because of what we guess was birth defects Romeo sniffed him and try to crawl into the box to warm him up :'(. My heart broke even more since I was the kitten's human mom. He only lived two months. The vet said that he had must have been born with something wrong and that is why his birth mom who was a stray had abandoned him. Anyway, on to happier news. I am so happy that CAM and the kittens get along and even play some togrther

*together

😂😂😂😂😂 I love this

Clap and a half for you 😂😂

Catman ;)

Cole : "Im you but older and with darker fur"

Yu Paige 😂😂

same here💕

Mine too. :)

Derpy cats are the best cats :D

I think he has downsyndrome

He's too wicked smart and super athletic to seem "Downs Syndrome-like" to me. But as the "Cooler" (Patrick Swayze) in the classic "B" movie, "Road House," said, "Opinions vary."

Can I speak how my cat bit me several time and hit her daughter, just because she was angry/scared from the 2 months kitten I brought😅 like I got scared from her and even tried holding her with my jacket... she went full stray mode loool

It is hard to go from being the baby to a middle child.

lol:)

He's such a good big brother. They taught him well, not accounting his naturally calmer demeanor when around cats and kittens younger and smaller than him.

just like my tai did when he met his twin niece and nephew my little cali and logan

cole*

The car court has decided tom to keep the children instead

But theyre not his children! He has been fixed forever, and apparently just decided saving these feral kittens was his responsibility. So Bubba adopted them, brought them inside and presented them to the rest of the family. And now we have three more indoor cats. Of course I support all my cats' decisions and choices, so....... Yeah, three more indoor cats. But they sure are cute!

AnnBearForFreedom that’s amazing! That Tom is such a soft guy haha, so cute

AnnBearForFreedom Good on you for taking on Bubba's new friends. You are clearly one of THOSE people that we need more of. I'm sure Bubba won't mind some of his food bill going to his mates. (My grocery bill would be halved if I didn't have one who doesn't care and the other who gets fed on demand every 4 hours with the best on offer or he'd rather starve). All worth it when they sloth all over you on the couch.

That's literally adorable! My big 7-ish yr old boy (all my cats are fixed) loves all my foster babies, he accepts everybody I bring home! He's a really good boy!

@@coleandmarmalade looking forward for exclusive marm reaction video with love 💖

Lmao I was more curious about Cole being he is the alpha

Sniff xD

@@raerae886 me too!! I had my fingers crossed

Lets just keep it at bubba and nippy

Dude I love you guys 😻

Oh meh gud N2 Cat Crew is here :3

N2 Cat Crew yay n2 cat crew!

N2 Cat Crew!!! Official stamp of approval. Zig and zag are soooo adorable. I love torties. They are so smart and affectionate. Hey Kona and Bo! We love you.

Omg yes! 😂😂

Same here

That math test whore me out. Im feeling energizef now!

For the better

E m i Are you sure it’s Monday?

Same xD

IKR

Haha 😂

My 2 cats get along fine, but the older one hates everyone else that is not a human.

same bahah

We have a similar wee cat who assumes that she is the boss lady among our ten - !

@@simongee8928 ...let me guess...she's a torti? I have that going on...smallest cat, torti, boss cat!

Diane Moore Thank you for your sweet story

When I got my first cat shadow she was always kind of mean but when she was around 1.5 yrs old we took in another cat my cousins brought cuz they couldn’t give him a home and my cat shadow took him as her own in 3-4 days and we got two more cats a year later and she was like a mom to all of them and they wouldn’t even challenge her for dominance either

You're a wonderful person.

@@bricheese3208 You're a wonderful person.

My kitty is 8 months and my new kitty is 2 months I just introduced about a week ago. Lots of hissing. These are my first cats ever I am learning so much.

Mary Jane Adams Agree.... Marm has that wide eyed startled look!!!!!

Did you see his expression in the video where they first showed ZigZag? She had to live on the porch for awhile due to ringworm, and Marm was glued to the window wearing the biggest "da FUQ?!?!" expression ^pets him^ I feel like the poor guy still isn't sure what's going on...

" It's an invasion of my own species." XD

"What have you done to my home, humans??"

"... what do you MEAN, they're STAYING???"

It was finally time for lil Marmalade to be a big brother. Hope CAM will be happy taking care of and teaching JAZZ.

Catfish Cave As the representative of the food source federal agency, (FSFA), families with kittens get 35% more food, and 50% or higher for families with 2+ kittens. Marmalade will be getting the same amount, if not, more, and for Cole, ask Chris for the answer

Per Feline Law, he may actually end up getting more food. When the kittens are fed, it may become necessary to distract him by giving him a little extra while they are eating.

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You've done it perfectly! I had my cat for seven years when I introduced a new cat. Both were seniors, 12 and 11, and it took a month to go through this process before we were sure they would get along! I understand a kitten would've probably been an easier choice for my first cat, but I couldn't resist this sweet boy I saw at a shelter. They coexisted, but it wasn't until the new cat became ill that my other cat really gave him attention. It was heartbreaking but wonderful to see 💓

Same! :)

@@Tipi83 he has a Resting surprised Pikachu face

Lol yes

xoxo

I know right? The brothers look already in love with their new baby sisters

Butters The Bean I love your channel!

Butters!!!! OMG! It's a cat partae here! Yeah!!!

Yeaa

cat21860 They’re so pretty!

That's how mine is! That's why we personally have a "One Tortie at a time" rule. so if we've already got a tortie no adopting more :P

With a very cute meow

LMAO. He looked like "Oh good gravy.. Where are they coming from???

4:24 lol

You mean zig zag

A lot of the steps listed are optional (like the cleaning of the room before putting the new cat there), but can reduce stress for the animals involved. A lot of animals can take the introduction of another animal very well. Others, not so much. When we moved into a house that had a couple other (very friendly) cats in it, my poor Spider hid in the basement for literal MONTHS before she started coming up to get to know the others. She was so terrified she started losing hair and weight. We put a screen door on the basement stair well so she could be in there safe and isolated (it's a finished basement with a wood stove, so she was never cold or uncomfortable) but still see and smell the other cats. And, of course, her hoomans spent a lot of time with her, which helped a lot. It took time, but she slowly came around. I wouldn't call her and the others FRIENDS, but she's not frightened of them any more. I think a cat that grows up surrounded by other cats is in the best possible position to accept new cats smoothly and, of course, kittens are adaptable, which can help a lot.

Hi Hannah, Yeah, I was wondering if anybody was going to mention about the Hissing. Really, Cole and Marmalade must have had their fair share of hissy fits. I think that one does not so much want to protect the kittens from attack as one wants to save the older cats from getting so worked up and upset. I recently introduced a new kitten and found that, despite all the rage, fury and demonic hissing, the Cats were actually avoiding the Kitten. To attack the kitten, they would have had to approach it, but they stayed away (perhaps an evolutionary development in Domestic Cats that prevents them from murdering kittens which the Human Beings, their Symbiotic Species, wouldn't understand or appreciate). In my own case, the Hissing tapered way down in just a few days. As the hissing subsided, so did the avoidance behavior.

we just placed the kitten in the room with our older cat

My method of introducing a kitten to a cat: 1. Place carrier with kitten on floor. 2. Open carrier. 3. Let them sort it out themselves. We really don’t have the space or individual rooms for anything else. The resident cat might be hissy and growly for quite a while if destined to be a grouchy older sibling rather than a parent, such as is the case with the current Senior Cat and Junior Cat. Senior was six years old at the time and had just lost her dad and been promoted from Junior Cat to Senior Cat a couple of weeks before. But one ten year old mother-to-be many years earlier was in a state of shock for the first two days after her bouncy daughter-to-be arrived (The Calico Kitten From Hell) but was playing with the sprout by Day Three and trying to groom her shortly after that. So basically you have to give it time and not freak out when conflict occurs. Unless your adult cat is a psychopath, he or she won’t actually hurt the kitten. Junior did spend her first few hours hanging close to me in a shallow box I put next to the computer while I worked, when not trying to periodically investigate the small house (there are bigger efficiency apartments, but we have a staircase and an upstairs). But she lost any such shyness within a few hours. She couldn’t resist trying to hang out with Senior Cat, not sure if that helped or hindered acceptance. There was a lot of rude noise from Senior for a few weeks, but less and less as time went on. I’ve seen worse. Junior was about 3-3.5 months when she arrived, looked about the size of these kittens. Senior got used to her eventually but is just a tad belligerent by nature - she runs in through the cat door when she spots a mail carrier or delivery person or persistent little kid coming up the walk, and then gets on a chair and hisses and growls at them through the safety of the closed door (the door is mostly window). She even did the hissy growly thing to her adoptive father (the former Senior Cat, R.I.P.), who at the time was a 12 year old who was sweet and kind to her from the very beginning. On the third day, he flopped down on the floor, blocking the way to the litter boxes, looked at his rude new daughter, and quietly growled at her with nonhostile body language. Must have sounded like mom, because she loved him dearly from then on and wouldn’t leave him alone. He was always destined to be a loving parent, not a sibling. The current Junior Cat never acted really afraid of her growly big sister, though. Cautious when sis was in a mood, but not really fearful. The current Senior Cat will try to push her around a bit - I remember when Junior was still smaller (maybe about 8 months old) and minding her own business on the porch near a wall, Senior sashayed past her and did a quick side bump with her body, pushing Junior into the wall. Senior kept on walking as though nothing had happened.... Junior looked a little startled, but didn’t move away. (I was having a lot of flashbacks to my own childhood with an older brother.) Junior is more willing to stand up to grouchy big sister now (Junior is maybe 1.5 years now, a lot smaller than Senior but bigger than at 8 months), usually with a boxing match. Cole and Marmelade seem kindly but firm with the smaller ones, so I wouldn’t expect any big problems with their adjustment. Cole is experienced with having a kitten invader - I think that’s what helped the adoptive dad of the current Senior Cat, he had experience with kittens because he lived out in the country for his first 8 years after rescue and people were always dumping cats and kittens on his former pet human. He came to me with a four year old who had arrived in his former pet human’s shed a couple of years before, barefoot and pregnant. So he knew her kittens also.

Hannah O - part of how the adults react is showing them who is in charge, but it’s also normal discipline when a kitten violates the feline social code. They’re teaching the kittens manners. With really young kittens, the adult will often swipe the paw above the kitten’s head as such discipline. Even at 2 or 3 months, adults really aren’t hurting the kitten when they swipe at it. They are probably keeping their claws in (I’ve never detected any scratches or bleeding on the kitten). The adults seem to wait until the kitten is a certain size before they will even make contact that way. Even if the kitten desperately wants to wrestle, the adult generally will only carefully box until the kitten is older and even then, the adult is careful to not use full force in a wrestling match - just enough to show the kitten he or she has a long way to go before being a match for the adult. I’ve seen a kitten wiggling her behind from the rim of the tub, ready to pounce on the older one while the older one is lying on the floor and pretending she doesn’t even notice. Of course the older one knows exactly what’s going on and ends the match quickly... Even grouchy Senior Cat (who acted like W.C. Fields for weeks, “Go away kid, ya bother me”) was careful not to physically hurt Junior Cat - she just made rude noises which of course Junior pretty much ignored. And Senior was at least three times the size of Junior in the beginning.

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hahaha🤣....Coke. That was cute.😀

Jaeylnn Kim I ment cole buy it said coke XD

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I was just going to comment the same thing 🙂

That's adorable!

Stark and Steve ...

Jai Nicole - Well, you were trying to keep a father separated from his children... He wasn’t their big brother, he was their dad!

I will love them and I will love them now

Charles might be their adopted dad. Stark was a dumped kitten that found me and Steve was the last kitten being given away outside my work. Charles hasn't ever had any of his own kittens, he was a shelter kitten so he was snipped young.

I think Zig Zag loves Cole like a big bro

Thank you so much for liking my comment

Naomi Alozie It definitely took awhile to make, though.

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