I’m fostering a cat for a coworker. Her and her husband adopted him before realizing he was extremely allergic. Another coworker is going to take him when she moves in a couple weeks.
Guy is extremely sweet and affectionate. I’ve had him cordoned off in a spare room because I have two cats of my own. They’re obviously not enthused. The weird thing is that he kind of is?
Guy was estimated to be 3 years old by the shelter. I expected that he’d spend a few days in hiding before I could start slowly acclimating him and my cats. Thing is, he was chill after two hours and hasn’t hissed or recoiled once. He’s tackled the new environment like he’s already at home, is very responsive to me, and, oddest of all, not only is he not put off by my cats, it’s like he has this enthusiasm towards them. It’s like he’s a puppy. It reminds me of when my boy was a kitten.
So I’ve got my much larger male cat hanging back and staring at him warily during their last brief face to face. New cat beelines towards him undeterred, non-aggressively, almost curiously. I keep them separated after my boy hisses and hunches up. New cat still undeterred. I go back to separating them entirely.
While it definitely makes the idea of integrating them a little easier since I only have to worry about one side of the equation, is this not odd behavior for an adult cat? It seems like it would make more sense that this new cat still has some vestiges from being a kitten.
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from Pets https://www.reddit.com/r/Pets/comments/fif3x5/new_cat_younger_than_estimated/
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