So, my roommate recently got a new kitten, Apollo (Jan. 30th) after her older cat (19 y/o) passed. I currently have my own cat, Nyx, who I rescued at 5 weeks and has been with both of us since (we’ve been roommates for awhile). We’ve slowly been introducing the two cats as recommended and it’s been going ok, but yesterday my roommate had to go out of town for 2 weeks due to a family emergency. My problem now is that I’m now the sole caretaker of the two cats and I’m looking for advice on how to better split my time between the two cats in order to continue smoothly introducing them. Beforehand, it was obviously easier because Apollo isn’t technically mine so my roommate was able to spend majority of her time with the new kitten while I was still able to focus on Nyx so she didn’t feel neglected or like we were replacing her, etc. and we’ve been able to slowly let them into the living room together to spend time getting used to each other. But now that it’s just me I feel like I’m unable to give Apollo the same or nearly the same attention he was getting and I feel bad but I also don’t want Nyx to feel neglected. Since we still aren’t comfortable leaving them together unsupervised Apollo is having to spend more time alone in my roommates room and also sleeping alone. Apollo is essentially completely acclimated to Nyx (no surprise) but Nyx is still pretty wary of Apollo. When they’re together she’ll either just observe him from afar, or slowly creep closer to him and try to either startle him or bat at him. She doesn’t hiss as much but if he approaches her or gets to close of his own accord she will occasionally hiss at him or even if she instigates interacting with him on her own if he starts to try and play with her she’ll immediately back up or run away. If I spend time with Apollo in my roommates room alone she sits at the door and constantly tries to get in but I know as soon as I let her in she’s going to hiss at Apollo in his own space for getting too close to her. I guess I’m just looking for recommendations on best practice to continue getting them used to each other and whether or not it sounds like Nyx is slowly accepting him or what. I’d really like to be able to have them at least be able to spend a longer amount of time together supervised so that I don’t have to keep Apollo locked up when I get ready for bed or just wanna relax after work in my room without having to constantly worry about breaking up an actual fight during these next two weeks. Especially because I work 2nd shift and don’t get home until around midnight or later and don’t wake up until the afternoon so I feel like my window to be able to give them both enough attention together and separately is limited especially b/c I’m so tired after my shift. I know there’s no immediate solution but I just wanna make sure I don’t accidentally neglect Apollo while trying to keep Nyx comfortable/safe.
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