r/kittens • u/Halal_Cart • 21h ago
Part 2 of “First time cat owner, I’m in love 😍”
This is a part 2 of my original post when I asked if I should get my new cat Bella a new friend. And after reading your guys responses, I decided to get her a new friend and picked him up literally the day after (Yesterday)
Bella’s new friend is a male, about 3-4 weeks younger. I just got him yesterday around 6pm and got him home by 7pm.
I’ve read many Reddit posts and also on YouTube on steps on introducing a new kitten to my kitten. It was recommended by many to give them time and space to get accustomed. But I just felt like Bella was a sweetheart and so is the male friend I picked up for her. He’s so cuddly and needy, a lot more than Bella when I first picked her up.
So when I first brought him into the house, I let Bella smell him through the carrier bag, I was thinking of just bringing him straight into my room and keep the separate for a while, but something told me to just let him out the bag and see how they interacted.
When he got out the bag, Bella was for sure excited, watching him from a distance. Then about like 20 minutes later, they started to chase each other. It was Bella first then I thought she was bullying him and I told her to stop. But minutes later, he was chasing her back and they were doing zoomies all over my house, which I loved because this was what I wanted for both of them. Btw, I was supervising everything. And it was for sure they were playing. I saw nothing negative between their interactions.
When it was sleeping time, I took him to my room to sleep. (My room is where I set up his bed and litter) But they both wouldn’t sleep, they just kept smelling each other through the door. So I decided to just go out to the living room and let them tire them selves out. And trust me, they did!! They were doing zoomies from 12:30am to 2am, I couldn’t sleep. But I did fall asleep watching them play with each other just incase. When I woke up, Bella was literally right on my chest and didn’t move the whole night while the new male friend was around my leg sleeping. So far, looking like they’re very fond of each other.
Today morning, I woke up, fed them both. Then couple minutes later they were now wrestling each other. I was very observant and trying to see if it was fighting or playing. I watched a lot of YouTube videos, but they were definitely playing. Just to confirm I sent the video to a couple of my friends that have cats and they were playing. (Posted a clip on this post, lmk what you guys think)
They’ve slowed down now, they just in the living room just kinda staring at each other once in a while but no fights or any aggression yet, I’m blessed and so happy for both of them.
So happy that I could find Bella a friend and they’re actually getting along from day 1. Even though I played with Bella well over 75 minutes everyday, I knew she needed more than just playing with me, I think it’s honestly the perfect fit between these two.
I love them both so much, but I have to say Bella is still my first cat ❤️ but I love them the both, will never put one cat in front of another.
Honestly I have so many better videos of them two interacting but I can’t seem to post videos on this subreddit.
A SINCERE Thank you to everyone from the past post for the advices for me as a first time cat owner, or slave now I could say 😂. And I don’t mind it at all. I really do appreciate everyone’s genuine concern and help ❤️ 🙏
Just happy that Bella found a friend for life.