{"id":3774,"date":"2019-10-24T03:31:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T11:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3774"},"modified":"2019-10-24T03:31:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T11:31:49","slug":"thoughts-for-thursday-how-to-introduce-another-cat-into-the-household","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3774","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts for Thursday \u2013 How to Introduce Another Cat Into the Household"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A blog follower asked if I\u2019d cover this topic. I\u2019ve actually written articles on the subject in my other life (as a freelance article-writer), for Cat Fancy Magazine<\/em>, as I recall. It might still be floating around on the Internet someplace. But meanwhile, let me suggest some other good articles on the subject.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.animalwised.com\/how-to-introduce-a-new-cat-to-another-cat-2480.html<\/a> https:\/\/www.thesprucepets.com\/introducing-cats-101-552003<\/a><\/p>\n

Smokey, the cat I patterned Rags after, had to be re-\"\"homed when my mother died earlier this year. My niece and her husband and son created a plan for making the move as pain-free for Smokey and their resident cat, Kitty Boo-Boo, as possible. And they were successful.<\/p>\n

They used several of the suggestions in these articles, but they had an added challenge. Smokey had been an indoor-outdoor cat his whole life. In his new home, he would be totally indoors. We thought this would be a struggle and that Smokey would be one unhappy cat. As it turned out, he adjusted to the new policies and rules quite easily. We\u2019ve all sighed a sigh of relief knowing that this beloved cat is still the king of his castle with some wonderful new benefits. He and Kitty Boo-Boo are now friends and he no longer has any desire to go outside.<\/p>\n

Now go out and adopt a needy cat to keep you and your current cat company. Follow these ideas and it should go smoothly and beautifully for all.<\/p>\n

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A blog follower asked if I\u2019d cover this topic. I\u2019ve actually written articles on the subject in my other life (as a freelance article-writer), for Cat Fancy Magazine, as I recall. It might still be floating around on the Internet … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3775,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3774\/revisions\/3775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}