hello,

we are trying to introduce a new cat (grey) to the resident cats (one pictured playing with toy).  We managed to get through the eating together with ease, but are having difficulty introducing in the same room. Sometimes they are fine, and do not seem to care about the other and other times they are hard to manage. We have started using feliway which has not yet yielded results. The new cat is getting along well with the other resident cat at this point so we are only worrying about the other resident cat. 

We play with both cats when they are out and tend to stop them when they seem to focus on each other. It has been weeks of this now. Due to seeing some progress we occasionally let them interact to see where they are at, if it looks too intense or there is too much hissing or growling we stop. Today we were feeling defeated and wanted to see if there was any chance they could be trusted to mind their business. This was not the case, and they ended up fighting, we let it happen to film and then immediately stopped it from progressing. They are pretty gentle, none has made the other bleed, but we don’t want it to get worse. 

we are looking for advice, should we start over completely? is having a high energy male cat too much for the two female residents? they are all about the same age (1.5 to 3yo). We are very lost and not having any kind of measurable improvement to work off of has made it more difficult to know where we are going wrong, especially since the progress was so tangible in the beginning. 

any advice would be helpful, please be constructive! thank you

Cat Introduction Help