OT: NEW KITTY! Pics inside.

Ok so, I had this entire post written out and pictures posted and the kitten decided to jump on my keyboard and went back several pages and I lost the entire post! Anyway, my boyfriend and I adopted a new kitty. His name is Binx but we call him Binxy. He's adorable and I love him! Last night I was trying to do school work and he was climbing all over me like a nut job so I got this brilliant idea and this is how it turned out:

This is over 4 hours. I managed to get all my work done without being interrupted!

Also, if anyone has tips on bringing a kitten into a house with two grown cats let me know. My kitties are adjusting quite well, faster than I expected, but if anyone has any advice I welcome it since I've never done this before. My girls are sisters and have been together since day one.

A dog never would have done that to you!

haha our landlord doesn't allow them :( 

I'm a volunteer adoption counselor at an animal shelter and we always advise to keep them apart for as long as possible so the kitten gets comfortable in the new surroundings and to try to make any meeting organic and not forced ...

Binx is very sweet and it's so nice that you adopted a black kitten.   We have over 600 cats and kittens in our shelter in the moment and despite having special offers (BOGO, free if they're over a year old etc), we get so few adopted out - particularly black kittens/cats because of stupid superstitions!

I know! The place we rescued him from is actually run by a good friend of my aunt's in Queens, NY (my bf and I live in PA). She said they didn't adopt out any cats at all during the month of October because of Halloween. We were actually seeking out a black cat for this reason. I can't believe people... ugh I can't even think about it, it makes me sick.    This little guy is fearless and he seems quite comfy and happy here. We aren't trying to force anything though. He just does his thing romping around the house and the other two cats just go about their business, which really just means they sleep for hours on our bed. We have a Russian Blue and she's been very curious about him. I've let the girls in the office to sniff around and the Russian Blue will sit downstairs and watch him play from a distance. When he gets too close she would hiss but not a mean 'I want to rip your face off' hiss, her ears aren't pinned down or anything. I think it's just a 'hey back off for now' kind of thing. Although, they have come nose to nose 3 times today on their own for about 10 seconds, then he hops away. lol He doesn't seem phased by the other cats at all. He loves playing with the bed skirt on our bed so when we let him out he makes a bee line for the bedroom to play. My biggest concern was for the tabby... she wouldn't leave the bedroom at all yesterday... she just hung out on the bed... even when the little guy was in the office. She was fine as long as he was on the floor but when she would actually see him (like if we picked him up to bring him out of the room) she would grumble. I was worried because she wasn't eating or drinking or using the litter box. When my boyfriend came home last night from work she was asleep with me in the bed and he picked her up and brought her downstairs to the room we keep her litter box in and plopped her down. She used the box and came upstairs to eat. I think that's what she needed to realize that she still had run of the house, even with the little guy here. She's been out and about today so I feel a lot better.    Anywho, thanks for listening and for the advice! haha

He is such a doll!

He is precious!

What a beautiful boy he is!  You are going to have a blast with him.

You can find good articles on integrating the new kitten into the household at ddfl.org and catsinternational.org. Give Binx an ear skritch for me.

Thanks! I will check them out! I gave him some lovin' for ya!

Oohhh, how cute!  Most of the time, when I've brought in a new kitten or cat, the older ones got used to the newbie pretty quickly.  Sometimes quicker than others.  I would make sure to give the older ones plenty of attention.  Sometimes an older cat that is mad about a new cat will pee on stuff, like once I got a new cat and the old cat didn't like the new cat sleeping in the guest bed even though he never slept there himself, so he took to peeing on the bed.  I ended up keeping the door to the guest room closed for about a month, and by then they were good buddies, so I opened the door again and there was no more peeing on the bed.  I let them hiss at each other and stuff, as long as they aren't actually fighting and hurting each other.  Usually one of the older cats will announce that he is the boss of the house and usually the new cat agrees to that arrangement, and then they at least tolerate each other OK.  I would make sure there are at least two litter boxes, so the old cats can't keep the new cat from getting to the box, and at least two water dishes, so the old cats can't block the new cat from getting to the water.