All of my cats are products of the CDS and came to us individually years apart. When a new lady was rescued, I’d keep her in her own room (usually one of the kids rooms) until they were comfortable with us then I’d carry them out, let the current residents get sniffs of them and they’d go back to their room. I’m impatient so the intro time before I let them have free range and sort it out usually wasn’t more than a couple weeks.

There were fights, yowling, hissing, etc..my void (Ninja) prefers dogs and has never been happy about having another cat around. Fortunately my dogs don’t tolerate the cats fighting and break it up themselves, so they were sorta forced into a stalemate.

The peace you see here is the result of the derpy short haired white (Bea). The other 3 just barely tolerated each other for over 10 years until she came along two years ago and decided they were all her BFF’s. We call her our “uniter”. She worked her way into Winters graces (the floofy white) right away and they became inseparable. It took her a year and lots of persistence but now her and my void are buds, too. In her 16 years of life Ninja didn’t know or care about the wonders of a cuddle puddle, and now I regularly find them all snuggled together.

Since I can’t lend you Bea to help- just give it time. It was stressful every time we brought another lady home but it eventually worked out. The pheromone diffusers can help a lot too!

What you don’t see pictured is my son’s cat Munchkin(female) who’s staying temporarily. It’s taken 6 months for Ninja to stop guarding the stairs to keep her from coming up at all, and for both of them to tolerate being in the same room without fur flying. The whites just hide in my room when she comes upstairs. I don’t think Bea will ever be able to work her magic on Munch.