New kitten in a house where a older cat use to live.

I'm having a hard time. My cat use to live here in this house but then moved away with my ex. I recently got a new kitten. Now my Ex needs to bring the cat back because she can't take her.  Now the old cat is back but there is a new kitten in here and she is not happy. What do I do? I feel bad putting the old cat up but she is hissing an growling at the kitten. What do I do?

Hello - I'm sorry to hear about your dilemma.   It sounds frustrating and difficult for everyone.  Cats are not as well evolved for group living as dogs and people are; even cats that rub along together well in a house like to have their own separate territory within it.  You can help by watching carefully to figure out whether the territories are for each cat, and putting each cats' resources on their own territory.  Valued resources for cats include food bowls, toileting sites (or doors to get to an outdoor toileting site) and water.  If a cat has to walk across anothers' terrotory to get to these things, ruptions often arise.  Therefore, carefully thinking through the positions of bowls, beds etc can be very important.   However, rehoming may be necessary and if this is the case, then kittens are easier and more happily rehomed than older cats.

I think that, as humans, we have tendencies to label one animal as a bully and one as the innocent; however in reality, cats' boundary issues are as complex. Cats rarely choose to live together - the old cat came home and found another cat using her space.  Through her eyes, she is not being amoral; she is simply defending her valued resource, her territory, from an uninvited invader.

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