I have no experience so sorry I cannot offer any advice.

However, there are 6 videos I have seen on YouTube that a guy has done on introducing a new kitten to two cats Bengals and they may offer you some help. In the videos the guy makes a lot of observations regarding the cats' posturing - e.g. sometimes although there is hissing, the ears are not down and the cats' body language is very important. Try searching "introducing new kitten to bengal" or "Chatzi".

Hope this helps

Lisa
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It's going to take some time for these cats to get used to each other. The resident kitty is upset that her turf has been invaded by this tiny, crying monster. I don't know what behaviorists say about this, but it's just letting the cats get used to each other without killing each other. There's no easy fix. It's just patience and time. Slowly, they should get used to each other, however, the more you have them separated, the longer this is going to take.

Hi there. I agree with these replies - take a look on youtube for various introduction sessions so you are familiar with the postures etc they adopt. I suspect you might be intervening a little early. The hard fact of the matter is that they need to sort out dominance and agree ground rules with each other. There is generally more noise than actual full-on fighting. A lot of the fighting is testing the strength and determination of the other. If you never allow this to play out they still don't really know where they stand.

It's a good thing you have them interacting in the cage - and not always negatively. And good that they have both been with you long enough to probably know the other one isn't going away.

So, I suggest you leave them for longer to see if they can sort it out. They are unlikely to cause major injury - step in only if you think that is happening, rather than it just might happen because of all the growling and tumbling. If you can't watch, walk away for a bit. It looks and sounds worse than it is.

I know this is hard. I introduced a younger cat years ago, and the noise was shocking. Never an injury though. For several years these two cats seemed to loathe each other, often waiting hours to ambush the other. They never played games or slept together, BUT when the older one died, the younger one spent days walking around the house cyring for her. Turned out they had sorted out a relationship of studied indifference, peppered with occassional play fighting. And she missed her!

Good luck

I like the video you guys are talking about. It's well-made and insightful and enjoyable to watch, but it really does paint a pretty rosy picture of perhaps a "best case scenario" of a bengal being introduced to two adult cats. If you think about it, all the guy does is sit back and watch the cats and make commentary on why he really doesn't need to do anything but sit on his behind and let the camera roll And we never really do see what he did, if anything, to get the kitten and his adult bengal to "play nice", or what the resolution is to that tension. So I'm really not sure how helpful that is to this situation here.

If it were me, I would not keep either cat in a cage. I'm not saying it wrong, just that I wouldn't be able to do it. I guess the one thing that I've read behaviorists say to do, that you haven't mentioned, is to try to create positive associations between the two cats with treats and favorite meals and such. Make it so that each time they meet, something good happens, and is expected to happen.

But it's not easy. I know. I think you just have to keep alternating between brief introduction attempts and cooldown periods until things improve, all the while re-assuring both cats and making sure neither is too upset.

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I'm in a similar position and I can say it that you are obviously doing what ever you can and have done the research, all cats are different and those videos might work for those cats but not my 2.

It's been 4 weeks now and my little boy (Bengal) 12 weeks has won the mind battle over my 2yo DLH, still cannot leave them together as there's lots of growling and snorting from 2yo
I do see a light at the end of the tunnel just will take time, how much is anyone's guess.
Good luck and keep us posted

Dave

Thanks all for the responses, will get a chance to watch watch the recommened videos tonight and will progress from there one step at a time!

will keep you updated :)

It sounds like your intervening a little bit too early to me. Don't worry though, I was EXACTLY the same, you see something and you think x is going to happen, but unless you let it happen, you don't know if it'll be x or y. haha I really hope I'm making sense here?

My two girls, I ended up just letting them get on with it, sat down (very tensely) and I got up, if I thought it was getting too rough, but at the end of the day, they also pick up on the stress and worry.

Within days they where cuddled up on the sofa, not always how it will turn out, but I'm glad with how it did. Even now, they're pretty much inseparable, but they will still go mental, play fight and scream (I do intervene now and again) but it's normal, they still go for each others throats, but that's a dominance thing and unless i hear screaming, i leave them, they have to learn who's boss.

Do they both have "safe" places? Have you let the kitten explore the house without the older cat in the nearby. Putting the older cat in the kitten room while the kitten explores will give the kitten a chance to suss out hiding places and give the older cat a chance to check out the "new kitten smell" all over everything.

If they will be in the same room together, let them be. The key is to work your way up from short periods of time and keep them busy with new toy, food, etc. The last cat I introduced to the crew below was a Bengal. I didn't trust her out in the house or with the other cats at night or whenI wasn't home for about six weeks after we got some medical issues cleared up. There will be some little scrapes but letting them truly fight (puffy tail, flat ears, yowling and spitting) will just lead to more aggression between the two, in my opinion.

I have never tried the cage thing but it must be frustrating for both to be confined like that and watch another cat mark up your house or be where you want to be?