Thread: To Get Ripley a little friend?

I had big problems with feliway {posts on here somewhere....!!!!!} & quite honestly at the moment I wouldn't worry too much it isn't as if both parties are freaking out with each other,agree about crossing the smells{had put smalls but luckily noticed} as soon as you can both feline & human,since loosing China who was our "night nannie" with babes until we felt they could go in together we have used a pen for babe & put them in the same room as the others but Billy wasn't going to have that thank you so let him get on with it,heard hisssing from Ruby during the night but six furries went to bed & six furries came out in one piece the next morning.
Looking forward to the photos & even more of them both together.....xxx

Okay, thanks for the heads up, will pass on the feliway action.
Latest update is Ripley has come down for food okay(stairs lead in to the living which leads in to the kitchen where her food is) and hasn't shown any problems eating, or around us. But she has spent a little longer each time in the living room staring at the kitten and then running away, but she only runs on to the stairs(which has a solid door). At the begining of the day she wouldn't move from the top step (unless to our bedroom) but now she is tending to sit a couple of stairs up, and stares intently at kitten from there.

That's progress, I'm sure it's good that she is coming further and further down the stairs. Me and Matt have been going about business as usual and just doing what we normally would.
I got a little towel which I made smell of ripley and I gave it to Kitten who proceeded to bite play and roll about in. Am yet to give it back to Ripley though.

Here are a couple of pictures of the little mite...

awwww! how can Ripley not fall for that adorable little face! ;-)

That baby kitty is so adorable! I want to cuddle it =^..^=

Ripley hasn't even come for her food this morning. She poked her head around the door on the staircase for a while watched kitten then kitten jumped off the sofa and Ripley scarpered upstairs and hasn't been down since.
We've spent all morning acting normal and when we've had to go up stairs we would give her the same amount of fuss as normal, so I'm not sure but it seems like we are going backwards :-(

she's sulking huh? :-( I think she'll come down when she's hungry enough - if I had any experience in the matter I'd say stay the course, she'll get over it once she starts considering kitten as part of the furniture....
btw is kitten a Maine Coon as well? she doesn't look it, but....

She's still not been down for food and hasn't even been down to investigate in hours. A lot of googling comes up with if the resident cat hides away, they will come down when they are hungry enough.
I guess we will give it to the end of tomorrow if there is no progress and Ripley still isn't coming downstairs we will have to ask the guy to collect her, I understand these things can take days and weeks for any kind of interaction but if after 2 days Ripley isn't eating or going to the toilet because of this kitten then surely that's not right?
But I want to be proved wrong, I would love for this kitten to stay and I want to give it all a shot. I don't want to be someone who gives up easily, but I also don't know when 'enough is enough' for Ripley being put out. Any further advice/reassurance from anyone to know if we are doing the right things?

Thinking maybe about putting kitten in her caged crate thing and bringing Ripley down again so she can see and sniff again while she is in the cage but not sure if that is going too far backward? Have also given Ripley my hoodie which has had kitten smell all over it since yesterday, see if that helps at all

No the kitten isn't maine coon, just a standard domestic kitty.

You still are not giving this situation long enough to resolve itself, Ruby has only just started coming back into the sitting room at nights with us all & that is three months on she took up residence on a bed down the hall,you being at home for this week most probaly isn't helping either as most probaly if they were on their own all day Ripley would more likely have snucked out for a peek without loosing face,feed them seperate places for a while until she gets used to babe,allow her another tray somewhere where she can pee without having to worry about babe intruding in her space.... my daughters older MC still hisses at the second one years on but if you sneak a look in the window they are laying cuddled up but by the time you get in Crystal is the other end of the sofa looking at him in disgust,come on mum you left me with him,how could you..... MC's are the cleverest of cats at playing up to your sympathies.
Quick run down of our MC lifes number 1 retired breeding queen that didn't like other cats but risked getting kitten fine,second babe comes along {sister to other kitten} fine all sleep together no probs,4th babe joins,nightmare brother & sister hate him 1st cat is nightnurse to him she is fine but other two we couldn't believe how upset they were the hissing & growling turned them into wild cats so a few nights after last babe tipped up we put them altogether for sleeping & during the day wondered if life would ever settle but it did so had two more babes join the family & the worst one with them was babe no 4,he seemed to forget how the others had been to him either that or he thought he would do payback,once again nightnurse slept with babes for a few days before putting them altogether but NO4 was not going to accept them especially the brown tabby boy so off we went on another few weeks of hissing not wanting to know but eventually peace reigned again then fist MC passed over to Rainbow Bridge so decided to have MC no 7 did worry about it as nightnurse wasn't with us but put her straight into a cage in their room at nights & the two bruvs took over looking after her during the day no problems at all,bliss,like the first three we had but then nasty shock babe 4 decided Rainbow Bridge was calling him too so too young for us to loose him & too quickly he left us so once again going down to five MC's didn't seem right so got babe no 8 to round numbers up again to six & babe No 7 took offence big time she hated him in such a way we couldn't believe he ignored her which was good & if she ran up to him he would fall flat on his back & put his paws up saying I submit,we did have to get hard with her a couple of weeks in as she would make him submit then walk away & as he went to get up she would spin round at him & he would be flat on his back again poor little thing so in the end decided enough was enough so told her to leave him it must have been well over the month before she would even go close to him but she was still growling & hissing even if he came into the same room as her but now they are starting to play & chase each other but if you notice they enjoying each others company she will stop hiss & make him submit again,the latest thing though is he has started standing up for himself & will chase her & you can see she is actually enjoying it but the noise she makes is horrendous ear plugs the order of the day but once again we know that peace will come to the household at some point & through the downs we still have great fun with our furry family & know jolly well that there will be far more ups..... & as I have said in another thread today this from a non cat person.......
At the end of the day if you do feel though that you can't get through the initial settling in period then you have to do what is right for you & Ripley but I would nearly lay a bet she would miss the babe even at this stage if she hated it that much she wouldn't have hid up she would have attacked & yes that can happen & you know you are onto a looser.....xxxx

Jackie, WOW! You have a lot of cat experience! I am thinking about a kitty, just don't know if I can deal with the drama. Ginger is a handful. But maybe a friend is what she needs?