Sicy said:
Yay! Congrats! Are they boys or girls? If one is a boy and one is a girl ... well you know what you have to do asap..
Did you do all your research on bringing home new cats?
They will hide for a while until they get used to the environment. Just make sure to stick their food water and litterbox in the room they're staying in. And let them get used to the house room by room / little by little. Ohh how exciting!
They're both girls -- sisters from the same litter.
Biscuit is ginger and Jasmine is a tortie. I think we'll keep the names they were given because they seem to know them.
It was a bit stressful bringing them home last night. Sam hadn't driven in two years, and were on these tiny country roads in the dark. Biscuit did really well, but Jasmine got nervous and had diarrhea, so we had to try to wipe her clean in the bathroom as well as we could when we got home. When we tried to take her upstairs, she bolted, and Sam got a claw to the face.
We've got them set up in the guest bedroom now. They seem to be okay now, just very scared! Neither has shown ANY signs of aggression (even when stressed), but they're very shy and nervous cats. I put treats all over the room last night to encourage them to explore, and when I came in this morning to check on them, all the treats were gone (including the ones on the bed and on the windowsill), and they'd finished all of their food and water and used their tray, but they were still cowering under the futon. It's like having magic little elves that we never see.
We got a massive cat tree yesterday (
This one, but we didn't pay anywhere near that amount!), and started to set up when we discovered that one of the stabilising pieces for one of the bases is missing, so we've got to take it all apart again and exchange it today. I also need to buy a brush and comb and some more food (the women we got them from gave us the rest of the bag of the food she'd been feeding them).