Any thoughts on acclimating cats to eachother

I brought a new one home last night.
They are both young (approx 6 mo). Petey (the new guy) is not yet fixed. Cleo is.
So far it isn't going well LOL.

wounds when they attack you.

some suggest separating them with a door, but so they can still smell each other and perhaps swat paws.

Personally, I just put 'em together and let 'em figure it out. It's worked well for me.

Since yours are so young, and already seem to get along, don't worry about it.

but they are young... perhaps with a little time.

I've heard the best thing to do is put the new one in a closed room with ample food and water and a seperate litter box. The original cat will slowly become accustomed to the new cat's scent. This will make for an easier transition.

Or do what I did: Just throw 'em in together in the same house and be patient.

I had a small (about 9 pounds) female tabby kitty all by her lonesome from the time I found her as a stray (less than a year old at that time) until a year ago with no other cats around. That was for about two years I would say. When I met my wife-to-be and she moved up here to Vegas from Phoenix, she brought her two cats with her. They were littermates and both about a year younger than mine, and sadly one of them got away a few months ago and hasn't come back. Anyway, we did our best to keep the cats separate for a few hours that first night, with mine in the bedroom and hers in the front (small one bedroom apartment). But, it soon became apparent that since the bathroom was off the bedroom and not the living room, there was no way to keep all of the kitties apart, so we just let them discover each other and sort it out any way they could. My wife's cats were totally cool about it, but my cat was supremely jealous and territorial for about the first month. We would be lying in bed at night drifting off to sleep and suddenly we'd hear this huge HIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSS from somewhere in the room causing us to laugh hysterically every time.

Over time, though, my cat became more accepting of my wife's cats and eventually they would all curl up together and chase each other around the house out of playfulness. I'm sure your cats will learn to get along very well since they're both young. And, in the unlikely event that they don't become great friends they will still learn to grudgingly tolerate each other out of necessity. Give them time and enjoy the feline fireworks because that whole thing was some of the best memories I have from the past two years other than meeting my wife.

long. Have patience. (BTW, I have six cats and they all came in ones or twos at different times and different ages. They eventually all come to love each other...)

It got so bad I had to declaw them because they were tearing each other apart.

Cats are like people they either bond or they hate each other and their is not much in between when it comes to Cat's.

They pretty much ALL get along together well. Dogs of similar size and dominance level will often clash. But it's pretty rare. Most dog parks are incident free. And when they do clash, it's almost ALWAYS for a split second, then they figure out who is more dominant.

There is no such thing as a CAT park. The Carnage would be cataclismic ;-)

They were both males and one kept trying to hump the other one. The one that was being humped tore into the other one and ripped part of his ear off one time.

It was a constant battle between those two dogs.

I let them spend a little time supervised each day, increasing the time. It does seem like they have to get used to each other's smells over time.

However, when I got the third cat, the first two NEVER liked her.

So your mileage may vary.

My suggestion is to let them figure it out unless one starts beating up on the other one and then you need to reprimand the agressor. Oh on edit best tool for reprimand of any kind with cats....a spray bottle with water, set on stream....good for teaching them to stay off the counters if they don't get the NO hint.

Make sure they both get equal attention and one of the best ways to integrate young cats is give them tasty food or treats and keep moving the bowls or treats closer together each time till they are within a couple of feet. If they eat in the same room they will start tolerating each other better. Nothing like a meal with friends.

Oh yeah fix him as soon as possible.

Feliway makes a pheromone diffuser that mellows kitties and can help with territorial problems. Available thru your veterinarian.

...I would think they'd do okay since they're both pretty young. But as someone (or more than one person pointed out) cats are very territorial, so they need to go through the motions until they get it out of their system and feel "safe." They're also going to hiss and growl to establish a pecking/social order. Once both realize who's on top, they'll accept it.

I have two females, from the same litter, and they bonded as kittens--some kittens pair up within a few weeks, so they're very close. But still they get into their bitchy moods when one thinks the other has gone somewhere the other one thinks is her domain.

they expect you to keep the order. Keep the order.
Where order is not maintained in a compassionate manner there are willful cats.
Once cats become willful you got problems.
I have seen cats that never work it out. Never.
If they roll around when they fight, and sound like they
are not playing - they are not playing.
Over time this gets worse, not better. What appears to
be peaceful co-existence can in fact be a situation where
one or more cat(s) live in constant terror of a bully cat.
If the situation does not improve DO NOT declaw. For any reason.
Choose the cat that has to go and make it so. There are plenty of good homes. When you declaw a cat you transform the perfect killing machine and, more importantly, a trusted companion, into something much less. That trust never returns.

I work with wild cats where these same problems arise
but on a potentially lethal scale. It is interesting how similar
wild cats and the so-called domestic cats truly are.

One of my current cats was at the animal shelter because her original home had acquired one or two too many human and animal inhabitants, and she had become a pariah cat, abused by the others. Her humans correctly understood that she was the one to remove, and I arrived at the shelter 5 days later and took her home. She's been a wonderful cat.

When we got a second one, from our vet, there was a month or so of adjustment. We started with the 2nd kitty in a separate room thing, and it pretty much worked, but would have been better to have kept them apart longer. However, they did finally get used to each other, and play together and sleep fairly close. Occasionally they will both wind up sleeping on top of me, which is fun.

There will be hissing, spitting and growling while they decide who's boss. They always manage to work it out to a certain extent.