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<blockquote data-quote="Zizzler" data-source="post: 2352164" data-attributes="member: 813432"><p>I am adopting my parents&#039; cat because their house is getting foreclosed on and where they are moving cats are not allowed. However, this cat is old (8 to 10 yro) and can be cranky and with my parents&#039; dog when she is rough with him. I am not worried about him hurting my puppy because he is declawed and usually just paws at my parents&#039; dog when she is being overly excited with him. Kinda get my drift as to why I am concerned about this transition? I am just so stressed about him being stressed or my puppy being stressed and I don&#039;t know what to do. I do not want to let my childhood cat go to a rescue where he will likely not get adopted due to his age and then likely be put down or live the rest of his life in a shelter. I will not trust a stranger on craigslist or classified ads to take him either because I cannot ensure he will be loved and properly taken care of in his final years. I would rather jump off a cliff than give him up and I have already asked friends if they would like a loving cuddle-bunny of a cat. How can I make this a good transition into my home w/ my 5 month old puppy? I repeat, my cat is NOT going to a rescue and I am determined to make this work, please help. Any suggestions for transitioning him into my home will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Zizzler, post: 2352164, member: 813432"] I am adopting my parents' cat because their house is getting foreclosed on and where they are moving cats are not allowed. However, this cat is old (8 to 10 yro) and can be cranky and with my parents' dog when she is rough with him. I am not worried about him hurting my puppy because he is declawed and usually just paws at my parents' dog when she is being overly excited with him. Kinda get my drift as to why I am concerned about this transition? I am just so stressed about him being stressed or my puppy being stressed and I don't know what to do. I do not want to let my childhood cat go to a rescue where he will likely not get adopted due to his age and then likely be put down or live the rest of his life in a shelter. I will not trust a stranger on craigslist or classified ads to take him either because I cannot ensure he will be loved and properly taken care of in his final years. I would rather jump off a cliff than give him up and I have already asked friends if they would like a loving cuddle-bunny of a cat. How can I make this a good transition into my home w/ my 5 month old puppy? I repeat, my cat is NOT going to a rescue and I am determined to make this work, please help. Any suggestions for transitioning him into my home will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. :) [/QUOTE]

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