The bengal has been by himself for a year and he has his balls.|||Craziness will ensue.|||there is two options that could happen. the most likely one is that he isent going to eat the cat but just ignore him/her. and the other option is that he is going to eat the little kitty|||Did you mean to say tabby kitten? I can see some real dangers, since he is intact. And in itself uncommon, since most bengal kittens that are sold are fixed, since breeders make sure they don't have competition. And you stated he was intact.
Success will happen with the proper method of introductions, so read up and see which would work for you.
But being that he is a bengal, my advice would be to not do it.|||Ok......first of all, the male cat will most certainly NOT eat the little female cat!
Your male cat may hiss, growl and spit because males are dominant and he will see this little cutie as an intruder. My suggestion is to keep the new cat in a carrier when introducing her to your other cat. Then, keep the female in separate room until the cats get used to the smell of each other. Do you have a baby gate you can put across the door way to a room? This way, the cats can get used to the sight and smell of eachother with the gate as a protective barrier. Give it time! They may get along with eachother after a while (days or weeks) or they simply may not. Considering you are bringing in a younger female, rather than another male cat, (which could intimidate dominancy for the other male) they should be able to get along fine with eachother eventually. Just remember to keep lavishing attention on the male cat so he doesn't get jealous of the new one. Hope this helps. Take care and God bless.
P.S. I have 6 cats..........1 male and 5 females.
Bengal??? Oh, I didn't see that one. I don't know the tempermant of bengals, so you may want to check with a professional breeder about this one.......sorry.|||Cats don't eat each other, and at such young ages they'll be fine.|||Much will depend on the temperment of the male. He may be a "one-cat-household" kind of guy. I have 7 cats, 6 of which are males and 1 female. In my experience, the males seems to adapt to other cats better than females. (I had 2 females once and will never do it again!)
When you bring her in at first, keep her in another room for the first few days. Let them sniff each other's scent through the crack under the door, but don't allow them physical contact. After a few days, open the door for 30 minutes or so and stay where you can monitor things. Allow either to explore each other and territory. A little hissing is normal, even though it may sound very alarming to you.
In the meantime, be sure to give your male cat lots of attention and affection so he knows that he's not being "replaced." Each day, open the door and allow them to sniff, hang out or play together - extend the periods of time and don't force a friendship.
Oh, and get him fixed before you bring her in. The minute one of them goes in heat, you'll have kittens - I guarantee that. It wouldn't hurt to have them both fixed at the same time so that they are healing at the same time and she's resting when he is, instead of trying to get him to play when he shouldn't be.
When you introduce two cats, you really never can tell what kind of results you will get. The last cat I brought in was a year old. I tried the usual method that I described to you above, and one of my other boys cats had gotten the bedroom door open within 20 minutes and was in there sniffing the new guy out. They got along fine from the get-go. With my other cats, there was some hissing at first, but that died down after a few days. The oddest relationship formed between the new cat, a black long-hair, and one of the other boy cats, also a black long-hair. They go between playing like crazy, chasing each other all over the house, to sleeping side-by-side, to fighting like they're going to tear each other's heads off. As long as nobody's getting injured (and none of my stuff is getting broken), I let them go at it. Boys will be boys, I guess.
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