Babysitting cat who is scared of out of the room time

[Karen]

Does he play at all? If he can start playing with a toy with you in "his" room, that might be a good distraction when he comes outside the room, and get him focussed and more confident! Particularly those "fishing pole" type toys can be very very tempting! Other than that, do you put things with the other cats' scent on them in his room from time to time, so he can get used to them?

[DriftyAlison0]

Yeah we have a toy for him that I will use and as for the other cat scents before he came, they used the room at time so there should be stuff with their scent but I will get stuff for it too. Thanks for the advice. I don't want to start the introductions before we can conquer this.

[Karen]

Yup, play and "successful hunting" will help bring him out of his shell, and patience! I agree, you want him to be more secure before he interacts with the others, so they don't think of him as prey - "if I attack it will run away, how fun!"

[krazyaboutkatz]

You might also want to try feeding or giving treats to all of the cats at the same time in the same room. If you've ever watched the series "My Cat From Hell", the cat behaviorist has had owners do this with cats that didn't get along and it's worked out well. Good luck.