u/CyberDevil-

I'm still very early on in the journey to introducing a kitten to my residential young adult cat and have made a post previously. I've been seeing minor improvements here and there, and decided to find out more information about the young adult cat who was a rescue cat.

Turns out my residential cat's littermates passed very early on and she was the only survivor. Her mom had previous litters and she had interactions with those cats but they often were very rough with her. She also had a dog in her prior environment that bullied her. So overall no positive socialization with other cats/animals other than maybe her mom.

I can see why she has anxiety now that she's a young adult. But now I'm worried that she's never going to warm up to my newly adopted kitten. I was hoping her having a friend would ease her anxiety, but I'm worried it's just triggering her because of her past.

Again, I'm only a week and a half in and I'm seeing tiny tiny improvements but she still seems very uncomfortable with the whole situation. The kitten is sleeping/staying in a very small space (as much as I can offer her) and then taken out for a few hours a day in a large playpen to be able to run and play. I don't want the kitten to feel cooped up and I don't want the residential cat to feel triggered and unhappy.

Is there hope that eventually she can overcome her past? I'm really hoping they can be friends, or at least tolerate each other without seriously fighting.

I recently bleached and redyed my hair with iroiro pink. I feel like it ended up a bit on the orange/salmon tone despite lifting to a level 10 with no orange. I left iroiro pink on for about 4 hours.

I'm looking to get a hot magenta color with more of cool undertones. So I decided to try and counteract this with iroiro plum as most people tend to get a hot cooler toned magenta from it from my research. I only left it on for about 1 hour. After washing it out and seeing it on damp hair, it turned out the color i wanted.

Now that my hair is bone dry its this darker wine/berry/reddish color?? I'm still new to dying my hair but now I'm not sure what I should do now. I'm stuck between doing a bleach bath and going back in with either a mix of iroiro pink and plum, or doing a bleach bath and trying to cover with arctic fox virgin pink. Maybe if I do a bleach bath for a few minutes it'll lighten to the color I want? I have an event in 2 days that I wanted my hair to look perfect for so I'm not sure if fading will be the best option.

I know it seems like I'm being extra and picky but you can definitely tell the shade differences in person I promise 😭 especially in the shade, my pink looks almost black. Maybe iroiro pinks are too orange toned for my hair and I need to switch over to AF virgin pink?

How do you know your cat isn't meant to have a friend?

How to achieve this shade of pink??