May as well post about the new kitty. This is Shade.
We got her because she belonged to my brother but he got evicted. (Long story I don't want to go into) This was one of the two cats he had. Couldn't take both, but we opted to take Shade here.
She's very sweet, very talkative. Loves laser pointers, and blows my mind that she'll eat her dry food no problem. But ignores all wet food and even tuna. I've NEVER met a cat that doesn't go for tuna before.
I know from my brothers she was a rescue. The sad thing is whoever had her before her rescue (IE Not my brother) had her declawed the poor thing.
Right now we are doing the ever EVER so slow task of trying to get our old cat Rally to accept the new cat.
Stupidly I didn't read up on anything before bringing her in (It was also very sudden given the whole eviction thing) so we didn't really do what most people suggest and try to ease them into each other's smells before they see each other. They are VERY much aware the other exists. Thankfully my room is the basement, so we've blocked off the top of the stairs with a pet gate she can't jump over, and let her walk up there and allow Rally to HOPEFULLY slowly get used to her.
Shade has been in multi cat homes before so she has no issues with Rally at all. RALLY on the other hand will hiss and run away. Though she seems to be getting better? She can be found looking down the stairs for Shade on multiple occasions, and we got some treats to calm her down when Shade is near. Even got Rally to play with a laser pointer with Shade near by on the other side of the gate, so fingers crossed.