we only have 2 bedrooms. I was thinking that our bedroom would definitely make one or the other jealous...

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Then keep it simple. Think it thru and put the most "mellow" of the two in your room.

Tackle it in two phases. Get them used to the house first over a week or two isolated in their own "safe" rooms, if needed, then get them used to each other. Play it safe and start from scratch getting them used to each other when they are used to the house after a few days.

1. Let one out at a time to investigate the house (they'll probably smell each other).

2. Still rub the towels on them -- even tho they kind of have been smelling each other. I don't think it will help overmuch that they have smelled each other. They will be off balance with the new house and then meeting eachother...your situation adds two stressers in rather than just one...

3. One thing I thougth of since this is unique and one doesn't have previous full run of the house... You could also swap rooms a week or so after they seem comfortable in the house, before you let them really meet. They'd really smell each other in the rooms they have been staying in for a week or so. It'll also get them used to that room safely.

4. When they do meet face-to-face, I'd do it with one in a carrier -- in a community room -- not one of the bedrooms they have been staying in.

Slow and steady will win this race. It will seem like forever if it takes a couple weeks isolating them and then a couple weeks slowly integrating them, but it will pay off. Time and again you see folks have problems integrating if they just drop a cat/dog in the middle of the living room and let them all figure it out on their own. Yours especially will be doubly freaked. Their home they always new is gone (first problem to tackle) and then there is a new cat to get used to...
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Tammy
Stanley and Pookey

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