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Anonymous
when you do finally bring them in, do not bring them face to face with your cats for a couple weeks. keep them in the bathroom or other shut-up room, separate from your normal cats. They should have their own food, their own litterbox, etc.
during these two weeks, two things should happen:
you should take them to the vet and get them de-wormed, treat for ear mites, tested for feline leukemia and rabies.. and whatever else the vet suggests.
also during these two weeks, the cats will get to know one another through the crack under the door. they'll sniff, play, etc. and get used to one another.. this minimizes the chance of "house full of pissed off cats" syndrome that happens when you immediately introduce a new cat to a house.
I had an indoor/outdoor cat that actually left us for a neighbor when we inherited our grandmother's cat.
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