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My cats are fighting lots - down to the kitten?
GobbledyGook
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I'm after some advice.
I have 2 big cats who are around 10 or 11 years old. They are brothers and although they've lived with different owners through their years they've always lived together.
I also have a 6 month old kitten who came to us when she was tiny. She was spayed 3 weeks ago.
Now one of my cats is quite a serious cat, for the want of a better phrase. He doesn't chase toys on sticks - only live mice. He doesn't really 'play' much. The other is, and always has been, an overgrown kitten. He'll chase anything, tear up and down the stairs for hours and jump and climb all day long then laze by the heater all night.
When the kitten was first introduced serious cat did not like her at all. Eventually though he accepted that she was here, but has never particularly seemed to like her. He'll give her a nip if she gets too close or too rowdy.
Mad cat (also known as fat cat) loves her. They tear about the place together, groom each other and he seems to have taught her some appropriate cat behaviour with little nips when she was being too much (her mother died when she was tiny so I don't think she really was taught about socialisation much). He also taught her to use our little box, by literally lifting her in his mouth mid-poo and carrying her :rotfl: He's lost lots of weight from not being as lazy in the evenings and she seems to have done him the world of good.
So all was well......
Except this week my big two have done nothing, but scrap. The only change has been that she was !!!! away from them for a week because of her op wound (she also had a hernia repaired at the same time so had a big-ish wound) and is now back. My friend has had to take Mad cat to the vet today for me because serious cat has bitten him quite badly on his paw.
Do I need to re-introduce her to them? Or is it just a fluke that it's happened now? Help please?
I have 2 big cats who are around 10 or 11 years old. They are brothers and although they've lived with different owners through their years they've always lived together.
I also have a 6 month old kitten who came to us when she was tiny. She was spayed 3 weeks ago.
Now one of my cats is quite a serious cat, for the want of a better phrase. He doesn't chase toys on sticks - only live mice. He doesn't really 'play' much. The other is, and always has been, an overgrown kitten. He'll chase anything, tear up and down the stairs for hours and jump and climb all day long then laze by the heater all night.
When the kitten was first introduced serious cat did not like her at all. Eventually though he accepted that she was here, but has never particularly seemed to like her. He'll give her a nip if she gets too close or too rowdy.
Mad cat (also known as fat cat) loves her. They tear about the place together, groom each other and he seems to have taught her some appropriate cat behaviour with little nips when she was being too much (her mother died when she was tiny so I don't think she really was taught about socialisation much). He also taught her to use our little box, by literally lifting her in his mouth mid-poo and carrying her :rotfl: He's lost lots of weight from not being as lazy in the evenings and she seems to have done him the world of good.
So all was well......
Except this week my big two have done nothing, but scrap. The only change has been that she was !!!! away from them for a week because of her op wound (she also had a hernia repaired at the same time so had a big-ish wound) and is now back. My friend has had to take Mad cat to the vet today for me because serious cat has bitten him quite badly on his paw.
Do I need to re-introduce her to them? Or is it just a fluke that it's happened now? Help please?
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It could just be coincidence, serious cat may have felt ill, mad cat may have taken his bad mood at being separated from his new best friend out on serious cat, though.
Keep an eye on them, but I wouldn't keep new cat away from them in case it made matters worse, as they are just about getting back to how things should be.I could dream to wide extremes, I could do or die: I could yawn and be withdrawn and watch the world go by.Yup you are officially Rock n Roll
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