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Female cat scared of female kitten
I have a 7 year old, female, spayed cat. the family 2 doors away have a
female cat and 2 female kittens. recently I have noticed that 1 of the kittens, who is about half the size of my cat, keeps chasing my cat off. is it natural that my cat should be scared of a kitten half her size? |
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On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 18:50:25 GMT, "Type Name Here"
wrote: I have a 7 year old, female, spayed cat. the family 2 doors away have a female cat and 2 female kittens. recently I have noticed that 1 of the kittens, who is about half the size of my cat, keeps chasing my cat off. is it natural that my cat should be scared of a kitten half her size? it's the kitten's territory. cat's are very territorial. our cat at home chases off all animals, including dogs. -L |
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"Laila" wrote in message ... On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 18:50:25 GMT, "Type Name Here" wrote: I have a 7 year old, female, spayed cat. the family 2 doors away have a female cat and 2 female kittens. recently I have noticed that 1 of the kittens, who is about half the size of my cat, keeps chasing my cat off. is it natural that my cat should be scared of a kitten half her size? it's the kitten's territory. cat's are very territorial. our cat at home chases off all animals, including dogs. -L the kitten isn't chasing my cat from near the kittens house but from my back garden, front garden and driveway. what I am more surprised about is that my cat runs away from a kitten that is half her size. I could understand her running away from another cat her size. |
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"Type Name Here" wrote in message .uk... "Laila" wrote in message ... On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 18:50:25 GMT, "Type Name Here" wrote: I have a 7 year old, female, spayed cat. the family 2 doors away have a female cat and 2 female kittens. recently I have noticed that 1 of the kittens, who is about half the size of my cat, keeps chasing my cat off. is it natural that my cat should be scared of a kitten half her size? it's the kitten's territory. cat's are very territorial. our cat at home chases off all animals, including dogs. -L the kitten isn't chasing my cat from near the kittens house but from my back garden, front garden and driveway. what I am more surprised about is that my cat runs away from a kitten that is half her size. I could understand her running away from another cat her size. Maybe babies creep her out. Has she had any? |
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"Mary" wrote in message ... "Type Name Here" wrote in message .uk... "Laila" wrote in message ... On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 18:50:25 GMT, "Type Name Here" wrote: I have a 7 year old, female, spayed cat. the family 2 doors away have a female cat and 2 female kittens. recently I have noticed that 1 of the kittens, who is about half the size of my cat, keeps chasing my cat off. is it natural that my cat should be scared of a kitten half her size? it's the kitten's territory. cat's are very territorial. our cat at home chases off all animals, including dogs. -L the kitten isn't chasing my cat from near the kittens house but from my back garden, front garden and driveway. what I am more surprised about is that my cat runs away from a kitten that is half her size. I could understand her running away from another cat her size. Maybe babies creep her out. Has she had any? No. something else that I have thought about it that this kitten used to follow my cat about and even sleep near her in my back garden in summer when my cat would go to sleep in the grass. at the time I thought it was cute, she was almost treating her like her mother. my girlfriend thinks that it might be because: a) our cat is not aggressive at all, neither of us has ever witnessed any aggression from her. if she gets annoyed at to much attention she will just get up and move. b) our cat has grown up without any other cats in the household, the kitten was the 3rd cat introduced into a house that already contained a fully grown cat and a slightly older kitten. so maybe my cat is not used to having to fight and be aggressive where as the kitten may have been bullied by its house mates and "toughened up". she also mentioned to my just known that the guy who owns the kitten has said that at first the kitten was bullied especially by the older kitten, but now it actually bullies the older kitten. so maybe this kitten is just naturally aggressive. I thought that it was male cats that were more aggressive and that female cats didn't really challenge each other. |
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"Type Name Here" wrote in
. uk: I have a 7 year old, female, spayed cat. the family 2 doors away have a female cat and 2 female kittens. recently I have noticed that 1 of the kittens, who is about half the size of my cat, keeps chasing my cat off. is it natural that my cat should be scared of a kitten half her size? Some cats are just non-confrontational, aka "big chickens" -- my Madeline was like that, she just wouldn't assert herself with anyone (other than voles). And some cats are really dominant and terrorize other cats -- one of my friends has the sweetest little dilute tortie who is the terror of the household -- it is incomprehensible to human observers -- she has some talent for making the other cats cower in fear. --Catherine & Rosalie the calicohead |
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