Cat Question, please help.?
Thursday, February 11th, 2010 at
7:01 am
My family has two cats and last Christmas, we bought them a cat tower. One cat is a large male and another is a small female, a year older than the male. Both have the same mother. The female cat likes the smaller, top "bed", since it is suited for her size. However, the male cat almost always jumps up to the top where she is sleeping, bites her neck, though he does not hurt her, and then forces her off. Why does he do this and is there a way we can stop this from happening? Thank you and please help.
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He’s expressing his dominance over her. That’s the entire point of his act. Unfortunately, there’s not much you can do. You could try disciplining him whenever he does that, but it’s really hard to train a cat to not do a conditional behavior. (Getting him to understand that his instinctive dominance power plays aren’t acceptable is tricky. He won’t understand that it’s ok for him to use the smaller bed, but NOT ok for him to kick his sister out of it.)
As long as he’s not hurting her, let nature take its course. If the fights become too mean or vicious, then you’ll need to step in and break it up.
sounds like a domination thing and there is probably nothing you can do, I am guessing that even if you buy another tower the cat will still do the same thing!
He is bigger, so he is probably the dominant cat. As long as he isn’t hurting her, then I wouldn’t worry about it.
My grandma’s cats act that way sometimes. The dominant one sometimes hogs the litter box. lol
because he’s the male and even though he’s younger he wants to feel dominant. just you wait if she ever gets pregnent shes gonna give him hell.
it does not matter that they share a mother. there cats with natural instincts,