How can I get my younger cat to stop attacking my older cat?!
Question: The younger one (Scarlet) was 3 last month, and the older one (Faith) is 15... Faith is very kind, loving and very gentle... Scarlet is a little abrasive, bratty and aggressive... I don't know what to do. I've had Scarlet for over 2 years, and I've had Faith for her entire life (found her when she was 4wks. old)... I won't get rid of either of them, but I've afraid it's too late to change Scarlet's behavior towards Faith. I don't know what to do... Help!
All answers appreciated.
Answers: The younger one (Scarlet) was 3 last month, and the older one (Faith) is 15... Faith is very kind, loving and very gentle... Scarlet is a little abrasive, bratty and aggressive... I don't know what to do. I've had Scarlet for over 2 years, and I've had Faith for her entire life (found her when she was 4wks. old)... I won't get rid of either of them, but I've afraid it's too late to change Scarlet's behavior towards Faith. I don't know what to do... Help!
All answers appreciated.
Try using a squirt bottle and every time Scarlet attacks Faith, squirt Scarlet...
Just be careful not to squirt Faith... :)
put them in a seperate room
keep them apart
Get rid of them both.
make deal between them who behave well get rewarded
try and calm her down, younger cats need to be active, but if you teach her to calm down then she may stop attacking the other cat
Spray the kitten with water each time she attacks the older cat.
You know, you can't and shouldn't. My older dog used to lie around. then we got a puppy. Now there is new life breathed into him. They play ALL DANG DAY LONG. Biting, play biting, jumping, running, being dogs. She breathed new life into the older one.
I know!!! Very Carefully...
nothing will work. I have 2 cats at my parent's house and they've never gotten along in the 6 years that they've lived together.
I'm having the same problem with 3 of my cats.
Get a squirt gun and squirt Scarlet whenever she acts aggresively towards Faith. My male cat does that to my female, and I am constantly having to yell at him and squirt him. He hates the gun so it works rather well.
I have the same problem, sort of. My cat is 12 years old and my boyfriends Yorkie is 6 years old. The yorkie has been trying to kill my cat for three years!! I still haven't figured out how to fix it. you would think the little b@stard would be used to my cat by now.
I had a friend bring her cat to my place when she went on vacation. My cat and her cat were going at it until I gave them cat nip and they got stoned together. After that they were buddies and I never had to use the cat nip again.
the three month old is the equivelant of a toddler..we had to deal with this two years ago..ours were 16 weeks and 12 ..the baby cat is still crazy in ways the older one never was..but the older cat gets enough and attacks the baby now..mine are both declawed so they really arent going to hurt each other..i think the paw slaps are funny...it takes a few and the baby will leave the old one alone for a while..the thing is the older cat of yours is more than likely letting her be rotten and will eventually stop it when she gets fed up..she wont hurt the baby but will put her in her place
cat nip story was a good one, try that first. All kitties must get stoned.
I have a co-worker with the same issue. The vet put the younger cat on drugs!
I hate to give you this answer, because it's a "dilemma" I may face. This is "animal" superiority. As one "ages", the younger one is trying to assert it's dominance. A "survival of the fittest" I'm afraid.
This is only MY opinion, but I believe it may be the "bottom-line." Sorry :-(
This may or may not work for you.
I confined both cats (AFTER clipping their claws!!!) in a clothes basket (for a cage) and they hissed at each other for quite some time, but had only one minor brawl.
Eventually, both went to sleep, as cats are prone to do. When one awoke, I fed them both and confined them again. There was dramatically LESS hissing, and both went to sleep again.
I continued this for a few days, until, eventually, the two fell asleep nestled together and they were fine ever after.
A side note: spraying the agressive cat only made her hostile toward ME, while not curing the actual problem.
The older cat will get sick of it and put her in her place honey.