How do I get my 7 month old Tom to get along with an 11 week old kitten?

Question

I just got a new female kitten (3 days ago) who hisses every time my older cat goes near her. He retaliates by viciously attacking her, licking and cleaning her and then pinning her down and biting her throat or anywhere else he can get his teeth into. She is quite happy to go off and play but he just keeps pouncing on her. I have separtated them for now, although feed them in the same room (I have a cage for the kitten, which she tries to escape from so doesn't seem overly worried about the Tom waiting outside!). Some people say I should allow them to 'get on with it' but I am afraid my older cat will kill the kitten. Others say I should separate them. My Tom is also due to be neutured and I am not sure with this aggression that now is the right time to do it (he is a spoilt cat and I wonder if he'll ever get along with the kitten). Please help!!

Answer 1

Non-fixed male cats ar known to kill kittens so keep them apart until the male is fixed and the kitten gets bigger. Then they should get along just.

Answer 2

Keep the kitten separated. Procede with the neutering. The next part is slow, the slower the better. This can take days, weeks or months, but if they have plenty of time, you will have more success in them being friends and the kitten will have time to grow up some. Now, do you have a room where they can have "contact" through the door? Let them get used to each other's scent and see the other one under the door for a while. Then put them in their crates and let them look at each other. The next step is to let them out with supervision for short period of times, extending the time, until they get used to each other and can be left together all the time. Slow introduction is the key.

Answer 3

You need to separate them until they get used to one another. Try keeping the kitten in a room behind a closed door for a day. Feed the cats one on each side of the door so they can smell each other while they are eating. Then the next day switch them so the older cat is on the inside of the door and the kitten is outside (so they don't develop a sense of territory for either side). Give it a while until they no longer make funny noises then start letting them have short supervised visits. Any signs of aggression, separate them again and start over. A good book for this is The Cat Who Cried for Help by Dr. Nicholas Dodman. It's available on Amazon.com and there is a whole chapter about this exact situation.

http://www.amazon.com/Cat-Who-Cried-Help-Psychology/dp/0553378546/sr=1-3/qid=1166485269/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3/002-8767348-5363230?ie=UTF8&s=books

Good luck!

Answer 4

Hmmm, 2-a million/2 months is amazingly almost 11 weeks, you comprehend, so that's no longer an age element. The kitten you have had longer is mad on the intruder. he will the two recover from it, or they're going to paintings out territories interior of your residing house. If there are 2 people there, that's beneficial to each and each enable a kitten undertake you.

Answer 5

I am glad there are immediate plans for his neutering - so do that as soon as you can. It may take up to a month for all his hormones to leave his system so I think you will have to continue to monitor his interactions with the kitten till some time into next year. When she is five months old she will be a better match for him and his level of aggression should be way down.

Answer 6

omg, why isn't he neutered already? 7 months is a long time to wait, and late neutering can cause aggression and spraying problems as well.

Answer 7

you have a problem in your hand of your own choosing. to solve the problem. you have to be a willing participant. that means -- you have to separate the "fighting feuds" -- by physically putting them apart. that means you have a choice of which one to keep. voila. that solves the problem from the logistic point of view. emotional is another question. hope it helps.