Cats Behaving Badly for Food?
Hey Guys, i have two five month old kittens, boy and girl, byrd and judy. Recently the boy has be growling at the girl when i've been feeding them and scaring them sour. He's a lot bigger than her and she's quite timid and he scares her rotten and she doesn't eat till later, he spits at her too. I've started feeding them contained by separate bowls and stuff but he moves over the her bowl and eats her food then growls when she moves to the one he ate out of. Is there anything i can do to stop this arguing over food, it's not nice for the brother to growl at the sister.
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to be precise a cats life, the big male is in charge. you put away what he lets you eat.
get them both fixed, that will relieve.
feed her in a separate room.
Do you nurture them the same amount? Maybe he's hungry and needs more food and is attempting to get more by taking his sister's food. Try giving him additional food and spacing them further apart. If that doesn't work, I would feed her in a separate room. I have 3 cats, one of which have to be fed separately because the others will steal her food. Also, has he been neuter yet? Male cats can get territorial if not neuter (he should be fixed within the next month if he isn't already).
Answers: Byrd is obviously 'top cat' and also being male he could be aggressive as he's reaching sexual parenthood. Best feed them in separate rooms to make certain Judy gets her share,hopefully things will calm down when they are neutered. But meanwhile think twice Judy doesn't come into season before then and they mate, as at 5 months old it's possible.
Feed them in separate rooms and shut the door between them. I would propose putting the tom in the separate room and shutting the door. Not only would that mean he's not sufficiently expert to growl at his sister, it might also convey to him a sense that he's acting badly.
And just a small note on the neuter. My vet does them from 1kg upwards, which is very small. I didn't want mine done until they really needed it (ie. started calling) and my littlest started at 4 1/2 months so I got her done then. It is worth have it done as soon as they start going on heat, and some even do it before, as it saves profoundly of aggression from toms and pregnancy in females. I would actually ask your vet to do the tom now - it's a terrifically quick and easy operation for a tom (just a snip! *lol*), it takes a bit longer contained by the female as they have to open her up. Or run the tom to another vet. After all, the aggression may start with the food and move on to something else. It does nouns like the girl feels terrorised in any luggage by her brother.
Best of luck :-)
