hmmm... We were sooo anxious about this, this morning, but now I don't know if it's an issue or not... ??
I would be grateful for any advice from anyone here.
We have a one-year-old (mostly) Siamese male here named Yoda, that we rescued last year from a filthy yard. He's a beautiful, healthy boy of 10 lbs of solid muscle!! He's mostly indoor, tho we let him out now and then if we're out there as well (he does NOT go outside without supervision). We have two other adult males who are entirely outdoor cats (they used to come in, but haven't since he joined the household because he always pounces on them!!).
Anyway, we've been wanting a girl cat in our family, and we thought Yoda might like some company to play with because we don't attend to him as much as he'd like. We adopted a 3-month-old girl from a local rescue organization (ummm... Purrfect Cat Rescue - I hope advertisements aren't forbidden here??); they assured us that she was very accustomed to dealing with larger males.
However, he chases her around the house constantly, pouncing on her, and has been biting at her very hard, or what seems very hard to me, and I'm a little worried about it. He makes his little mrrping sounds when he's pouncing on her, like he does when he's playing with toys, so I think that HE thinks he's playing... but he just pins her to the floor and she can't get away - and he out-weighs her by about 7 pounds.
Should we worry about this, or is this normal behavior?? Will he hurt her?? Should we intervene, or just leave them alone??
For now, we've decided to separate them when we aren't around, and try to calmly intervene if he gets too aggressive, maybe that's all that's needed?? Yesterday it seemed as if she was trying to get away from him, but this afternoon when we let her out of the bedroom, they seemed very happy to see each other, which is making me suspect that I was over-reacting before...
BTW, I've been living with cats, and caring for them, most of my life (which is more decades than I want to think about!!), but in the past I always had animals that came to me, and usually were already adults; having kittens around is a new experience - I'm a daddy!! (Yikes!). So we're both a little over-protective maybe...
(BTW, all of our babes are spayed/neutered)
I would be grateful for any advice from anyone here.
We have a one-year-old (mostly) Siamese male here named Yoda, that we rescued last year from a filthy yard. He's a beautiful, healthy boy of 10 lbs of solid muscle!! He's mostly indoor, tho we let him out now and then if we're out there as well (he does NOT go outside without supervision). We have two other adult males who are entirely outdoor cats (they used to come in, but haven't since he joined the household because he always pounces on them!!).
Anyway, we've been wanting a girl cat in our family, and we thought Yoda might like some company to play with because we don't attend to him as much as he'd like. We adopted a 3-month-old girl from a local rescue organization (ummm... Purrfect Cat Rescue - I hope advertisements aren't forbidden here??); they assured us that she was very accustomed to dealing with larger males.
However, he chases her around the house constantly, pouncing on her, and has been biting at her very hard, or what seems very hard to me, and I'm a little worried about it. He makes his little mrrping sounds when he's pouncing on her, like he does when he's playing with toys, so I think that HE thinks he's playing... but he just pins her to the floor and she can't get away - and he out-weighs her by about 7 pounds.
Should we worry about this, or is this normal behavior?? Will he hurt her?? Should we intervene, or just leave them alone??
For now, we've decided to separate them when we aren't around, and try to calmly intervene if he gets too aggressive, maybe that's all that's needed?? Yesterday it seemed as if she was trying to get away from him, but this afternoon when we let her out of the bedroom, they seemed very happy to see each other, which is making me suspect that I was over-reacting before...
BTW, I've been living with cats, and caring for them, most of my life (which is more decades than I want to think about!!), but in the past I always had animals that came to me, and usually were already adults; having kittens around is a new experience - I'm a daddy!! (Yikes!). So we're both a little over-protective maybe...
(BTW, all of our babes are spayed/neutered)
