Hi all,
I'm really hoping someone here can help me. My girlfriend and I adopted Celeste, who is a female DMH who's about 2 years old. She's had one or two previous litters plus the one she had when we met her. We also adopted Montana, one of her kittens from her current litter.
Celeste was a stray I beleive, before she was taken in by the shelter that we adopted her from but I dont know anything else about her first 2 years of life.
She was a really nice cat, affectionate but not too needy when we first took her home. She kind of didn't like to be pet, it's like she wanted to be pet but then felt we weren't doing it right so would give up and walk away.
She went through about 2 heats before we were able to get her fixed (paperwork from the state and such). We also got her kitten (female) fixed as well.
Ever since then she's taken to chasing the kitten if she gets too close. She'll like attack and bite her on the head, then sort of 'freak out' and jump away. The kitten tiptoes around the house now avoiding her.
Celeste also has taken to biting me in the face when im at my computer desk. I allow her to sit/lay on it since the cats I grew up with never bothered me but sometimes she'll just snap and swat me in the face (no claws) or bite me.
She's gotten me twice just under my eye and once on the nose with her teeth. Not breaking the skin but it still scares me! Usually i had been petting her absently before she attacks. I haven't figured out if there is a certain area she doesn't want to be touched or not. She doens't seem in pain and for all other intents and purposes seems pretty normal.
Ive tried keeping her off the desk but she's so persistant and i'd like to try and find out why she's doing it as opposed to just keeping her from situations that cause her to do it. I'm worried that she might do this to guests or my girlfriend or even any children we may have in the future. I want to find out whats going on to try and stop her from doing it.
Has anyone else experienced this with their cats? we were told there wouldn't be a problem having a mother and a female kitten. *sigh*
Montanama
I'm really hoping someone here can help me. My girlfriend and I adopted Celeste, who is a female DMH who's about 2 years old. She's had one or two previous litters plus the one she had when we met her. We also adopted Montana, one of her kittens from her current litter.
Celeste was a stray I beleive, before she was taken in by the shelter that we adopted her from but I dont know anything else about her first 2 years of life.
She was a really nice cat, affectionate but not too needy when we first took her home. She kind of didn't like to be pet, it's like she wanted to be pet but then felt we weren't doing it right so would give up and walk away.
She went through about 2 heats before we were able to get her fixed (paperwork from the state and such). We also got her kitten (female) fixed as well.
Ever since then she's taken to chasing the kitten if she gets too close. She'll like attack and bite her on the head, then sort of 'freak out' and jump away. The kitten tiptoes around the house now avoiding her.
Celeste also has taken to biting me in the face when im at my computer desk. I allow her to sit/lay on it since the cats I grew up with never bothered me but sometimes she'll just snap and swat me in the face (no claws) or bite me.
She's gotten me twice just under my eye and once on the nose with her teeth. Not breaking the skin but it still scares me! Usually i had been petting her absently before she attacks. I haven't figured out if there is a certain area she doesn't want to be touched or not. She doens't seem in pain and for all other intents and purposes seems pretty normal.
Ive tried keeping her off the desk but she's so persistant and i'd like to try and find out why she's doing it as opposed to just keeping her from situations that cause her to do it. I'm worried that she might do this to guests or my girlfriend or even any children we may have in the future. I want to find out whats going on to try and stop her from doing it.
Has anyone else experienced this with their cats? we were told there wouldn't be a problem having a mother and a female kitten. *sigh*
Montanama