Interesting Question - MULTI CAT HOUSEHOLDS ONLY!

Quincy, my older kitty, is top cat in our household--his attitude says it all. Quasar, 4 years younger, sometimes steps "out-of-line" and aggravates his big brother, and usually gets put in his place.

I am fairly sure Pong is more alpha around here then Ping. Which I find kinda funny considering Ping is the oldest (2 in may) and a male and been here the longest (2 years). Pong is the youngest (1 around may) and female and been here the shortest (July will be a year).

Here are some examples:

• When I give them something I was eating (like left over ice cream in my bowl or cereal milk) Ping will step back until Pong eats what she wants and then he will eat whats left.
• Like the other night Ping was sleeping somewhere Pong wanted to sleep is messed with Ping until he got up and got in his spot. He sat there and looked at her and she kinda laid her ears flat off the side of her head and stared at him. He slowly moved backwards and found a different spot.

Just things like that make me think she really is the alpha around here.

Wawa (M) and QT(F)I think. But he is constantly being challenged by the other boys - Ashley and Buddy. They young ones though are his supporting army. QT's authority is sometimes questioned by the girls. I am there to stop potential wars. So in my house, nobody listens to anybody except the human.

JoJo, mostly because she was adopted first, and she's six months older than Jack. Jack tries to usurp her position as Alpha, but she is still queen. I treat her as such, and she behaves that way. The only time i think she lets him be top cat is during play. They're about the same size now (Jack was sick and underweight for a couple years), and when he gets playful, she usually rolls over on her back... I know with dogs, that's a sign of submission, but with cats, I think the same... so it depends on what day it is, what's happening, etc... but mostly JoJo the Queen.

From the day she came into this household at 15 weeks old, Babycakes has been our top cat.....five pounds of fluff and attitude! Lowest cat on the totem pole? I'm not really sure about that one though!

Tubee is top cat all the way, he gets what he wants always. But, that is also partly because the other two don't care. Root as many people know is very lazy, so he won't fight Tubee or Samba, and Samba never has anything the other two want, he sleeps in all the odd places, and eats on his own time.

Manda

That depends on the day and what they are doing.

Generally speaking - Kuce (our 15 year old) is the alpha cat, followed by Luvbug, then Lil' Jag. Kuce and Luvbug have a mutual understanding of each other and generally leave each other alone but the girls (Kuce and Lil' Jag) have their differences on occassion. At least LJ doesn't pull anything on Luvbug (he doesn't put up with it anyway from her - like he was her father - which he isn't.).

When Sphinx was alive he was definitely THE alpha cat.

Originally Posted by rescuecatsrule

I was just wondering this.
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Who is the top cat and who is the bottom cat in your household?

I've only got the one cat so I can't answer (without the answer being obvious

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When I say multicat I mean 2 or more cats living in the same house.

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Both Sugar and Spice are pretty equal. They both have thier spot on the bed, thier food bowls on the table and they both will correct the other if she is getting out of line. Now our foster at the moment - SHE is mean! Well - shes a momma so I have to give her some slack - but even is MAX looks at her funny she swat him across the face baring claws and all! (he;'s afraid of her)

Mary rules the roost with an iron fist. She weighs all of 6 pounds on a good day but she has the heart of a lion. She makes sure the waste is covered in the box. She was 2 when the kittens came at 12 weeks. So she mothered them. What a strict mother she is. She taught them how to bury the waste deep in the box. She taught them food etiquette. We have three bowls so each eats and then according to Mary it is time to rotate. So they rotate.
She grooms them daily, still plays chase and will look utterly disgusted when one falls out of line. If she is cleaning herself or it is her 'me' time they know to give her wide berth or be sorry. The boys are twice her size but when they get out of line she will beat them up with her crafty fighting style. If she is really annoyed then she chases them under the bed and then sits there with her tail thumping. They peek out waiting for the coast to be clear. When it finally is, they trot away rather hastily to go to their cat tree and show Mary that they are good boys.
If her tail is thumping then they both stop in their tracks.
On the flip side she cuddles them, grooms them(when Seldon was sick she kept him clean)lets them have more treats and loves them with all of her heart. When Cleo was banished to the bedroom she went in to cuddle him and check on him. When he whined through the door she sat there until I let her go in and he stopped. She took on two ferals to keep them away from the house and her boys.
Seldon is the low man on the todem pole and that is because he is too darn nosey to care. While Cleo tries to ascend to supremacy Seldon is like yeah whatever I gotta go watch what my human mommy is doing. Fascinating stuff.
Mary is the sweetest lap cat who will nose kiss me, lower head for kisses and purr loud enough for the neighborhood to hear. She sleeps on me every night but she is Iron Mary when the time comes for it.

Hmmmm. I actually am having a hard time coming up with an answer. At first I was going to say Sox because she is so spoiled, but I think Wesley would be the top cat of our house. He is the older one. It seems like he is the one who teaches Sox a lot and and if she ever gets out of line, he will teach her who's boss!

Here, it's the Diva Etcetera D'Calico that is top cat, without a doubt. What she says goes. As for the bottom, it's actually kind of hard to say. Hobo Skimbleshanks could probably take anyone in the house if he wanted to fight about it, but he is so totally laid back that he doesn't care who's in charge or what his own standing is. He just wants someone to wrestle and snuggle with, and he's happy

Ever since Fred went to the Bridge, we really don't seem to have an alpha. He was top cat for 18 years, and ruled the house with a loving attitude, and only if necessary, an iron paw, raising any little stray that came along, he even brought home a couple of orphans. He "mothered" them and taught them to be good kitties. Ever since he has been gone, my kitties are brats, but nobody is in charge.

My cats don't really have a hierarchy... Sneakers is the senior cat in the house and she basically just wants the kittens (and dogs) to leave her alone and stay away. She will hiss and swat the kittens if they come too close, and the kittens will roll over and flatten out on their backs and stay there when she does that, so I guess you could say she is the boss, but really she just wants everyone to keep far away from her! It's different from when we had our last cat, Sylvia. Sylvia also wanted to be left alone but she was very much the queen of the household as well as being solitary... Sneakers doesn't have that same "air" of "everyone should bow down to me!" that Sylvia had.

The kittens are pretty evenly matched. Church is a little older, a little larger and plays more roughly but Rorschach can usually hold her own... They take turns in who is chasing whom and who is on top when they're wrestling. There is really no way to say who is "higher" with the two.

We have 2 cats. Right now Charlie is more or less the dominate one, but Ling is far from being submissive to him. She would like to be top cat but he's stronger and more persistant.

Will be interesting next spring with Jack - then it will be 2 Oci males. I think Charlie was the dominate one in the litter. Will have to ask Jack's breeder how dominate he is

Originally Posted by rescuecatsrule

I was just wondering this.
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Who is the top cat and who is the bottom cat in your household?

I've only got the one cat so I can't answer (without the answer being obvious

)

When I say multicat I mean 2 or more cats living in the same house.

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I guess the one year old cat is the "top" cat. He just had his first birthday this past Sunday.

Stanley is... as of now. But I have a feeling once Raymond gets bigger he'll take over!

Great Thread!! Sliver is the queen & Snowball is the king. They are both # 1.
The bottom ones are the 3 kittens...Everyone is in order of when we adopted them

tabitha being both female and a tortie is top cat. she will tell the boys in no uncertain terms when they have pushed their luck! i'm glad though cos for 5 years janet was the boss and although i wish so much that he was still with me, his passing has seen tabby gain newfound confidence.

i would be tempted to say that milo is next but when him and shinobi are eating, shinobi will push him out of the way to get at his bowl. and that surely is a dominance thing.

2nd shinobi

3rd milo

4th my husband

Peekaboo is definitely in charge. He's the oldest, the biggest, the only male, and he's been with me the longest. He does what he wants and Skittles doesn't even try to go against him. She's too sweet to argue with that bossy bully. xD