Do your cats fight or get along?

I need a bigger bed also.
All 4 tried to get in it before Cleo came.

My four kitties seem to get along quite well. Although some combinations are more common than others, they'll all lie together, or at the very least lie on the same chair. Occasionally, there's a swat or two of a paw exchanged, but it's generally just a playful teasing thing.

four of my five kitties are siblings they are six months old and the older cat is slowly warming up to them, but gives them heck a lot...but doesn't hurt them.

Mine get along and spend most of their time together

Believe it or not, all mine get along

My six basically get along well together. Shareena and Miss Patchwillow are sisters that I got six weeks apart. After the first day and a half of determining who is alpha cat, they've been best friends. Shareena thinks Goldy's three kittens are her babies. She's okay with Goldy, too, but mostly ignores her. Miss Patchwillow and Goldy have an occasional staredown/growling contest, but they never touch each other. The kittens love everybody.

Mine get along for the most part.

The 'hissy' fits are usually between the two girls (Kuce and Lil' Jag) with LJ being the aggressor (You wouldn' know that Kuce helped to raise LJ). Then it's up to our boy Luvbug to put LJ back in her place (He's kind of the peacemaker between the girls).

When Sphinx was alive there wasn't a problem between him, Kuce and Luvbug.

Dang! If Ophelia wasn't the cat from maybe I could have peace!

We lost our oldest girl on November 19 (R.I.P. Cally, our beautiful black), so now we only have 2 cats taking over our house and sharing their furs with us (in our coffee, in our supper/lunch/breakfast, in our shower/bath, in our bed, in our clothes, in our toothbrush bristles....).

Cage, our 5 y/o neutered DSH boy (aka "The Pinto"), is The Diplomat, and always has been. I fostered adults & kittens for years, and he has always been the peacemaker, the trust-gainer, and the friend to all.

Cruz, our 4 y/o spayed Snowshoe Siamese girl (aka "The Meezer") shows a typical female attitude to newcomers but slowly accepts everyone on her own terms.

The two of them together make one sweet furry pile of love 99% of the time. They are VERY bonded, and more often than not, are found in the same room, in the same bed, in the same cat tree, on the same shelf, etc. Grooming one another in bliss is a very common sight (especially those long-lasting and ever-enjoyable "Ear Jobs" that almost drive me to get up and find some Q-Tips because my own ears feel violated just watching it, haha). Occasionally the two furballs have a scuffle (typically Cage getting too rough, or turning a playfight into an unneccessary Humping Sesson) but I clap my hands and scold them and they break it up, usually. Once or twice, I have actually found clumps of hair from a more serious scuffle, but even those are very short-lived, and I don't worry about them.

Mine get along, but Buffy hates Molly. I can tell Molly wants to get to know Buffy, but she's been cowed into submission and averts her eyes when the Holy Buffy comes into the room. If Buffy sees any sort of behaviour from Molly that connects the two (like eye contact, a bad smell, sometimes even breathing), she'll growl. But they never get into fights, most likely because Molly's such a timid little creature who shrinks when Buffy goes up to her. Molly's a funny creature, though, because she turns into something else when food enters the picture. Like tonight, I remembered that they'd gotten some Christmas treats, so I got them out and started flinging them around, having the cats chase them. Well, Molly was perched on a chair leg at one point and Buffy hopped up alongside her. I flipped a treat towards them and it landed somewhere in the middle of them. Buffy, being a carboholic, lunges for it, but Molly reaches a paw over and starts beating Buffy in the head. Her body didn't move, but her head (looking towards Buffy) and her paw ("Bat bat bat bat bat!"). Buffy ate the treat anyways, but after I got over my laughing fit, I nicely placed a treat right in front of Molly. She's done similar things, courageous things, when food is involved. If Molly's eating and Buffy stalks over and demands the food, Molly starts growling like a beast (sometimes if I take a hand and push her away, because maybe she's digging into skinny Willow's food, she'll practically snarl at me). Molly's timid and shy until there's food. Then she's a fiesty little cow, lol. But that really has nothing to do with this thread, does it? Ooops.

But yeah, everyone gets along as long as everybody has their space. Everyone likes Willow and Willow likes everyone (I'm talking family felines; people are a whole 'nothing story with Willow). Molly likes Willow and is wary of Buffy. Buffy's the boss girl but she defers to Willow (most of the time) because Willow raised her when Buffy arrived as a 4 week old orphan. Buffy will try to boss Willow around, but she quits early and doesn't hassle Willow. Too much respect there. Buffy hates Molly, as I've already said, due to Molly arriving as an "aged" 5 month old when Buffy and Willow were 2 and 4 years old. I didn't introduce them properly (at the time, Molly was a lost girl that we were trying to find the owners for, and then later trying to find owners, period. Then we gave up and decided she wasn't going anywhere). Buffy felt challenged and she still doesn't like the intruder. In a perfect world, Buffy and Willow would live happily ever after, ALONE.

Nobody fights, unless it's in play (or Molly is in a weird mood and starts chasing Buffy around, trying to get her to play, and Buffy goes into a panic because she just doesn't know what to do about the unexpected turn of events). Occationally there won't be consent between both cats (Buffy and Willow) and you'll hear one warble and gobble, kicking up a protest (usually Willow; if Buffy doesn't feel like playing, it's simply a hiss and spit). Also a helpful hint is if grey fur (Willow's) is floating. Willow sheds feet hair soooooo easily when she's stressed. She'll shed her feet hair while play-fighting, but it doesn't float in puffs. You'll maybe see a streak on Buffy somewhere, though usually she'll have a clump stuck to the corner of her mouth.

I put other cos of the foster cats - my two are OK about 98% of the time, they live in my bedroom through choice (door is never shut), and while they aren't close, they can be on teh same bed. Fosters are a different matter, although I had all 4 of them in one room last night, which was wonderful. I did get woken up at 5.30 by two of them fighting though - someone told me that cats respect blind/deaf cats - no one told Kizzy that. Although her attacks on other cats are much better these days, she has been known to pin a cat down just for walking downstairs, she hated him to the extent she would regularly attack the door, yet it is a room I often have fosters in and she hasn't done it with any others.

coco and the boys get on beautifully as you can see.


but tabitha will get easily irritated by them if they try to play with her. however, she will happily tolerate them when they are tired!

Mine all get along.
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My girls are sisters and have been together all their lives, so they get along famously. Here they are trying to share the same perch, which is only big enough for one cat..

I put 'other' because my two don't always get along. There are times (rare) where they can sit within two feet of each other and not be dueling it out. Then there are the average times where if Jack looks at JoJo funny, she hisses and beats him up. But then other times Jack is the dominant one. I think JoJo wants to be left alone but Jack wants to play all the stinkin' time... while she doesn't. I can't get another cat (I would in a heartbeat) due to apartment rules... but he needs someone to play with and wrestle with.

Amanda

I've grown up with cats my whole life. At one point when I was a kid, we had 6 cats & I loved it but they each did their own thing, never really fought. Well I take that back, the veterans would beat on the newbies but eventually that got old & they ignored each other...lol...I have 2 cats now, ginger & pepe, pepe is only 4 mths old, ginger is 9 & let me just say they fought for a good month before ginger finally realized pepe wasn't going anywhere! They are both females & get along for the most part now but still fight every now & than.

Samba and Tubee get along and Root and Tubee get along, but Samba and Root do not get along. I think it was because of bad introductions between Samba and Root.

Manda

Mine all get along really great. Pixie tries to act like she's in charge but actually Sassy is. Sassy being the oldest at 16 is sort of like the older sibling who keeps everyone out of trouble. Pixie and Linus like to play together and tear around but Pixie is like 3 times bigger then Linus and does get a little rough with him. At this point Sassy will step in and chase Pixie. He isn't trying to hurt her or even catch her for that matter it's a more of "That's enough out of you missy" stance.
Linus of course can be a bit of a brat and does torment the other two but not in a mean way he just like to see what he can get away with.