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Normal hissing or too much?

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So Freya and Sybil have been together for awhile now and generally co-exisit peacefully. Occasionally Sybil will get really into playing and will try to pouce Freya when Freya's not in the mood to play, though, Freya will hiss and Sybil will back off. Pretty much the only hissing we see is when Sybil gets a bit too insistant about freya playing with her when Freya's not in the mood.

We had a kind of funny moment the other morning and I just want to make sure it was funny and not something I should worry about.

Freya and I got up at 7am. The cats had already eaten - DH feeds then when he leaves at 5am so Freya just comes back to bed with me after eating. As we left the bedroom, Sybil bounded up the stairs and pounced at Freya - Freya hissed and Sybil ran back down the stairs. Two steps down the stairs, Sybil bounces back up at Freya, Freya hisses, Sybil runs back down.

This happenned every two steps until the bottom of the stairs at which point I told Sybil that Freya didn't have to play with her if she didn't want to and Sybil mewed, hopped up to headbutt my hand, and ran off to find something else to do.

I chalked this all up to Sybil being a kitten and hence being what we lovingly call "kitten-dumb" as in she'd keep trying to see if Freya wanted to play now until the answer changed or she was distracted...Freya's not nasty, but she's not the most social and not a kitten anymore. Should I be worried?
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Two of my cats chase each other a lot. Sometimes the more rambunctious one will get a little aggressive, and the other, more sensitive cat will start hissing up a storm. This happened two days in a row last week, and I actually started to worry that the boisterous cat was bullying the sensitive cat (probably not intentionally, but he just doesn't know when to quit sometimes, and the other guy ends up feeling cornered).

Of course, the very next day, what do I see? The hissing, sensitive cat trying to bait the assertive cat into chasing him! He would run up to him, make a funny little half-meow, and then run away again (in other words, he was asking for it!).

Anyway, you know your cats better than anyone, but if I were in your shoes, I wouldn't worry unless it became a frequent occurrence. It's possible that Sybil surprised Freya when she just wasn't, as you say, in the mood. Maybe Freya just isn't a morning person!
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Originally Posted by motoko9 View Post
Maybe Freya just isn't a morning person!
She's not, but neither am I so we get along well in the morning. She occasionally grumbles at DH is he turns on a light or makes too much noise when he's getting ready for work.

I'm also not sure that Sybil quite understands that Freya's got a blind side and limited depth perception. At least 1/2 the time she gets hissed at, it's when she comes up on Freya's bad side...
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Gus and Lucky fight one day and love each other the next. I think it pretty normal.
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Originally Posted by Ms. Freya View Post
'm also not sure that Sybil quite understands that Freya's got a blind side and limited depth perception. At least 1/2 the time she gets hissed at, it's when she comes up on Freya's bad side...
I forgot about Freya's bad eye; that could explain her reaction, too. With any luck, though, the two of them will figure things out. It sounds as if they get along pretty well, for the most part.
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