Our rescue kittens and their mamas has begun to inspect our living room. The two youngest kittens are the bravest ones and for a few nights now they visit our bed for an hour or two before they go back to the other kittens. Our cats Zasha and Izzy has accpeted this but today Izzy had enough.
Little Wesley was sleeping next to me in the bed while I was reading when Izzy came in. She came to say hello to me as normal but I could see she was upset on her body language. For a while they both lay on the bed - 3 decimeters from eachother, purring when I hold them. I could see that Izzy was tensed and suddenly she had enough. She screamed in a way that really ices your veins and lifted her paw to hit the kitten and all claws were out and ready. I stopped it by placing my hand on her neck and after a while of loving attention she calmed down. The kitten didn't move. Then Izzy walks of a bit and suddenly she turns around and scream again and attack me. I rais my hand and she stops in the middle of the attack. I pet her for a while and she seems fine but when I stop she attacks me again. I repeat my be behavior but the third time she attacks me I do the same as she does. I scream the same way (as good as I can) and I raise my hand in a more threatfull way - as she did. She runs out of the room. I go after her and I lift her up and hugh her for a while and then I let her out (they have a cat-door but it is closed for going out because of the ferals).
Do you think she would have hurt Wesley if i wasn't there?
Do I dare to leave them alone togehter on Monday when i go to work? Even if the youngest kittens are ten to eleven weeks now she could easily kill them with one bite.
Zasha always hisses at the kittens before she does anything. She only slap them if they doesn't respect her hissing and never with the claws out. By now they respect her and keep distance and she seems fine with that.
Izzy didn't warn first - she just exploded.
Little Wesley was sleeping next to me in the bed while I was reading when Izzy came in. She came to say hello to me as normal but I could see she was upset on her body language. For a while they both lay on the bed - 3 decimeters from eachother, purring when I hold them. I could see that Izzy was tensed and suddenly she had enough. She screamed in a way that really ices your veins and lifted her paw to hit the kitten and all claws were out and ready. I stopped it by placing my hand on her neck and after a while of loving attention she calmed down. The kitten didn't move. Then Izzy walks of a bit and suddenly she turns around and scream again and attack me. I rais my hand and she stops in the middle of the attack. I pet her for a while and she seems fine but when I stop she attacks me again. I repeat my be behavior but the third time she attacks me I do the same as she does. I scream the same way (as good as I can) and I raise my hand in a more threatfull way - as she did. She runs out of the room. I go after her and I lift her up and hugh her for a while and then I let her out (they have a cat-door but it is closed for going out because of the ferals).
Do you think she would have hurt Wesley if i wasn't there?
Do I dare to leave them alone togehter on Monday when i go to work? Even if the youngest kittens are ten to eleven weeks now she could easily kill them with one bite.
Zasha always hisses at the kittens before she does anything. She only slap them if they doesn't respect her hissing and never with the claws out. By now they respect her and keep distance and she seems fine with that.
Izzy didn't warn first - she just exploded.