Hey all I'm sorry if this is the same question being asked again (if seen quite a few similar questions on here!) but i just want to make sure i'm doing the right thing with my cats so here's the full story!
We have an established cat (Merdle) who's been with us since april and is now 7 months and we were selfish and wanted another one so got Lola 2 weeks ago today, she's now 11 weeks old. We've done the gradual meeting thing and after a few days of growling and hissing through the pen we keep Lola in when they're in the same room Merdle settled down and just seemed more curious of her than anything as did lola so we let them see each other with out the pen.
Firstly it was just a case of them hitting each other but now it has progressed to rolling around together with Merdle obviously always being on top as she's that much bigger than Lola, then Lola escaping only to be caught by merdle again and so it continues but after a while lola runs behind me, does this mean she's had enough and wants me to protect her? after a while of this she ran into her pen (where merdle cant get) so i thought bless her she's tired and wants a break. Merdle patrolled the gap until she got bored (about 2 minutes) then moved away slightly so Lola then decides to run out to the other side of the room where I am, get wrestled to the ground a few times then back into the pen, and repeats a few times, was she just playing? we let them do this for just over half an hour then shut Merdle out as we didn't want to stress Lola for too long.
Is this just them playing and me feeling over protective of Lola as it looks so bad at the moment with the size difference? I have been trying to be strong and only stop them when Lola is pinned in a corner. I dont think Merdle has that bad of intentions towards lola as she's got in before when lola has been eating and she's just licked her hind area and what looks like has a little bite of her which Lola barely responds to?!
I hope all that was understanderble, I just want to know if all is ok in the house or if i should be doing something different?
Thanks in anticipation!
Rainy
We have an established cat (Merdle) who's been with us since april and is now 7 months and we were selfish and wanted another one so got Lola 2 weeks ago today, she's now 11 weeks old. We've done the gradual meeting thing and after a few days of growling and hissing through the pen we keep Lola in when they're in the same room Merdle settled down and just seemed more curious of her than anything as did lola so we let them see each other with out the pen.
Firstly it was just a case of them hitting each other but now it has progressed to rolling around together with Merdle obviously always being on top as she's that much bigger than Lola, then Lola escaping only to be caught by merdle again and so it continues but after a while lola runs behind me, does this mean she's had enough and wants me to protect her? after a while of this she ran into her pen (where merdle cant get) so i thought bless her she's tired and wants a break. Merdle patrolled the gap until she got bored (about 2 minutes) then moved away slightly so Lola then decides to run out to the other side of the room where I am, get wrestled to the ground a few times then back into the pen, and repeats a few times, was she just playing? we let them do this for just over half an hour then shut Merdle out as we didn't want to stress Lola for too long.
Is this just them playing and me feeling over protective of Lola as it looks so bad at the moment with the size difference? I have been trying to be strong and only stop them when Lola is pinned in a corner. I dont think Merdle has that bad of intentions towards lola as she's got in before when lola has been eating and she's just licked her hind area and what looks like has a little bite of her which Lola barely responds to?!
I hope all that was understanderble, I just want to know if all is ok in the house or if i should be doing something different?
Thanks in anticipation!
Rainy