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This honestly sounds more like play-fighting than actual fighting to me. All three of my cats play fight with each other. They pounce on each other and wrestle, rabbit kick, bite each other (not hard, obviously) and one always gets up and runs away and the other chases them. Sometimes one will hiss at the other when the other one tries to play with them but is more of a "calm down, I'm not in the mood to play." Than an actual threat.
Also, your kittens are right at the age that they begin to learn "manners" so to speak. This is the age when they learn important things like bite-inhibition (how hard is too hard when biting/ play-fighting) and how to behave around other cats.
Basically, I wouldn't worry about their "fighting" unless it is clear that one is legitimatly trying to hurt the other (which will be very obvious, there will be YOWLING, which is the cat equivalent to screaming, and very loud growling and they will draw blood when fighting).
Some cats will 'try to bury' their food, because if they were in the wild, they would have the instinct to bury what remains of the prey they killed, and have not eaten. Not all cats do this, but it is very interesting to see. Like they want to save the food for later.
There's been no blood at any point of them meeting... Ever! My Gypsy girl (Calico) is a bit rude lol. She likes to play rough and has no manners. Today it started, each of them was fine both near me, no hissing, then Gypsy pounced on Mysti's tail and they started fighting. They haven't yowled but they do make some noise. No screeching, but definitely low rumble growls. Maybe I'll try putting them together again soon. I just get so nervous.
I've also noticed when they eat around each other, Gypsy will "bury" her food bowl.... like scratch at the floor all around it and walk off. Does anyone know what this means?
Actually, I would NOT separate them anymore, because by them both sleeping so close to one another, it shows how they trust each other.
You may just not be used to the rough playing, but that is precisely how they learn "NOT to bite" too hard. If they are not given a chance to play, they will develop behaviour problems, later, which will be more difficult to remedy.
Your next goal, will be to teach them to not bite your hands, and act like a 'hurt cat', by crying out, and acting as they do.
In this way, you will be teaching them that they cannot bite people, hands or feet.
The best way to do this is by stroking and patting each of them, all over, when they are sleepy. Touching their paws, feet, mouth, heads, stomach...etc.