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Hi all, my gf and I recently adopted a new kitten (3 month male) to my home with our resident cat (1.5 year female). Here are two examples of said charge swatting. It's usually completely unprovoked while the kitten is simply exploring, playing, or just relaxing.
Prior to introducing them full on they were able to see each other through a screen with no hissing. Things were seemingly going well at first during face-to-face until hours later the resident cat suddenly charge swatted the kitten (first link). It happened twice where the second time the kitten had a watery eye (seems fine now) so we separated them and went to bed. The second day of face-to-face, they ate about 3 feet away from each other and the kitten was just exploring and playing and the resident cat charge swatted him about 4 times within 2 hours (one captured in second link). The video only shows the time where her tail was not swishing/puffed when she did it. It's strange that it's completely unprovoked and seemingly random. Is it time to separate them through the screen again? I feel especially bad for the kitten because I live in a studio apartment and the bathroom gets no natural light but he is definitely frightened of the resident cat at this point.
I will note that while the kitten is around the resident cat usually does not take her eyes off him and can't be distracted unless I give her churu. I have seen them exchange slow blinks two times so it feels like there are some mixed signals.
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Prior to introducing them full on they were able to see each other through a screen with no hissing. Things were seemingly going well at first during face-to-face until hours later the resident cat suddenly charge swatted the kitten (first link). It happened twice where the second time the kitten had a watery eye (seems fine now) so we separated them and went to bed. The second day of face-to-face, they ate about 3 feet away from each other and the kitten was just exploring and playing and the resident cat charge swatted him about 4 times within 2 hours (one captured in second link). The video only shows the time where her tail was not swishing/puffed when she did it. It's strange that it's completely unprovoked and seemingly random. Is it time to separate them through the screen again? I feel especially bad for the kitten because I live in a studio apartment and the bathroom gets no natural light but he is definitely frightened of the resident cat at this point.
I will note that while the kitten is around the resident cat usually does not take her eyes off him and can't be distracted unless I give her churu. I have seen them exchange slow blinks two times so it feels like there are some mixed signals.
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