Resident cat is around 2 years old and new kitten is now about 5 months old. He is more playful than she ever was - and confident.
We are still feeding between a baby gate, sometimes doing simultaneous play. Resident cat growls and hisses as soon as she’s done eating or if he approaches the gate and tries to get her attention. Her growling has gotten quieter and she no longer lashes out on us (it was bad for a while lol) but she has started to get up to his face at the gate and swats/lunges at him. She’s spit once (yesterday) but besides that it’s mostly growling. She really doesn’t like when he approaches her or tries to interact with her even vocally.
Thing is she used to hiss and growl and then make a big huffing noise and run off, hiding under the bed. She’d growl and swat at us if we tried to touch her. Now she will kinda lay down by the gate next to him but will still be growling. If he makes any noise she quickly lunges and tries to swat at him. She doesn’t really run away anymore and she seems more relaxed but still not into him. Before she literally looked like she wanted to hunt him down. Completely fixated, eyes dilated, stiff, not responsive to us, etc...
So we’ve pretty much hit a plateau at this point so my question is when should we start supervised interaction? I’m not expecting her hissing and swatting to stop before we let them really meet, but I don’t know if we’re there yet? There’s definitely been a change in response/behavior but with the swatting I can’t tell if it’s worse or better lol! Thanksssss!
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from Pets https://www.reddit.com/r/Pets/comments/mg66oz/day_36_of_cat_introductions_time_for_supervised/
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