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I do my best to intervene asap. Usually I come in clapping my hands telling them to both stop and they both run. The "alpha" girl then wants to go out in the catio while my second one runs hiding. Should I be doing something different?

She chases them for the most part. Guards the stairs so they can't get into our room (which is everyone's safe space). Only once I saw she was in a fight with my second girl and both their fur was disheveled. I had to make a lot of noise to startle them to stop. To be fair, no growling or...

Our tabby is the first and we brought in 2 kitties. We did slow introduction. And she tolerates them but bullies them when she can. 2 years later I rescued another kitty. Same thing. The other three get along fine. It's just my first born (lol) that's a bully. Plenty of posts to jump and...

I'm afraid it's getting worse. Resident cat is chasing my other two younger ones (they're a year and a half. Resident cat is three) but it's getting worse. She lunges at them. Blocks their way if they want to come into our room. Blocks the window to their enclosure. Its possibly contributing...

Kittens have been neutered. You're right the babies are fighting back. At least the boy is and since he's as big as resident kitty she's a bit shocked when she gets the paw back in the face. We're doing what we can here with giving love to everyone, separating fights and playing with all three...

I'm completely baffled and I'm not sure what to do at this point. One minute they're sleeping on the same bed (not closely huddled but same bed nevertheless) or they're eating together (separate bowls) the next few minutes resident kitty is chasing the heck out of them and they're running amok...

Well today just out of the blue, one of the babies was sitting on the couch minding her own business and resident kitty just comes up, swipes at her face and it caused massive chaos. We had to separate both of them and give them a time out. After that it was moments of chasing throughout... it...

The good news! after several months Resident kitty now gets along with my 8 month kitties! we were told when we adopted resident kitty that she was a "one cat" household. With a lot of work and effort we made it happen! They can eat together. They sleep in the same room (not close but at least...

I have a palm parlor plant which is the sacrificial ones they use as garden chewables Spider plants are also good sacrificial ones

HUUUGEE Update. We've just been doing everything separate with them, using the patio screen door as a barrier between them and resident cat. Just hissing and the evil eye. Resident cat is now sleeping with us at night and spending time with us when kittens are in their room. Then today kittens...

Looks like we hit a wall here. :sigh: After that little fiasco resident cat will now only sleep downstairs. Only comes upstairs to eat bits of food here and there but runs back down. The only time she'll come up is in the wee hours of the middle of the night to sleep in our room. Kittens are...

Well, that went out the door. Resident cat was outside and babies were having fun around our room. Some sort of miscommunication happened and resident cat was let in and in a flash chaos ensued. I don't even know what went down all I remember charging and running (possibly from resident cat)...

Second Update(s): Kittens were playing and reaching out at bottom of door. Resident cat just stared from her bed alert and alarmed...but went back to sleep. Kittens still run around while resident kitty is outside surveying her land. Resident kitty comes in with no problem and goes upstairs...

Thanks for your input! this makes me feel better and I'm glad I'm at least headed in the right direction. It's so hard to be patient when you just want them to be together so quick! but I know that would completely undo all our work. The big challenge right now is resident cat is ignoring...

Gate has been up for about a week. First with the door closed now with it open with supervision (the babies climb the gate and screen door!) So right now we're letting the kittens roam and our resident girl in our room. The babies are swiping under the door and our resident hissed. With some...