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We are still trying to integrate our two cats after 9 months. The boy Shadow continually stares at, stalks, chases, bites her anywhere he can, and mounts and then bites the back of the neck of my girl Tinkerbell. They are 11 and 12 months old respectively. We keep them separated when we are not in the house. She will sometimes be playful with him but mostly is very wary of him and does not tolerate his chasing/attacking and will growl and run away. We try and discourage his behaviour. They both had their neuter/spay ops in the New Year.
We will hopefully be seeing a behaviourist soon. But in the meantime i am concerned/intrigued about something. Sometimes Shadow will 'chatter' (make gutteral clicking fast calling sounds) at her whilst staring at her and before he pounces. I never knew what it meant but thought it was a little creepy. I have since looked it up and by all accounts almost every article or forum says the cat does this because they are either: excited by prey or when they are about to attack prey, prior to delivering the killing bite, or spotting desirable prey but not being able to get at it so it's a cry of frustration. They all refer to 'prey' as in birds etc, but not about a cat chattering to another cat.
Does Shadow really want to hurt Tinkerbell but knows he won't be allowed to follow through properly, as he knows the humans will try and stop it? We are pretty sure he is not playful he seems to just want to drive her away we are guessing this is territorial aggression, but wanted to know what others thought about cats chattering at other cats they are about to pounce on?
Thanks..
We will hopefully be seeing a behaviourist soon. But in the meantime i am concerned/intrigued about something. Sometimes Shadow will 'chatter' (make gutteral clicking fast calling sounds) at her whilst staring at her and before he pounces. I never knew what it meant but thought it was a little creepy. I have since looked it up and by all accounts almost every article or forum says the cat does this because they are either: excited by prey or when they are about to attack prey, prior to delivering the killing bite, or spotting desirable prey but not being able to get at it so it's a cry of frustration. They all refer to 'prey' as in birds etc, but not about a cat chattering to another cat.
Does Shadow really want to hurt Tinkerbell but knows he won't be allowed to follow through properly, as he knows the humans will try and stop it? We are pretty sure he is not playful he seems to just want to drive her away we are guessing this is territorial aggression, but wanted to know what others thought about cats chattering at other cats they are about to pounce on?
Thanks..