Ok bear with me, it’s a weird behavioral question: recently a black kitten, just about weaning age, showed up to the feeding station on my porch. My resident feral boy, Squire, was an absolute sweetheart and ignored the little one’s hissing and screaming at him and basically stepped aside so the little guy could eat.
Skip ahead two months and these two have become inseparable; there’s a camera on the feeding station in front of my house, and Squire and Pantera (the kitten) are always there eating together. I gave them separate bowls but more often than not they eat from the same one.
Has anyone ever experienced this behavior before? I’m not at ALL upset lol, I’m actually very glad that Squire didn’t try to chase the little one off - but I was SUPER surprised by it as well just from my experience with indoor cats being crazy territorial. I’m wondering if Pantera is a girl, BUT Squire’s been neutered for over a year now so idk - either he adopted a lost little kitten as his new best friend, OR he’s got a really annoying kitten that just follows him everywhere.
Screengrab from the porch camera of them together attached (yes, it’s called Troublepuff Detector - anybody new who starts eating here regularly gets de-troublepuffed!)
Skip ahead two months and these two have become inseparable; there’s a camera on the feeding station in front of my house, and Squire and Pantera (the kitten) are always there eating together. I gave them separate bowls but more often than not they eat from the same one.
Has anyone ever experienced this behavior before? I’m not at ALL upset lol, I’m actually very glad that Squire didn’t try to chase the little one off - but I was SUPER surprised by it as well just from my experience with indoor cats being crazy territorial. I’m wondering if Pantera is a girl, BUT Squire’s been neutered for over a year now so idk - either he adopted a lost little kitten as his new best friend, OR he’s got a really annoying kitten that just follows him everywhere.
Screengrab from the porch camera of them together attached (yes, it’s called Troublepuff Detector - anybody new who starts eating here regularly gets de-troublepuffed!)
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