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Hello, I am currently in the process of introducing my cats. My resident cat, Freddie, is a 1-year-old neutered male tuxedo, and the new kitty, Baguette, is an 11-month-old spayed female brown tabby.
I have been going through the phased introduction process and it was going very smoothly up until this incident. Yesterday, in their 3rd face-to-face meeting, my resident cat, who has shown NO signs of aggression so far, totally pounced on the new kitty and scared her. I actually was able to get footage of the meeting, and have rewatched it several times trying to understand if he was attacking her, or trying to play with her (but took her by surprise instead.) To me, it seems like it was a little aggressive, which really does not match up to how he has behaved so far. Since bringing her home, Freddie hasn't hissed or shown aggressive body language even once. He is generally very curious about her, and gallops over to her safe room door when I go in and out. He likes to hang out near her door and they have played with each other's paws under the door as well. They also eat opposite the door from one another just fine.
I am a little puzzled by the incident and wondering if folks here could check out the video and let me know if it seemed like attack behavior, or play. Since yesterday's incident, I have decided to backtrack and keep them separated, but curious to know if it was just normal behavior.
Here is a link to the video with the whole interaction and a slowed down version of the pounce. Sorry for the shaky camera!
Thanks in advance!
I have been going through the phased introduction process and it was going very smoothly up until this incident. Yesterday, in their 3rd face-to-face meeting, my resident cat, who has shown NO signs of aggression so far, totally pounced on the new kitty and scared her. I actually was able to get footage of the meeting, and have rewatched it several times trying to understand if he was attacking her, or trying to play with her (but took her by surprise instead.) To me, it seems like it was a little aggressive, which really does not match up to how he has behaved so far. Since bringing her home, Freddie hasn't hissed or shown aggressive body language even once. He is generally very curious about her, and gallops over to her safe room door when I go in and out. He likes to hang out near her door and they have played with each other's paws under the door as well. They also eat opposite the door from one another just fine.
I am a little puzzled by the incident and wondering if folks here could check out the video and let me know if it seemed like attack behavior, or play. Since yesterday's incident, I have decided to backtrack and keep them separated, but curious to know if it was just normal behavior.
Here is a link to the video with the whole interaction and a slowed down version of the pounce. Sorry for the shaky camera!
Thanks in advance!