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I need some advice and/or reassurance. I have my resident cat 10 month old Bennie and brought home a 13 1/2 week kitten Chloé last week. We have been doing slow introduction as best as we can as I can’t just keep the kitten holed up in the cat room 24/7 as she is a well socialized kitten who is used to being around many cats and kittens. We have a mesh pop up catio that we use when we take her out of the cat room so that they can see and smell each other but can not get to one another. Bennie stays next to the tent most of the time and will bunny hop around the tent and occasionally bop her. He hasn’t hissed with one exception the day we brought her home and he smelled the carrier. No hissing from him since. We take Chloé out of her tent a couple times a day and monitor the interactions. At first Bennie will approach sniffing her, then will start licking her head (we praise him and give him a treat when he does this) but then he pins her down and bites her neck or throat. We let it play out until Chloé starts to cry as we don’t want to impede on the natural process but I’m concerned that Bennie is going to do this every time she’s out and about. If she runs he will chase her and repeat process. I just don’t know if these are good signs or if we need to just completely keep her separated still. I don’t want Chloé hurt or feel neglected but I also don’t want Bennie agitated. They are both Siberians from the same breeder and have the same father. Pic of my babies just because they’re gorgeous.
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