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Saikou · #2 (**permalink**) 01-07-2009, 01:07 PM

Its sounds as though the older cat is just teaching him some manners, just the way his Mum would. His Mum would have growled and gently bopped him if he did the same to her. He is only being a baby, and testing his boundaries. She obviously gets on with him as you say they are playing together. He will soon get the message that his over zealous attentions are not appreciated. He just needs to work out where he sits in the pecking order.

If you see him being over zealous, I would distract him by playing a mad game with him. Do you have a Da Bird? Guaranteed to tire out the most energetic of babies. If you are confining him to a room, then he won't have an outlet for those energies.

As long as there is nothing dangerous around, I would leave the two together. They need to sort out their relationship. Often the way they behave looks one way to us, but in cat terms it is something completely different.