Hi all,

We're new to breeding and have only ever had moggies in the past, they've all normally got on with each other and have been spayed.

Now we're breeding Bengals we'd like to let the queens and kittens roam the house and be part of the family but are finding that a couple of the queens spray all of the time. One who is now pregnant has stopped but her half sister is extremely bad and we've had to lock her up. We were expecting the stud to spray and built a cattery in the garden for him but were surprised how much the queens spray, our older queen doesn't. Is there any way to stop this behaviour?

The other question is regarding the cats getting on together. Basically we're finding that the Bengals are very reluctant to get on with each other and often have to break up fights, is this usual with Bengals? Is there any way to stop it?

Fiona

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Breeding Girls can and WILL spray. Some do, some don't.

Locked her up Where?

Spraying, Mess, Smells all go hand in hand with breeding.

Have you got feliway plug ins? may help reduce tension with hormonal girls. Imagine a load of women together, hormones raging, i'm sure some fights would break out!

How long have you had the bengals? have you had them since kittens?

Hi. I find that my bengal queens do spray around the house quite a lot and although i spend all day cleaning it is impossible. I don't think my bengals fight a lot - when they first have their kittens they are very defensive which is normal but after a few day's they are fine.

LOL, don't worry, nothing sinister. We have a garage attached to the house and we use that to house the messy ones. The stud stays in there when it's cold out. Unfortunately the car has to suffer

The thing is we'd like them all running around the house but the smell becomes awful when they spray up everything.

For those who let them run around and spray what do you use to get rid of the smell?

Fiona

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You clean a lot and hope for the best.

Hi, I don't mind the defensive thing, as you say that is understandable and really cute. Keira has been a great mum and is only just calming down now the kittens are 8 weeks old.

However we have one very small cat, Keira's older daughter actually, who has only been in season once despite being 18 months old, she growls any time one of the others goes near her and that seems to start most of the fights.

I'm actually thinking of having her spayed to see if that settles her and if not maybe even rehoming her somewhere where she's the only cat as she'd make a great pet.

Fiona

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We've had the stud and two of the queens since kittens but the other two queens were older when we got them.

Fiona

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i knew weren't going to be sinister just made it sound that way, lol...

I don't know whether its my breed of cat or the numbers that run around together, but I've never had a female spray yet, hormonal or not

Now stinky Tino he is a different story

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Hi

Girls DO Spray and some are very good at it!
All of my whole girls spray once they have had a litter thats part of breeding...

It is because they don't want to share with other cats... It might be a good idea to get yourself an outside housing for your girls one for each, lined and insulated and heated of course but a least you can keep on top of their spraying.

I bring my girls in daily to play and if they are PG or have kittens then they are in our home.

But spraying does go with breeding not just because they are bengals
Hope your girlies are being good!

Caterina

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