Why do my cats hate each other?

[purplehair]

I have got 2 female cats. One is the mother of the other one. They hate each other and fight all the time. whenever the mum sees the other cat she hisses and attacks her. What is wrong with them?

[andy-hughes]

Cats are strongly territorial pack animals, and they don't appreciate interlopers.

In the wild, your queen would have established her turf, and her kittens would have to leave and set up home somewhere else. If not, the new arrivals would have to settle down within the pack, knowing their place. Any kitten which fancies its chances would make a play for the queen's position, and either loose, and leave, or win, and the queen would be ousted.

in a domestic situation, your kitten obviously feels she is in charge, but her mother is not keen to move over for her, hence the fighting. because neither of them have an option ot 'move out', or are not keen to try, the fights will continue.

The best way to resove this is to re-home one - ethically this should be the kitten, because she is the newcomer and cause of the fighting.

Hope you are able to sort this out.

[purplehair]

thanks for that. Do you also happen to know why, in the daytime, cats go up and down stairs without making noise and at night when i am trying to sleep they sound like elephants?

[BigB]

Hi purplehair

my two cats are exactly the same. Mother and daughter and fight all the time. The mum (molly) is horrible to the daughter (rosie). I have always wondered why this is. Now i know!!

[wolf63]

purplehair - my cat is almost silent during the day, if I have an afternoon nap on my/our bed he creeps past me to his corner of the bed. At night to make the same journey he stomps across the middle of the bed, thus stomping across me, to get to his corner. He also sounds like a charging elephant on the stairs and he also 'speaks' all the way down and up the stairs.

They are truly strange animals - good job we love 'em, or we would strangle them.

Susan

[andy-hughes]

Hi purplehair - it's the same rule that allows them to instantly quadruple their bodyweight when they curl up in your lap for a snooze!

[purplehair]

My cat Will (the mum) runs up and down the stairs at night going rrrrrmiowwww rrrmiow. Why? What does she mean?

[unruliejulie]

I have mother and daughter cats and they have long detested each other.The daughter constantly winds up the mother and she generally walks the long way round just to avoid her.