Question for people with more than one cat

[PaulaSB12]

I adopted 3 cats about 4 years ago. Queenie a tabby who is the most grumpy old meanie of a tabby. Her daughter a little black fiend (with an undwear fettish) and Socks my big black and white tom boy (the worlds biggest mommies boy). If we ever tell the girls off, or if they do something daft like roll off a sofa the first thing they do is thump Socks. Even if they have to spend 20 minutes looking for him punish them he gets a thumping. Also he is a bit fussy about entering his litter box, tail is always the last bit to go in BUT while he is trying to do that his sister Tippy will hold his tail in his mouth to stop him. Anyone else with such a henpicked wuss of a tom boy?

 

[si-am]

Yes! Our neutered male seems to be dominated by our feisty female-- even though she is HALF his size (he is 18 pounds, she's about 8 pounds). And she's younger, too!

The funny thing in our house is that if we get mad at the boy for something and yell "NO" at him, the girl will immediately run over to him and smack him in the face, like she's mad at him, too.

 

[HunnyPots]

Yes, my Mike is a big baby. Both he and his sister were rescued from a dumpster when they were about a week old so we bottle fed them round the clock and just became their mommy. They're five years old now. The female, Betty, is very independant and carries on as normal as any other adult cat. But poor Mike! When he goes outside, all the neighborhood cats will come up to him and hiss at him and back him up onto the porch, where he sits and cries his pitiful big baby cry! And he is a big boy! Fifteen pounds last time we checked!
Oh - and if there is a fleece blanket to be found, Mike will find it and make it his mommy...

 

[Kim&Chris]

We have two cats - Simba and Nala. Both have interesting histories, so I'll make it brief.

Simba - about 10 years ago, my niece heard some noise coming from a trash can. She thought she heard a 'meow', so she opened up the can and found Simba (just a newborn kitten) in a brown trash bag. Yup, someone had thrown him in the trash. She brought him to our house and handed him to me and said "Aunt Kim, can you take him?". How could I say no? And now, ten years later, he is my best buddy. Afraid of EVERYONE, but follows me around the house and is a big mama's boy.

Nala - We decided Simba needed a friend, so I went to a local shelter that was a "kill" shelter. Went to the first row of cats (which were due to be euthanized within the next 48 hours) and found her. OMG, she was so starved. She weighed a whopping almost-4 pounds as an adult female cat. Took her right to the vet, then home with us. She is now the Queen of her castle. And if Simba is laying on the bed when her highness wants to be on the bed, he gets pounced. Must be something with females!!

 

[funkychunkymonkey]

my girl cat is a jerk at times. She attacks the two others (who were there first). It gets pretty bad sometimes, like when they flip the litterbox.

 

[FergieTCat]

I have two girls, who are supposedly littermates. My brother was only going to adopt one from the shelter, but they told him that the kittens were littermates and could not be split up. What are the chances there was more than one litter of grey tabbies -- not exactly a rare breed. Anyway ... he adopted (and named) both Fergie and Diana when they were kittens.

Fergie has always outweighed Diana by about 3 pounds and has always been the alpha cat. I am HER staff, first and foremost. My lap belongs to HER first. She has always smacked Diana out of the way and has always been the first one to the food dishes and treats. (I wonder if it was the same way at the Palace way back when?)

Diana is my sweet good girl. Unfortunately, she is now deaf, so it's much easier for Fergie to launch a sneak attack.

 

[apirateslifeforme]

Sounds a little like DBF's cats. Monster, the girl, is 9 years old, and Dio, the boy, is 2. Monster is definitely an "alpha female." Despite being only about 8 pounds to Dio's 14, she chases him all over the house - when she feels like it. Sometimes Dio will try to chase her; she will smack him and hiss, and he just looks at her like "What?"

According to DBF, Monster used to sleep on the dresser, but when Dio arrived, he usurped her spot. Recently, though, she took it back...by force; Dio approached one night when she was already there and she hissed at him. He sleeps under the bed now.

I will never forget the funny moment when Monster pushed Dio down the basement stairs. The litterbox is in the basement, and DBF has a hole cut in the door so they can go down and come up as they please. One time, I could see Monster was itching to go after Dio...he was just strolling around, heading toward the door, and she was lurking around behind him...well, when he finally started toward the hole in the door, she ran up behind him, put her head down, and nailed him right in the butt, booting him down the stairs. He was okay...but man, that was funny. Especially the "cattitude" afterward...Monster trotted away looking pretty darn proud and satisfied!

 

[mickeyboat]

Our cat Fatboy is the wussiest cat I have ever known. He is huge but let his tiny sister push him around all the time. She passed away and we now have a male kitten who pushes the bigger guy around now. I don't know why he won't just give the kitten a good swat - all he wants is to be left alone.

 

[DizBelle]

You ain't seen nothing 'til you've seen a 2 lb, 8 week old kitten launch herself in a full body attack at a 17 lb would-be Yeti. He ran and she won.

 

[delilah]

We've always had lots of cats. At this time we have 7, 3 neutered male and 4 spayed female, ranging in age from 18 to 1 year old. We have owned cats ever since we were married 31 1/2 years ago. Our alpha cat has always been male. Our first alpha cat was a big tabby named Gandalf (the gray, of course). He ruled for 13 years. Overlapping him was Bodhi, a Siamese/Himalayan mix, who overlapped Gandalf by 3 years, and lived to be 17 years. He shared dominion with Snowden, who overlapped him 7 years. We acquired our current alpha cat, Mistoflees, as a 6 wk old kitten last summer. He and Snowden overlapped by only a few months. The alpha male totally dominates the female cats and the other males, and even the dogs. None of our females have ever dominated over the males, but there is a definite pecking order and ranking among them. Some females aren't even permitted by the other cats to sit on my lap or on our bed.

 

[Kim&Chris]

I'm loving some of these names

 

[binny]

oh yeah. Even the Golden Retriever is scared of our female cat.

heck even I am sometimes she is one scary critter!