By now, most of you know about my new kitty. As the introduction period has progressed I am allowing them to be together supervised. For the most part the new kitty plays while he is upstairs and doesn't pay a lot of attention to Barnaby. However Barnaby's curiosity has him following the new kitty into every room checking out what he's up to. I'm not exactly sure what started it but this morning after about a half-hour the new kitty jumped down from the couch and pounced on Barnaby and then they got into a bout where they were chasing each other madly, pouncing, rolling, meowing, jumping, etc. This lasted just a short period of time and then I decided to separate them before it got too out of hand. Even when I was carrying the new kitty back to the basement Barnaby was following me. I don't know if he didn't want me to take away his playmate or if he wanted another piece of him.
What they were doing didn't seem vicious and there didn't appear to be any hissing. It all came and went rather quickly.
So my question is, is behavior like this a fight of sorts, or is it just the way they play?
Here's a couple of pictures of the new kitty playing with his toy mouse and Barnaby watching him closely...
What they were doing didn't seem vicious and there didn't appear to be any hissing. It all came and went rather quickly.
So my question is, is behavior like this a fight of sorts, or is it just the way they play?
Here's a couple of pictures of the new kitty playing with his toy mouse and Barnaby watching him closely...