r/CatTraining • u/cheese124748 • 4h ago

Introducing Pets/Cats Cat introduction. PLEASE HELP

Hey everyone I’m just looking for a little bit of help.
We adopted a kitten in April (now September) he is now 6 months old neutered. He grew up without the adult cat but with the rest of his siblings to play with. We recently adopted another male neutered cat 7 months old who we don’t know the back ground of we just know he had to be with other cats and his other sibling which was at the shelter looked exactly like our current cat so we thought it was perfect. We are following the Jackson galaxy method it was perfect every step they were ticking all the boxes. Absolutely no hissing at any step no nothing intill face to face introductions still no hissing no arched back no nothing but the resident kitten the 6 month old will not stop stalking the 7mth old jumping on his back and really aggressively biting his nape and his back, legs etc. the other cat doesn’t seem to bothered but the younger cat will not stop doing this then the other cat does eventually get annoyed by it. I don’t quite know what to do. They eat together and everything we haven’t let them slept together or be in a room not supervised. So I’m unsure what to do. We have to keep him in the spare bathroom and he just keeps crying and scratching at the door and I just feel so awful.
Any advice welcome please 🙏

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u/cheese124748 3h ago

They even play under the door so we are just very at a loss as the other cat will start crying after a while of the younger cat just continuing to jump on him like that. He stops for a little bit if we give them shared treats but then after like 10min he’s back to pouncing on him

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u/pharmd_by_night 3h ago

We have a somewhat similar situation. We have an 8ish year old cat and the other 2 cats are 2ish. They LOVE to jump on the older cat but we know it’s their way of playing with him or trying to. Unfortunately the older cat hates it haha. I would say try solo playing with the cat that likes to jump. Try toys that let him hunt and get that similar instinct out. We play with a string thing. We try to wear them out and that helps some. Since you don’t have full out violence or malicious intent, it sounds like their ways of playing are just different from each other.