How to stop a young dominant cat from bullying an older, submissive cat?

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My younger cat, Bosbos, male DSH 4 months old, dominates my older cat, Bosie, female Persian 5 months old. When it is feeding time, Bosie cannot eat infront of Bosbos because he pushes her and eats from her plate. He also chases her off whenever I am giving her affection or attention. How do I stop Bosbos from being overly dominant and/or Bosie from being overly submissive? They do otherwise get along and play with each other, sometimes they even groom each other and sleep together. Pet's info: Cat | Domestic Shorthair | Male | neutered | 4 months old

Megan, DVM, CVA · Accepted Answer

Both of them are really cute! I would get the male neutered once his turns 5 months to prevent this behavior from getting worse. The female could go into heat at anytime so I would advise to get her spayed as well. This behavior may never go completely away as it is their personalities. You may try to put some feliway diffusers throughout the house to help calm them. Feliway is a cat pheromone that doesn't work on all but can help with this behavior. They even have a multicat household version now. I would always meal feed and feed them separately as food aggression is really hard to control. I would also make sure you have at least 2, preferably 3, litterboxes to decrease competition. If the feliway and neutering doesn't help, I would talk to your vet about giving the more dominant one something to help mellow him out like an antianxiety medicine. Hopefully this is just a behavior he has since he is young and boisterous and he will grow out of it. I hope this helps!

How to stop a young dominant cat from bullying an older, submissive cat?

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