I'm totally new to cats, until this year. So I really don't know much about them. Where I work there is a wild cat that keeps having litters (no one can catch her to try and get her spayed), but 5 months ago I took home a little boy kitten at about 5 weeks old and we hand fed and reared him into a lovely cuddly cat. We had to put him into a cattery for 2 weeks as we went on honeymoon and there he was neighbours with a kitten of similar age and they got on like a house on fire and played all day!
She had fleas so after a few days of treatment I let the 5 month old in to see her and I held him up high and let him look at her and his tail would go very bushy! When we finally introduced them properly he hissed once or twice and since then they have played constantly and just run about fighting each other (Benson isn't using claws and isn't biting her hard), but it was us he was weird with, he huffed with me for days, but seemed to be coming round.
However, this morning Bella climbed onto our bed while my husband was in it and he was stroking her and Benson (who sleeps in our bed with us, as when we got him he wouldn't lap until he was about 8 weeks old so we had to keep him in our room for night feeds) jumped straight onto the bed and did a massive wee on the bed! Is this him just trying to tell the kitten it's his bed or him acting out at us?
Is there anything we can do to try and stop him doing this? We really don't want to cause him stress in the house and we would consider rehoming Bella if it was upsetting him, but he seems to really enjoy her company and playing with her and he has even been caught cleaning her a few times as well so we are really confused?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated! The last time he did a wee on the bed he was only about 2.5 months old and it was a brand new bed with brand new bedding, etc. and we assumed he was just marking it?
By Chelcie from UK
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