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| I just got my 6 month old kitten spayed yesterday along with her 6 month old 'brother'. We have an older male cat, Raz, who has been fixed for years - we think he's about 10-12 years old and he's always been the sweetest cat. Shea, my little girl kitten immediately warmed up to Raz and they used to sleep together all the time, they eat together, they drink out of the tub together and genuinely got along fantastic. When we brought her home from her surgery yeterday, she was understandably tired and slept in the closet most of the night. She came out later and got up on the couch next to me. Raz came over and started smelling her and then sat down beside her. I thought they were going to curl up and go to sleep, but after a few minutes, all of a sudden, Raz bit her neck and put his arm over her to pin her down. I yelled at him to stop and he wouldn't let go, so I reached out and whacked him with a newspaper. He ran off, but the same thing happened about 15 minutes later. I sepnt the night sleeping on the couch to keep an eye on her. Today they woke up, had breakfast, played a little, did their usual Sunday things, no issues for the first few hours. Shea was out playing on the porch and Raz just happened to walk by and did the same thing. He bit down on her neck and held her down. What in the world is going on? It's not like he's newly fixed and we have 2 other older female cats in the house for years and he's never acted like this. Is there something from the surgery that he smells or what? I have never had a situation like this. Does anyone know what's going on? We also have 2 other males in the house, both fixed (a 6 month old who got fixed yesterday also and a 5 year old who's been fixed for years) and we aren't having any issues with them towards her. I am completely baffled!
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This should wear off in a few days. Can you imagine what your kittens smell like to Raz? The vet's. And I'm sure Raz doesn't like the vet. So, she's associating that smell with something bad. After the smell wears off (like I said, a few days) things should get back to normal.
Don't let Raz get away with doing that, though. Continue to scold her when she does that. There's no reason she should be treating the kitten like that- especially if the kitten already knows that Raz is superior to her.
Point is, don't worry about it too much. It will go away in a few days. You can try getting them to play together, share treats and give some catnip to everyone to help make the 're-transition' go a little smoother.
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| Thanks for the reply. If that's true, then why isn't he going after the male kitten who had surgery also yesterday at the same place? That's what scares me, is he's going after the female, not the male. He's done this about 3 more times today since I posted this. I'm ready to kill him!
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| I've heard that, in dogs, an infection can smell like the "heat" odor, and many male dogs will mount a dog (of either gender) who has an infection. So keep an eye on her incision, make sure nothing is getting infected. It's also possible that she was going into heat at the time of her spay, and that's what he's picking up on (even neutered males are stil males). Or it might be the betadine wash the vets use pre-surgery. That smell always makes my cats act weird. He's probably doing it to her and not the male because she was his special friend already. Try to keep him off of her....it could cause her to pop her stitches. Maybe you'll have to confine one of them until she's healed. After she's healed, I'd let her take care of it---most spayed females will smack any male who tries something like that  .
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My answer to you would be because he is not as close to the male as the female. You said in your earlier post that the female has rather warmed up to him.
That being said, when Leo was neutered, Snowflake did the same thing to him (Leo and Snowflake were practically joined at the hip!). Later, after Leo had passed and we had a foster cat, Pharaoh and Aster (who were both rather buddy-buddy with the foster) weren't necessarily biting him, but they were running away and hissing at him for a few days. Snowflake, who was never really fond of the foster cat, just ignored him.
Give it a week. If things don't improve in a week, when the smell of the vet's has worn off, then there could be another underlying issue, but we have to eliminate all other possibly causes first.
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| Well, luckily it's over. Raz and Shea are friends again and the attacking has stopped. I guess it was just the smell of the vet - thank god! Thanks everyone. It's good to have things back to normal.
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