Here’s the situation:
I have a 2-year-old female cat who is very sweet, gentle and really friendly with people. Two months ago, we got a kitten. She’s also lovely and well-behaved, and she is the same breed.
The issue is that the older cat just won’t accept her. She growls and hisses, but far from attacking the kitten (who is actually quite curious about her "big sister"), she seems terrified. She flees the house and goes to hide in the garden or the surrounding area (the kitten is still too small to be let out, but that won’t be long now).
The biggest problem is that as time goes on, the adult cat is spending more and more time away from the house, to the point where she’s even staying out overnight and we hardly see her anymore. I should point out that she’s the opposite of an adventurer; before the kitten arrived, she spent most of her day sleeping indoors.
Basically, we’re looking for a solution to help the older cat stop being so afraid of the kitten (as that’s clearly what’s happening). Has anyone else here ever dealt with this kind of thing before?
