We recently took in a stray that had been hanging around our house.
Outside there was no confrontation between the stray and our longtime
cat, in fact the longtime cat seemed to look for the stray and they
seemed to get along together.In the house, at times they will come
within inches of each other, even go nose to nose without any trouble
occurring. Other times a chase occurs,with one of them chasing the
other. There is normally no hissing or screaming, so it seems that
they are just playing chase, but twice now it gotten out of hand, to
the point where they were both rolling together on the floor, hissing
and screaming at each other. No physical damage was done to either
cat, There is a good age difference between them, the long term cat
being about 3 and the other about 1. The 1 year old is the adopted
stray and appearers to still be in kitten mode. Need some comments on
what is happening here and how to avoid, alleviate the problem. As the
1 year old ages will he become more mellow in his attitude toward the
older cat. Right now he is a real lap cat when it comes to people.
Help

Ed Christie