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Welcome to part 4 of this cat introduction series. This time we'll look at freya a 9
year old rescue Bengal meeting this kitten, Chatzi. chatzi is a Bengal kitten, and is
spending his first few days in a room of his own in the house..
We haven't seen much of Freya's introduction, simply because she really didn't want to know.
after 2 days of Chatzi living in his own private room in the house, we brought Freya in for
her to have a look at what was going on. She very noisily showed that she was NOT impressed
by him, and walked straight to the door to be let out. ****
We didn't really try and keep her in, as that would have added to her negative experience
with the newcomer, and that won't help matters at all.
Freya makes a big show of appearing aggressive, but she's more likely to run away than start
a fight. But Chatzi doesn't know that, and he keeps a very respectable distance, just
in case.
The next day, we brought Freya in again. We kept Chazi in his own room to try and encourage
curiosity from Freya and teego, and Teego responded really well - he was curious from
the start, and fascinated by Chatzi.
Freya is a much more timid cat and she wasn't happy when Teego arrived a year ago, and she's
also not happy with Chatzi here either. But she warmed to Teego, and we hope she will
with Chatzi too.
She won't take her eyes off him, but fortunately she's not an aggressive cat, and makes no
attempt to attack him or fight. She just wants out.
She's very noisy and threatening, but in fact, her ears aren't going back, so there's no
indication of a fight about to start, and she's not making any physical gestures to
wards Chatzi like a swat or a bite.
It's interesting that freya's big show of aggression is actually holding Chatzi at bay.
In the previous episode of this series, you see very clearly how confident chatzi is when
Teego is unconfrontational and non agressive
Freya's fierce and noisy growling is only a temporary measure, and unless she backs
it up with a physical demonstration, chatzi will quickly realise that it's all just a
front. But it's an excellent tactic in the wild - a big show of aggression will buy you
time to make an unsure enemy think twice, giving you time to escape.