Cats fighting?

[polo_princess]

Ive been starting to let my kitten go outside over the last few weeks, but he is getting stalked by a bigger cat (male i think) and it just keeps attacking him all the time, its sitting on my kitchen windowsill as we speak stalking him through the window. It sits in our back garden and waits for Archie all the time Obviously i dont let him out if i know its out there waiting.

Archie is only 6 months but he's very small for his age because he was hand reared, and as much as he tries to fight back this other cat is just way to big and mean for him.

Is there anything you can do to deter it? He's booked in to have the snip in a couple of weeks time, will that help? Or is it just one of those things? Why does this cat have so much interest in Archie?

This cat is the only one that theres a problem with, others pass through our garden but tend not to bother, its just this 1 from a couple of doors down Funny thing is, they are exactley the same colour and have the same markings, but Archie is shorthair and this other one is long

 

[PepsiChic]

the other cat has interest for a couple of reasons,

your cat is amle and not snipped, he can smell the hormones of another male in the area and has come to show him whos boss.

that male cat has been allowed to come into your garden before and so has claimed it as his territory, now someone else (your cat) is in HIS territory.

you need to chase that cat off, spray it with water every time you see it. or throw a ball near it it to spook it if you cant get close enough to it to spray it.

over time it'll come into your garden less and less. cats will always fight, especially if the other cat is not fixed, btu theres not a lot you can do about it, he'll soon establish his own territory in your garden and get more confident.