Cat advice help! one cat bugging and stressing out the other?

Question

I got a kitten before Halloween, things were rough but they ot used to each other. however the kitten bugs my older cat, she cant walk freely around the house without him tackling and play fighting with her, but he is rough.
i tried the water bottle, i tried pulling him away but he just runs right back to her. she is so jumpy and always growling and hissing, she will slap him but not hard enough to learn for him to leave her alone.
he is getting fixed asap, he needs to be 6 months though and he isn't old enough. i think its territory dominance thing, and im hoping fixing him will calm him down. but that's a month and a half two months till he reaches 6 months.
what other things can i do? i really dont want to have to give him away.. but if nothing works im going to need to...
any real advice or links to something will help, im trying to play with him more to tire him out but he destroyed all the feather toys. XO think its time for a laser pointer. but when im sleeping i cant really pull them apart, i will wake up in the middle of the night with my older cat running up the stairs hissing cuz he follows her when she tries to get away from him.
please help!

Answer 1

I see you are posting from Canada. In the US, neutering can be done as early a 8 weeks/2 pounds, and the SPCA is advising all pet owners to have their pets spayed or neutered in the fourth month.



So I would start looking for a vet that will do the neutering now. But that is more precautionary since what you are seeing is a quest for which cat will be alpha.



She is trying to assert being alpha, but as a kitten, he isn't listening. She will have to lay down the law, so to speak, for there to be any real progress. Or she will have to surrender alpha status to him.



If she surrenders, then he simply becomes an annoyance to her. And she gets a bit more exercise as he chases her.



To you, it looks terrible. It actually is not as bad as it looks, but I do read your concern. While you may think two months is a long time, it really isn't that long of a time for things to settle out.

Answer 2

That happened to my older cat and little kitty but the kitty grew out of it and she just needed a lot to do besides attack thr other cat...at night we would just seperate them...one upstairs one downstairs or in diffrrent rooms with toyd and a luttle but of food and of course a litterbox...there id a laser toy that you can order online thay is pretty expensive but it lasers by itself and my kitty also liked chasing a ball thay is trapped in a ring and crinkly balls...catnip alsi works but it can also make them a littler crazy haha..don't give her away or anything...they'll learn to gey a long even if they aren't best buds

Answer 3

Cat nip...lol. get it a toy you can pit catnip in, it sounds like the cat needs something to do, so just keep toys for it around, it'll calm down when its fixed i got a kitten that did the same thing then he got fixed and ALOT calmer.