Do you break up fights between your animals? I'm just curious how many intervene in the hierarchy of the household pet daily world.
With my three original cats, I let the little female cat dish out some aggressive behavior on the two males. But when the two males would fight, I would often intervene. The dominant cat learned when I yelled his name, he'd better lay down and roll over in a submissive pose. It became rather amusing and cute - he was very smart!
Now with our current three, I rarely break up the fights between the two males. The dominant male is less than half the size of the other male. I figure the bigger male needs to learn to defend himself!
I do, however, constantly break up fights between the dominant male and my female cat. She has no way to defend herself because, unfortunately, she is declawed and the males are not.
