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suddenly hissing at my other cat over a toy

hi, ok so my lil cat meo who is 7 months old has always had this teddy that he loves to play with but it has never been a problem till now. we have another kitten who is 4months called reacher (BF named that one), and they have been best friends since we bought reacher home. They sleep together and play all day together, reacher even has a habbit on sucking on meos neck when he is sleepy and meo lets him, there has never been a problem, but about a week ago meo started getting protective of his teddy and every time he is near it or playing with it he growls at reacher and stares at him he will even hiss at him and then carry the teddy to a diff room. Reacher knows not to play with meos teddy and isnt really interested in it. What could have changed meo's behaviour and what can i do?
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541150 tn?1306033843
Yep....they sometimes become very possesive over a toy or food. They are both very young, and need to establish certain rules between them. Meo is just telling Reacher to stay away from his toy or else......


Just take pictures when you see this behavior. Once you upload the pics to your computer you will see how funny they look!
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This is very normal behavior at this age.  They are trying to determine who will be the alpha cat.  As long as they are not hurting each other, I would just leave them to work it out between themselves.
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