That is protective behavior; she’s going all Mama Cat on her oversized hairless kitten. Those are teaching or disciplinary swats. Our Alpha Cat was extremely protective of Kiddo as an infant and toddler. She treated Kiddo like her kitten, and she scaled her responses to Kiddo’s transgressions to her level of “ought to know better.” I am positive that one of the reasons Kiddo wasn’t a grabby toddler is because of our cat.
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