Week 3 with Yochi

This is actually the start of week 4. Both cats are still alive. 

I was almost giving up last week bcos Yochi was so aggressive towards Mochi after his vaccination. I had hope that his aggressiveness would simmer off. He did, but Yochi still doesn’t love Mochi. 

Yochi still sleeps in the service yard most nights but managed to jail break on 2 mornings, when we didn’t close the service yard door properly. I was shocked on those 2 mornings to hear Yochi meowed so loudly outside our door for bfast. Otherwise, Nana adopts him on some nights. 

While the attacks are less frequent as compared to the day after his vaccination, it is still a few times a day. Mochi has learnt to “fight back” by trying to gently paw (or pretend to try to paw) and hissed (once) at Yochi but he is definitely no match. Mochi just usually runs away and Yochi will give chase. We lost count of the times that we had to stop/ block Yochi from chasing and attacking Mochi. Mochi didn’t seem to be hurt but he always looks so pathetic. Our heart aches for our resident cat. I lost count of the times that Yochi force Mochi to a corner and Mochi was just sitting that helplessly while waiting for us to save him.

Yochi is so affectionate with humans. Nana says that Moxhi will sleep at her feet but Yochi will sleep everywhere on her bed and on her. He just simply doesn’t like Mochi.

We let Yochi out of the service yard when we are home but I would usually either stay in the same place as them so that I can keep an eye on them or keep one of them in the room to save the trouble. 

I was working from home on Monday and both cats were roaming in the house. They don’t fight when it is meal time or for most part of the day bcos they are both sleeping somewhere. The fighting problem usually happen in the morning and evening after meals. Oh ya, Yochi eats so much more than Mochi but is still so lean. Anyhow, he is always meowing for food. 

Mochi seems to have accepted the fact that Yochi is the alpha male and many times tiptoe past him. That is so sad! He doesn’t provoke Yochi as much now (I think) but Yochi still 看它不顺眼 from time to time and will decide to attack Mochi for no reason. 

There had been occasions that I came home to both cats roaming in the house. Apparently somebody had decided that they have turned good friends and no longer fight. Or they simply forget. On those occasions, they are left alone for a few hours. I duno if Mochi was bullied then or maybe Yochi will only turn aggressive on Mochi when there are humans around. 

I duno how long we still can cage Yochi. He is always so vocal when we lock him that we were afraid that we would disturb the neighbours. Haiz, when does it take for them to live in harmony? 

I already stopped Yochi from chasing Mochi 2x this morning. Zzzzzz.

Mummy Lim