What should I do if a female cat looks down on a male cat’s behavior?

 9:24am, 8 June 2025

As a cat slave, I deeply understand the prejudice of female cats against male cats.

Unless you have sufficient knowledge and the right approach, it is difficult to overcome this problem.

Today, I will share some possible useful methods to solve the problem of female cats looking down on male cats.

First, we need to understand why this problem occurs.

Female cats have territorial consciousness and their nature to protect themselves.

When a strange male cat comes to the female cat's territory, she will remain vigilant and become hostile to it to protect herself and her territory.

This behavior is common in nature, but it creates problems in our homes.

First of all, we need to ensure the comfort of the female cat.

An uneasy female cat will become hostile to everything else.

We need to provide adequate space, a safe environment and sufficient food and water for female cats.

This reduces her alertness to other animals.

Secondly, we need to properly guide the encounter between the female and the male cat.

Female cats need to adapt to the smell and timing of their appearance.

We can introduce the smell of male cats to female cats, such as placing the male cat's hair on the female cat's bed, which allows female cats to gradually adapt to the smell of male cats without direct encounter.

When the female cat adapts to the smell of the male cat, we can start slowly guiding the female cat and the male cat to have face-to-face encounters.

We need to make sure that the encounter occurs in a comfortable, peaceful and relaxed environment of the female cat, which can relieve the female cat's tension.

If the female cat starts to become anxious, the two cats should be separated and take a break.

At the same time, we also need to control the behavior of male cats.

Male cats usually become excited and chase and attack the female cat.

For this case, we can let the male cats move within the female cat's line of sight, but do not let them get too close.

We can also use some partitions between female and male cats to separate them.

The most important point is patience.

Female and male cat need time and patience.

We need to insist on gradually guiding them to contact until they gradually become familiar and friendly.

In short, the problem of female cats looking down on male cats can be solved, but we need to provide appropriate environment and correct guidance.

We need to ensure the comfort of the female cat, adapt to the smell of the male cat and gradually guide the two cats to meet, while patiently waiting for them to gradually establish a friendly relationship.