Should I rehome my kitten

[crazedupmom]

I did have a male adult cat who had been missing over 5 weeks.
Anyway I boought myself a male Bengal predigree kitten, and my other cat has shown up and has taken a dislike to the kitten.
The problems I am having are that the older cat is continually pinning the kitten down by biting him around the neck and is clearly hurting the kitten.
I think there is alot of spraying going on as all of a sudden the house smells like cat pee.
I am concerned for the kitten as the older cat has almost choked him before now.
They have been together over 2 weeks and the problem is getting worse insetad of better.
What would you do.

very difficult, i think it's morally right that older cat takes precedence. You can either wait it out until kitten gets bigger, try and keep them apart ensure litter boxes are seperate and feed them seperately and slowly move their bowls closer etc, or think about rehoming your kitten - which is very sad, but both cats might be happier.

We introduced two kittens to our older cat, kept them in one room at first, slowly increased their territory so the older cat had an idea of their smell etc, then gradually started feeding them at the same time, making a fuss of the older cat. Sadly, our male kitten (totoro) died and idris is now left trying to be all kitteny and playful with grouchy old established cat. They now interact with a bit of swiping and growling, but nothing too scary. they will never be best of chums (Idris and totoro were brother and sister and used to sleep all curled up together...) but they do co-exist relatively peacefully.I'd suggest trying to keep old cat and kitten apart and slowly reintroduce if at all possible - give it a couple of weeks & see if things improve, if not you might have to look at rehoming.

try keeping them apart that what we did and slowly introduce them, the spraying is happening because there are changes even moving a male cats food dish to a new area can trigger spraying, also kittens are notorious for peeing where ever they like, even if they always seem to use the litter tray to you, we recently moved a cupboard in the living room and found 6 poops which we had no idea were there!!!....naughty kitties :)