For the most part, I've been a dog person all my life. You may remember my post about Harry, my 10 year old black cocker spaniel, and his blown ACL's a few months ago. We're 6 weeks since his second (left knee) surgery and he's doing very well. With the way he was walking on it the day stitches & cast were removed, the doc says give him 2-3 months and it will be like nothing happened. We only started letting him walk up & down the stairs 2 weeks ago and he's doing just fine. Still a little stiff as the wire limits knee flexibility but otherwise fine. MY issue is with Crazy Leo, the now 4 1/2 month old orange tabby that someone else wanted - and is now almost regretting as well..

We got him at 7 weeks old. Yeah he's cute and I know he's a kitten but there are behavior issues that are wearing thin. Harry is very mellow and docile when it comes to other animals. Even though he's an energetic and healthy 10 years old, he really doesn't want to be bothered by Leo when he's sleeping or laying around. Leo will jump on him, bite at him and the point of concern for me, biting at Harry's back legs when he walks on the tile floor, sometimes causing him to fall. I yell at Harry (as if he understands me lol) to kick his ass. I figure if Harry at least took a piece out of him, so to speak, just once, Leo will stop messing with him.

They sleep together (sometimes) just fine. Most of the time when Harry is just laying around sleeping, Leo just jumps on him. Rather than biting, Harry just gets up and goes to another spot. This is particularly annoying at bed time. Like yesterday as an example. They both were just about asleep when we went to bed around 11pm. With our new bed being much taller than the old and his knees, Harry sleeps on the floor next to our bed on an old comforter & blanket. Leo seems to think bed time is attack Harry time. Other times when he seems calm, he jumps on the bed & sleeps with us, only to start his kamikaze attacks in the middle of the night - not real thrilling for me as I get up at 5am.

The water bottle stops him til he comes out from under the bed again. I've taken to chasing him out of the bedroom with the water bottle then closing the door. Then after a few minutes of being alone in the living room, he starts whining and clawing at the bottom of the door. This has been going on for 10 days now and I'm getting sick of it. We thought by now, Leo would get the message but so far, no luck. Any suggestions before I see if I can land Leo into the Trinity River from my balcony ?!?! (kidding)

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