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Have looked through the thread and watched the vids. Meg isn’t like that-she doesn’t follow him, just lies in wait and the “attacks” him. She is not predictable either, sometimes she does it other times not.
I wouldn’t mind so much if it were a scuffle but Ollie doesn’t retaliate AT ALL. He does nothing to provoke her and is just walking past…if she doesn’t want him to then she goes in hard….he backs off with her attatched to his neck, even when she has backed him into a corner and his whole body is saying “you win you win, i give up” she is still going in hard. I’m trying to work out what it is she doesn’t want him to do and i’m beginning to think it is coming near me. We have just had another incident where Meg was cuddling on my lap and ollie was on the sofa next to me. Ash came down the stairs and Ollie went to get off the sofa to make room for Ash, Meg attacked hard and as she pushed towards Ollie ripped my trousers! Ollie yelped and I caught hold of Megs collar and bum! ollie got off and I kept meg on my knee for a bit until she calmed down, then i put her on the floor and she went up to ollie and then came back to me and laid down.
I just have no idea what to do for the best, what to say, what to do. In my opinion this is NOT acceptable behaviour but have no idea how to stop it.
Misty’s thread is a great success but I have no idea how you got to that.
I am completely out of my depth and am probably making the situation worse and making loads more work for me to “undo” later.
Any advice?