Male cat showing severely violent aggression towards female?

Question

This is a three-in-one question.

I've had the male cat (he is the alpha male) for about 6 or 7 years now, and the female was a stray we picked up 3 years ago. Both are fixed. I also have two other males and one other female. They're fixed too. They are all strictly indoor cats and are NEVER outside, apart from tonight when I threw the aggressive male out.

There was aggression to the female when I first brought her in but I figured it was because she was new and all that and that it would eventually fade but it never fully stopped. She was always a very timid, frightened cat that hid in the basement. Well suddenly she popped up with worms this year and I wondered how she got them. She didn't have them when we got her, and now she does but she hasn't been outside since the day I took her in.

1. How could she have gotten them but my other cats didn't?

We got her treated, hoping it would fix the aggression problem. It did, thankfully, and she even came upstairs more and more often. She appeared to be a very happy cat! Until this month, she is getting harassed endlessly by three out of the four other cats, two males and the other female. I suspected that two of the cats were just playing with her but they were a little rough so all she did was run and hide but they have never gotten ahold of her that I have seen.

The real problem is the alpha male. One of the sweetest cats I've ever met but I cannot help but to lose my temper when he violently attacks the female. He rips out tufts of fur, he latches on with his teeth and won't let go, he slashes her continuously. Luckily for her (and him) he has never drawn blood visible to me on her because she has a thick long haired coat. But tonight is when it really got bad. She was yowling because he was so ruthless, almost like he was aiming to kill her. She ran away eventually but he *literally* scared the c**p out of her. She absolutely loves me, I might be the only one, and I could barely pet her because she was so shaken up by the event. This only happens at night when she's not aware of his attacks. And he's in it to win it, there's nothing friendly about these attacks at all.

I have had enough of this. I've tossed him outside for the night, the female can now sleep peacefully for the first time in maybe 3 nights. Usually if I chase the male downstairs he leaves her alone after that, but this time that was not the case. He was determined for results.

2. Why is he doing this and how can I fix it? And why isn't he attacking the other female?

3.Why is this female being ganged up on?

Answer 1

posibly that she was like a diffrent kind of kitty then them or maybe its the fact that she was broght off the street n gets alot of attention perhaps there all rasest against her cause she got worms or maybe the alpha has rabies or something perhaps even its like kitty geniside n the alpha males like a natzi or something idk sounds like a persionality ishuw not a medical thing maybe they were dateing and got into a fight n he was like grr b**** n got pissed...maybe next time they fight u need to smack the bad lil f***er i mean i would i member when i had a dog it bit me so i bit it back n it never bit me again cause i bit hard cause my teath are abnormaly pointy *^^^* lol and i bit him hard maybe u should hold him down n let the girl bit him good on his *** or something or maybe let him be an example to the other kittys yea?

Answer 2

See your local vet,he"ll know the reasons why the cats are behaving badly ?

Answer 3

Well if the male is over 7 yrs of age, it may be just a health issue. I'd suggest a vet visit. I know dogs, as they age, get crankier, it maybe the same with your cat.