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we had a big fat cat that would hiss at kittens, it became a running joke in the family, being a pussy that hiss at kittens
I got 2 kittens a few years ago for my calico who liked watching kitten videos on YT. She did NOT like the kittens in person. We addressed her as Hissy Sissy to the kittens. The kittens had been weaned too early (due to their foster mama cat getting kitty flu pretty bad and the rescue had to quarantine her). So the kittens were all about trying to get to know Hissy Sissy. She had had a hard street life before we found her, and didn't trust other animals. I was swerved by her YT habits, but her kitten curiosity didn't extend to in-person kittens. Sadly her kidneys quit on her so I'll never know if she would have eventually warmed up to them.
I picked up my daughters cat in the turn lane during lunch traffic one day. She was very young and grew up unsocialized. She was hostile to all animals until one day she wasn't. She chilled out and started playing and snoozing with other cats. It only took ten years.