Attacked by your own cat
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Rather derail the Caturday I thought it would be easier to start a new thread. We adopted a cat back in October from cats protection that was labled up as anti social. Her original owner had passed away, ended up in a catenary for a year, CP for a few months, got adopted and returned due to her aggressive behaviour - fair enough. When we saw her and spent time in the pen for an hour we had 1 swipe but was still able to stroke her later on with her purring away. She settled in very quickly and became very inseparable from us - sleeps sometimes on the bed with us or on the landing, happy is sit with us when we are watching tv, follow us around the house. She has still had a swipe at us but from time to time but it’s gone from Claus out to just the palm. On Thursday and Saturday this week both me and the misses has been attacked by her - first time was misses fault with her making cat noises (not to her but close enough for her to hear) and second time was her hearing next doors cat having a barny with another cat - she ran out the door to investigate, I run out to call her back of which she came back and then went for me (and I do mean attack). I had to give her a kick to get her away from me. She has scratched and bitted us so a bit on edge as a whole. The thing is less than 5minutes after attack she’s calling out to us (like she does when she wakes up and not sure where we are, very patheticly sounding). She wants to then be with us and is in a mopey way to apology to us. Other than keeping her way from other cat (house cat), I can’t think what else to do? We don’t really want to return her but worried she would attack someone else
Rather derail the Caturday I thought it would be easier to start a new thread. We adopted a cat back in October from cats protection that was labled up as anti social. Her original owner had passed away, ended up in a catenary for a year, CP for a few months, got adopted and returned due to her aggressive behaviour - fair enough. When we saw her and spent time in the pen for an hour we had 1 swipe but was still able to stroke her later on with her purring away. She settled in very quickly and became very inseparable from us - sleeps sometimes on the bed with us or on the landing, happy is sit with us when we are watching tv, follow us around the house. She has still had a swipe at us but from time to time but it’s gone from Claus out to just the palm. On Thursday and Saturday this week both me and the misses has been attacked by her - first time was misses fault with her making cat noises (not to her but close enough for her to hear) and second time was her hearing next doors cat having a barny with another cat - she ran out the door to investigate, I run out to call her back of which she came back and then went for me (and I do mean attack). I had to give her a kick to get her away from me. She has scratched and bitted us so a bit on edge as a whole. The thing is less than 5minutes after attack she’s calling out to us (like she does when she wakes up and not sure where we are, very patheticly sounding). She wants to then be with us and is in a mopey way to apology to us. Other than keeping her way from other cat (house cat), I can’t think what else to do? We don’t really want to return her but worried she would attack someone else
Sounds to me like a cat that just gets aggressive quickly; mine was a bit like that. The trick is maybe not to make 'cat noises' at it, and realise that she gets very wound up by the sound of other cats fighting. This probably goes back to her previous life and is now engrained. So don't pretend to be another cat, learn to recognise when it's wound up and leave it alone until it calms down. In short, just step back a bit and let her come to you when she's calm.
Mine had been in a cat rescue for about 6 months because she would attack people. That's because she hated every other cat, yet was surrounded by the sight, sound and smell of them. Take a wound up cat, add a human holding its hand out and saying 'Aw what a cute puddy cat let me stroke you' - and wallop. She still has a short fuse but now in a peaceful cat-free zone, she's a, well, pussy cat!
NB You have another cat, a 'house cat'? What is this cat?
Mine had been in a cat rescue for about 6 months because she would attack people. That's because she hated every other cat, yet was surrounded by the sight, sound and smell of them. Take a wound up cat, add a human holding its hand out and saying 'Aw what a cute puddy cat let me stroke you' - and wallop. She still has a short fuse but now in a peaceful cat-free zone, she's a, well, pussy cat!
NB You have another cat, a 'house cat'? What is this cat?
When cats are young they play fight and can be fairly vicious, they learn when it’s too much from their siblings screeching in pain. Saw this with two kittens we adopted. If they scratch or bite you then making a loud clear noise (can just say ow, don’t need to mock cat yowl, but needs to sound like you’re in pain) can help as they’ll know it hurts and will start to modify their behaviour.
If it’s physiological from being mistreated then may not work so well, less familiar with how to deal with that.
If it’s physiological from being mistreated then may not work so well, less familiar with how to deal with that.
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