#feline aggression

[mcnostril]

Today on mcnostril.com: Disturbingly graphic feline aggression.

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[vintage-tigre]

[happyhealthycats]

Hi!! I just wanted to add to the cat aggression post. My kitty is wonderful and loving! But I adopted her at the age of 4 and she had play aggro issues. She will get “stuck” and fixated on prey (my leg or arm or foot) and going limp, saying “no”, and holding still did not work. I would have to peel her teeth and claws off. Now I keep a sweater so when she hunts me, I dangle the sweater between us to block her view and THEN I walk away. This keeps us both safe while she cools off!

As I’ve said before, saying “no” actually encourages the cat to continue biting and attacking, so half the issue may lie in that.

This level of aggression is a pretty serious one, and if you’re making it work for you, that’s good. But others may not be able to deal with something similar. 

[crazylittleaby]

Had to up Sierra's meds because she's had 4 asthma attacks over the last three days. Downside to that is it ups her aggression~ Still, it's been awhile since she's attacked me. Today my Niece was crying because she sprained her finger, she was calling me from the washroom crying. I hobbled down the hall on my crutches...the crying triggered Sierra and since I'm her target, she went after me. Being on the crutches, there was nothing I could do to stop the attack and of course every scream made her more angry. The blood is from where she grabs to hold on tight so she can bite super hard...and those bites will bruise. I'm very lucky I didn't fall over because that could have been bad and that my Mum was able to coming running to distract her.

[wanderlust-and-poetry]

My cat munchkin.

We may have to give her and her kittens to someone with no pets because her aggression is too much. This is not at all what I want to do, I've only had her for like two years but this is so sudden. She's making the other cats in the house scared, she cut my cat mama to the point she was bleeding. It wasn't a bad cut though. She's not aggressive with people, just the other cats. But not her kittens of course. But I don't know what to do. We've tried taking her to the vet and we can't figure out what's wrong with her. We tried having her stoned most of the time (catnip lol) and that didn't work. My mom found this thing, I guess it's a scent diffuser and it releases some sort of hormone to help cats stay calm? My moms going to grab it and if that doesn't work, we are going to try one of those "thunder shirts/vests" they are meant for cats with anxiety from thunder storms but it's worth a shot. I might just have to keep her locked in my room, (it's fairly big and her kittens are there too obviously) I have a bed, food, water and a litter box in there for her, but oh my god she just scratches and scratches to get out and I can't get any sleep. I haven't slept in over 39 hours. Not even a minute so I'm so exhausted and on edge. I just want to know why this is happening. She other cats are nowhere near the kittens when munchkin attacks, she's had kittens once before and she was never like his and we've had cat #1 mama, for over 10 years, cat #2 for about 4 years? That cat is munchkins birth mom and we've had my cat Jasper for almost a year but she's never had issues until a few days ago. When she attacks the cats, it's so loud and fast and vicious and I'm the one that has to grab munchkin because either my moms too slow of I'm the only one home and when I put munchkin back in my room I have a panic attack, I can't breathe normally if at all, I sit on the floor and shake, I cry, and honestly all of this is so bad for my PTSD. ALSO, I feel like I'm abusing her by having her in my room most of the time. But my other cats are at risk. Mama is old, she was a stray so we don't even know how old she is but she's getting there, and my other two cats are small. Poor Jasper too, I think he's got anxiety, he gets scared of certain noises and none of my other cats do that. I just want everything to be okay, maybe munchkin will stop when the kittens are older, I just can't give her away. I can't. This was so long, I'm sorry I just needed to talk about it. I'm worried, scared, confused, angry and sleep deprived.

[crazylittleaby]

The other day my Mum was on the phone, the talking (even though it wasn’t loud) triggered Sierra. And although I was laying on the couch, reading quietly…she ran over and bit me hard on the arm.

I was screaming because she went deep and kept at it, I was having trouble dislodging her. Finally got her off me and washed off the wound. It wasn’t bleeding and doesn’t look like much but it’s swollen and feels like someone punched me hard. The bruising is still coming up and is probably going to look pretty bad. It’s not infected at least and I’m keeping an eye on it. It’s going to make swing dancing this Friday sorta painful~

In the pic is the worst of it, that’s her top teeth, the bottom teeth got me on the underside and it’s not going to show up from this angle.

On the plus side, she hasn’t got me this bad in awhile and I’m glad, for whatever weird reason..I’m her target.

It’s also why I refused to speak on voice chat during my Skype meeting last night. I kept headphones on and just typed my stuff so as not to set her off.

I really wish she didn’t need to be on steroids but they are what work best for her asthma right now.

[delightfullyunsurerunaway]

Gonna start portioning Lilly's food. She's not happy with the "lack" of food she's getting. So far shes cornered me, while aggressively meowing and hissing at me when I went to the fridge for lunch. May need to start looking into local behaviorists :/

[kaurii]

I'm not sure what's giving me more anxiety: law school or my roommate's fucking rude ass cat. I've googled "feline aggression" & I think I've concluded he might be mad at me for the few times I scolded him (as I would my dog back home) for hissing, swiping or just flat out bothering the shit out of me. But like... I don't understand any of these fucking remedies. "Do not punish a cat like you would a dog!" AHHH. BUT I'M SO MAD AT IT. WHY DOES THIS BITCH WANT TO FIGHT?!?! I'LL THROW A BUCKET OF WATER AT IT IF IT DOESN'T CHILLAX OMFG.

He's started blocking off my path to the kitchen/my room, meowing loudly until I pet him then hissing loudly and swiping at my ankles when I stop and try to walk past him. LOOK FATASS, I HAVE WORK TO DO. GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY FACE. oh goooodd.