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Posted: 3:32:22 AM 7/5/2008
Hi! I have a male cat 2years and half old. but he is very agresive. he atac me before few times,at the legs level, but yesterday he jumped on my up part of my body,at the chest. now I am scarred of him. I think he is so agresive is because I have one more cat male,and the first one is very gelouse. They can`t be in the same place in the same time. I keep them every time separate. But Yesterday,the first one came into my room and felt the second cat was there. this made him crazy,and jump at me. I don`t think there is any treatment for this, but any advice will be wellcome. (sorry for eventualy misspelling but english is not my mother language)
Pen2
Posted: 10:02:18 AM 7/5/2008
Have you had your cat neutered yet? That could be one reason he is behaving this way. Another reason could be boredom, do you have lots of toys for him to play with?
Posted: 11:30:54 AM 7/6/2008
Neutering very well may help, it generally makes aggressive males less aggressive. Also, you need to remember that you are bigger than the cat. Don't let him get away with attacking you. I'm sure I will get a lot of greif for saying so, but our family male cat jumped up in my face once when I was a kid. More or less as a reflex I hit him and he went flying across the room. It startled him pretty badly, but he never did it again. Try carrying a sqirt bottle full of water and spray him with it if he attacks you. Let him know that you wont put up with that kind of behavior.

P.S. Don't worry about your spelling. We have had posters here whose spelling and grammar was much worse and English was their first language, so you are doing just fine!
I like most cats better than I like most people.
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catlover
Posted: 8:09:43 AM 7/7/2008
"I'm sure I will get a lot of greif for saying so, but our family male cat jumped up in my face once when I was a kid. More or less as a reflex I hit him and he went flying across the room."

Yep, you're right. I would NEVER strike a pet for any reason. I think of them as my children. Do you teach a child it's wrong to hit others by smacking them across the room? I truly believe that violence begets violence, whether talking about children OR animals. A child (or pet) learns from what it experiences.

My cats have never known anything but love and affection. Yes, I've had a cat bite me or smack me, claws out. Did I hit back? No. Never even considered it. Did they do it again? Yes, but less and less as time went on. They learned that I would never hurt them and they could trust me, no matter what.

I could never forgive myself for hitting a cat and have him "fly across the room". (although if I saw a child do this to a cat, I would be sorely tempted to slap a child across the room!!!)
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Rottluvr
Posted: 9:53:44 AM 7/7/2008
Catlover, are you saying that you don't have a right to defend yourself? If any animal were going for my face, I would fight back. I agree that hitting is not a good form of punishment or training, but that's not what Peaches was talking about, at least not the way I took it. I have used physical force to protect myself as well as my dog from strays and I make no apologies for it.
MaxandAllie
Posted: 11:51:14 AM 7/7/2008
Catlover said she wouldn't strike her pet, not a stray dog that was attacking her. Cats are not something you should need to "defend" yourself from. They are tiny little animals compared to a human. A cat is not going to learn anything but fear and mistrust from being struck by somebody that is supposed to care for them. Squirting with water or shaking coins in a can are effective ways to train a cat without making them fear their owner. My Allie is generally the most docile loving angel, but yesterday I was trying to groom some knots from her and she got snippy with me. Growling and even a hiss because I assume those knots are making her uncomfortable. I just told her it wasn't nice and put her down until she calmed down. There was no need to hit my baby just because she was acting out.
catlover
Posted: 12:10:26 PM 7/7/2008
Let's see-a cat scratches me, so I can either,

A. fling it across the room, or
B. walk away

Hmmm...I'm going to choose "B" every time.

Like MaxandAllie said-it's just a cat! You're not in a fight to the death with a mountain lion!

And comparing being scratched by a cat to your dog being attacked by a stray is just ridiculous. Two totally different scenarios calling for totally different reactions.
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Rottluvr
Posted: 4:25:03 AM 7/8/2008
Peaches said the cat jumped in her face not that it simply scratched her. I think comparing those two situations is "ridiculous." If you are doing something that your pet doesn't like and they respond, of course you shouldn't hit them. If any animal with sharp claws and teeth suddenly goes for your face though, I see nothing wrong with protecting yourself. I'm not an idiot, I know cats scratch and even bite on occasion. Booger was extremely aggressive when he first showed up. He was a baby and had probably been feral for the first 6-7 weeks of his life. I never considered hitting him, even when he drew blood.

***Edited By: Rottluvr on 7/8/2008 5:23:13 AM***
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catlover
Posted: 8:04:07 AM 7/8/2008
Well Rottluvr-we will just have to agree to disagree. I still say that flinging a cat across the room is a severe over reaction, unless it happened to be a rabid cat (and we know that's not the case)
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rainbowzoo622
Posted: 2:01:02 PM 7/8/2008
This topic reminded me of one on another forum - a new member signed up just to ask "If a cat comes into your yard and up on your porch and attacks your child, do you have the right to shoot it like you would a pit bull?" (Of course, with many more misspelling and grammatical errors)
I'm sorry, but I still can't compare a cat attack with a dog mauling either. Domestic cats are not animals a human would need defend against, a large dog is a different story. Though if the above situation were to occur with a pit bull, I would think you would jump in there without pausing to go inside and get a gun, especially sense it would be hard to shoot a dog attacking a small child without also risking shooting the child. It would seem that shooting a dog likely would not be in defense.
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Pen2
Posted: 4:05:56 PM 7/8/2008
I have 2 cats that when they get extremely worked up, could hurt a child definitely, and they have hurt me. They are huge male cats, who I had neutered because of their constant leaping at my legs, or running like psycho's through the house, ripping my curtains, etc. A large cat can bite very hard, and scratch even worse.
I certainly wouldn't compare this behaviour to a dog attack, but to a person not used to cat's bad behaviour, I can see where the OP would be frightened.
Personally, if I had two cats that had to be seperated at all times, I would rehome one of them.
Rottluvr
Posted: 3:42:23 AM 7/10/2008
"Well Rottluvr-we will just have to agree to disagree."

Agreed.
Posted: 2:40:04 PM 7/12/2008
Now, see, I said I would get some grief because I knew you would be the one to make a comment about it Catlover. It must be nice to be so perfect that you don't even have natural human reflexes. My brain did not register "cat". I was a kid. I saw something flying toward my face. I swatted it away. The reaction scared us both. He never jumped at anyone's face ever again.

He was after a section of hair I had "wrapped", as was the trend at the time. He thought it looked like a fun toy.

Catlover, don't you think you are just a little over-zealous sometimes??
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catlover
Posted: 2:57:02 PM 7/12/2008
Me, over-zealous?!!!

Although you did this as a child (which, I can perhaps understand happening) you also made the remark that the cat never did it again. Which sounds to me like a sly suggestion that someone else could try this "method" of training.

As far as me being over-zealous...

You are the one who has given some really off the wall advice on here. Besides your flinging the cat episode above, you have also recommended picking a cat up by the scruff of the neck and hissing in its face, and swatting a cat on the top of its head or in its face.

Not to mention that you bit your cat, and, best of all...you have suggested mounting a cat and pinning him to the floor.

And you call ME over-zealous?
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Posted: 11:11:47 AM 7/13/2008
Hey, what works, works. Cats don't think like humans. Do I regularly bite my cats? No. I did with one cat because nothing else worked. I told you that my cat never jumped at anyone's face again because I don't want you to think that he was a ruffian. He was not. He was a sweet-heart. If I had meant it as advice I would not have recommende a water bottle to the OP. I was simply telling a story. My vet says there is nothing wrong with picking up a cat by the scruff of the neck as long as they are not overweight. If they are obese, the extra weight will cause strain. Other than that, unless you are shaking them or something, it will not hurt them. Cats understand hissing better than they understand English.

Over 100 cats have passed through my home in my lifetime through fostering, not counting the ones I have owned. All but 2 of my fosters were adopted. All of those were well behaved, affectionate, and loving felines. My methods may be a "unorthodox" to say the least, but over-zealous? Not hardly. Do you understand what that term even means? I have worked with a lot of "special" cats. Abuse victims, feral cats, orphaned kittens, and sometimes training them called for special methods. Water does not always work on all cats. Shaking coins in a can can make an abuse victim, or a naturally skittish cat, more skittish.

No one here is required to take my advise. If you hate my posts so much, don't bother reading them. Skip over them and go to the next.
I like most cats better than I like most people.
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
catlover
Posted: 12:44:27 PM 7/13/2008
"My vet says there is nothing wrong with picking up a cat by the scruff of the neck as long as they are not overweight."

Does your vet also recommend mounting a cat and pinning it to the ground? Funny, but in all the cat magazines I have read, and all the seminars I have taken given by PROFESSIONALS, and in all the time I spent working at an animal shelter...not ONE person has EVER recommended doing that. Never. In fact, it never even came up.

When someone gives information that I feel is not only wrong but damaging to a pet-I am NOT going to ignore it!

By the way-if you are only 23 years old and have fostered over 100 cats...how many cats do you have in your home at one time?!!! It's no wonder you are experiencing behavioral problems with that many cats.
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Posted: 1:28:36 PM 7/13/2008
I have been fostering cats since I was 11 years old. I have had as many as 8 cats at one time, varying in ages, for varying amounts of time, depending on how much care they needed before they could be adopted. I was called "the little cat woman" until I stopped fostering (for the most part) when i was 17 (I still took in a few here and there for a while, but the major operation stopped then). I have jounals documenting each cat I have ever fostered, what their background was, how they came to me, methods I used with them, and their progress along the way. The local shelter and THREE local vets gave out my number and recommended me to people that had cats that needed rescued or wanted a guarenteed lovable companion. My advice comes from personal experience, not seminars. I have worked hands-on with professionals and read many books from many schools of thought about cats, but you are right, I have not attended any seminars.

I don't know what kind of seminars you attended, but they obviously did you good because you DO ABSOLUTELY give GOOD sound advice. You really really do!! I just try to give advice from a different perspective, to help out if the norm does not work. I apologize that I infuriate you so, but it is not my intention. I just want people to know what worked for me, especially with some of my "different" experiences. Isn't that why this forum is here?
I like most cats better than I like most people.
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
dusty082155
Posted: 4:18:44 PM 7/13/2008
Okay, back up here. No one really suggested mounting a cat and pinning it to the floor did they ? That is just...OUT THERE ! If i ever tried to pull something like that on my cat Phatboy, i would have so many holes in my belly i could just stand in my yard, drink a glass of water, and water all my plants at the same time ..............
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Posted: 5:15:25 PM 7/13/2008
You crack me up Dusty!!!

But seriously, it's a method usually used by dog trainers, but it can work on agressive felines as well. It is used to establish dominance.

You make an excellent point though, it is important to make sure kitty is "claws down"! hehehehehe!!
I like most cats better than I like most people.
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
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