Posted on 04/16/2005 9:31:21 AM PDT by Rakkasan1
One minute you are enjoying a tender moment petting your purring cat and then, suddenly, your lovey-dovey kitty whirls around and attacks you.
Cat lovers pull away wondering, "What just happened?"
"Most of these problems can be linked to people who acquire kittens too young in the belief that they'll develop a closer bond with the cat," explains Carolyn Osier, a breeder of cats for more than 30 years and an all-breed judge for the Cat Fancier's Association.
Having watched almost 300 litters of kittens develop, Osier notes that, just like children, certain feline social skills develop at different times. A kitten acquired at six weeks of age may be fully capable of eating from a dish and using a litter box but still needs to master social skills such as learning how to fight and play together. Kittens learn their more serious fighting and predatory skills by engaging in what look like serious tussles but actually are play battles that don't involve the use of teeth or claws. If a kitten chomps or claws too hard, the game is over, and he learns he has to control himself with family.
Given the importance of these skills for the cat's survival, missing these lessons sets the stage for problems later.
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I love that.
That is hilarious!
"Last week we had to put down our beloved 18-year-old cat..."
So sorry to hear that, I still miss my beloved "Normy", best cat I ever could have!
ROTFLMAO!
o/~ C'mon baby...let's do The Twist... o/~
Thats the best! LOL!
This cat adopted us. He's HUGE and mean. He attacks me when I stop petting him. Ha! We named him Rock. Can't let him in the house because he hates our 3 indoor cats and he'd rip them to shreds. He has the run of the yard and we have no problem with other critters coming on our property, including dogs.
Our neighbor witnessed Rock running up on the FRONT PORCH of another neighbor and chasing their two dogs right off their own front porch.
Rock attacks because he can and because he likes to.
Cat Mauls Man Showering Parrot
http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=80716&page=1
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Just for grins, Kitties. :)
I have a cat who, when younger, deliberately knocked over glass objects so he could enjoy them smashing on the floor. I had to hide everything glass. He'd leap up on a table or shelf and go hunting. Maybe he was bored, but he stopped when there was nothing left to smash to bits. Now he contents himself with sitting on whatever you're reading or trying to write. Also smacks my mini dachshunds around from time to time. Nothing serious, no blood spilled on either side.
Methinks your snake will love your new putty
. . . once
When my daughter, Heather, was a teenager, we had a Siamese cat who thought she was Heather's mother. She tried to teach her to hunt, to be a proper cat. You could read the disgust on Katie's face as she thought how bald H was, and why wasn't she down on all fours, for heaven's sake! And the lack of a tail! H went off to college, and Katie was furious. After a few weeks, she transferred her maternal eye to H's younger brother, and when he went off to school, was again furious (mad at me). She saw the empty boxes in the hall and knew, then yelled at me, demanding that I stop him. You could read this cat like a book, and she had 'the death stare', that she'd bore into the back of some other luckless cat. After a minute, the fur on the victim's back would begin to twitch, then he'd turn around, goggle at Katie and run for his life. It was like living with Attila the Hun.
"It was a real carnage: there was blood all over the place — on the the ceiling, the floor and the walls. The cat was really traumatized by the water," Theriault added.
What the heck! the cat was traumatized? what about the old guy whose blood was "all over the place"...
OMG! That is hilarious!
Thanks for posting that.
Best laugh I've had all week.
"A kitten acquired at six weeks of age may be fully capable of eating from a dish and using a litter box but still needs to master social skills such as learning how to fight and play together."
My two current (adopted) cats are total "social retards." They're sisters who were always fostered out and have never had a permanent home before our house. They've been with us nearly three years now, but I don't trust them around visiting kids because they will do the old "Please pet me, I wuv you! / I WILL KILL YOU!" bait and switch.
I can tell when they're getting over-stimulated, so I just walk away from them when they're getting "weird" that way. No scratches so far; a hiss once in a while.
The things we do for love...
That would be one dead cat if it were mine
I have 2 cats. One can be mean. She gets on the table and if the other cat is on the floor near the table she knocks things off trying to hit the other cat on the head.
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