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Dr Fogle calls redirected aggression pain-induced aggression (it is also referred to as ‘transferred aggression’). I have not seen that alternative term before. It seems to me that the pain that is induced can...
In the UK certain dog breeds are automatically considered aggressive and dangerous under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991. This is a dangerous way to assess dog aggression as many individual dogs of these outlawed...
This is one day in the life of my relationship with my cat companion. It might be fairly typical as all these things happen to every cat caregiver from time to time. Or perhaps...
This is an outline of 11 different types of domestic cat aggression that you might be confronted with and how to resolve them. They concern both aggression towards other cats and human caregivers. Intercat...
Introduction: this is a guest article from about 2010 which I have republished as today April 21, 2022, I am writing about feline aggression. by Poochu (India) Sexual aggression 1 Sexual aggression 2 Sexual...
I’ve just bumped into another reason why a domestic cat might attack their own tail. We see a lot of this but it is normally in play. It’s just chasing their tail but if...
BAGCILAR, ISTANBUL, TURKEY: This is a video taken from a television screen of a community cat in Istanbul, Turkey, outside a café where a man with his small dog is walking. The female cat...
I have discussed this before but I have not used the phrase ‘non-recognition aggression’. The interesting aspect of this form of feline behaviour is that the non-recognition is usually, and perhaps nearly always, due...
Except for the first segment in this video, all the other cats have been provoked into aggression by the situation in which they find themselves as created by the videomaker. In other words the...
Cat aggression towards humans can be categorized into three types: play aggression, irritable aggression and referred aggression. I discuss these types of aggression and how to avoid it.
The video is interesting because of the extreme reaction of the family cat when he smells the local stray cat on his owner’s fingers. It’s just the smell and immediately the family cat wants...
When you search, on the Internet, for “redirected aggression” you invariably receive information about domestic cat redirected aggression towards humans. It seems that the term “redirected aggression” is associated with the domestic cat. I...
This is an interesting example of feline redirected aggression. I feel that this very well-meaning lady dealt with the problem in the wrong way which is partly why I wish to write about it....
Is it wise and sensible to use Prozac for cat aggression? It just might be as a last resort but there are many boxes to tick beforehand. The first question to ask is what...
There is a difference between cats playing with people and grabbing their finger with their claws or biting their hand or whatever and genuine aggression towards a person. In play, there can be apparent...
