A Michael Broad Blog
When domestic, stray or feral cats – usually males – fight over territory there is blind fury. The fighting can be horrendously aggressive and they often fight with complete abandonment of concern for personal injury to themselves which means they can fall off roofs for example. Fights can take place on flat roofs because …
I was going to ask if small cats fight but that’s a dumb question because all of us know that they do and fights can be horrendously fierce and sometimes seriously damaging. It all stems from being non-social animals (for all the small wild cats) and therefore solitary with a desire to protect that …
Lion and tigers, the two biggest cats have the ability to regard humans as dominant if humans stare into their eyes when under attack by either. If a human stares like this is signals dominance and the cat is taken in by it as it seems they have the ability to perceive us as …
A domestic cat companion’s eyes are expressive. There are probably five basic eye configurations: Wide-open pupil i.e. a dilated pupil with wide-open eyes Narrowed eyes with a narrow slit of a pupil Half-closed eyes with the pupil in a relaxed mid-range position Closed eyes Stare Background The pupil is the aperture of the eye …
The question in the title should be extended to feral and stray cats and the answer is the same in any case. Territory The root cause of the majority of domestic cats fighting is a defence of their home range. The ‘home range’ is the territory which they consider their own. It is interesting …
Rarely, domestic cats fight to the death. A cat may die of their injuries. However, there are many caveats to that statement. In the urban environment, outdoor domestic cats, in general, get along well by avoiding each other even making friends. Domestic cats are, after all, quite sociable. Fights normally take place between male …
