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 has kittens to protect so she instinctively attacks the man who lifts up his dog by the lead to protect …
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 to the inability of one cat who is friendly towards another to suddenly be unable to recognise the scent or …
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 intention is to provoke these cats into becoming aggressive and then filming them to make a compilation which I found …
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 to attack and such is his hatred that he will even attack his owner’s hand. It is a bit sad …
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 would like to turn that on its head, temporary, and discuss redirected aggression in humans when the victim is a …
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. It was not her fault unless you believe that all cat owners should have a good knowledge of cat behaviour. …
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 does Prozac do? We know it is used a lot by people and in general terms it is described as …
