What affects us affects cats
Sometimes in multi-cat homes a cat might bully another or others. Normally, the reason is because there isn’t enough space for individual cats to call their own. Their compressed home ranges overlap which causes stresses which can lead one cat who is dominant to bully another. It might not be readily apparent that one …
The question in the title is a little extreme some might think. There’d be right but I’m looking at some extreme examples in the human-to-cat relationship. We know that in multi-cat homes there are instances of one cat bullying another. A dominant cat bullying a submissive cat. We also know that in homes where …
Background Sir Walter Scott was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright and historian. His works are classics of both English-language literature and of Scottish literature. One of his famous titles is The Lady of the Lake. He lived with a cat companion who he gave the extravagant name ‘Hinse of Hinsefeldt’. Hinse and Feld …
In multi-cat households a hierarchy might naturally develop where the cats are unrelated and have joined the group at different times. There may be a dominant cat and some bullying to impose dominance.
Harmonious group of cats – photo by Giane Portal (Flickr name: fofurasfelinas) I don’t think there is such a thing a cat bullying. From the human perspective it looks like bullying. I believe that bullying is exclusively a human concept. It has been defined as when a person is “exposed, repeatedly and over time, …
