What affects us affects cats
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 …
A cat might be anxious because of something that is happening around them or not far from them. They might be slightly afraid and the normal reaction will be to run away silently and hide. If they are walking at the time, they will lower their body to tense the muscles of their legs …
I have described this as a “screaming match” between two cats. It is more a yowling match. One of the cats is inside the home. That is the resident cat. He considers the home and the area around the home his territory or ‘home range’. Just outside the back door there appears to be …
Yes, sometimes tigers do fight each other at times of flux and tension. The most sought-after resource for male tigers in the wild are females rather than food. Males compete for access to females. Females compete for access to food to feed their offspring. The still image on this page by photographer Harsha Narasimhamurthy …
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 …
I can understand the problem in differentiating between cats playing and fighting. It can be difficult, on the face of it, to tell the difference. This is because domestic cats don’t play like humans. They don’t play Scrabble or Monopoly or chess. They don’t play hopscotch on the pavement. When domestic cats play, they …
This the typical outcome of territorial outside cats. They like high plays so they like to be on roofs but when a cat intruder arrives they might fight on the roof which leads to an inability to observe that they are about to fall off it as they are so obsessed with fighting each …
This is so cute and hilarious. I am sure that they are Munchin kittens – I mean dwarf kittens. You can tell by their shorter than usual legs. This makes them look even more cute. They are doing that typical cat slap in play but with a serious side. However they refuse to make …
