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 in …
Physically, of course, FIV-positive cats can go outside. This is a moral question more than anything else. It’s a question about protecting other cats who are FIV-negative. If you let a FIV-positive cat go outside they may pass the disease to a FIV-negative cat. Although transmission isn’t that easy. Close or casual contact alone is …
Fighting aficionados want to know who would win in a fight between a domestic cat the size of a Rottweiler and a Rottweiler. An important aspect of the question is that it refers to a “domestic cat”. Arguably, domestic cats have lost some of the inherent aggressivity and mental sharpness of their wild cat forebears. …
If a domestic cat was the same size as a Rottweiler, which would win in a fight? Read More »
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 feral …
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 other. …
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Thankfully, we don’t have actually results! I’ll speculate. Seventy-five percent (75%) of the time the cat would win. A domestic cat that weighed 130 pounds would fall into the weight range of the large wild cat species such as the leopard, puma, cheetah and jaguar. The domestic cat is a cat’s whisker from the wild …
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Do wild cats fight for their territory? In general, the short answer is yes but the social system of lions is different. Also fights are avoided by scent marking and visual marks laid down by the resident cat which sends a clear signal to strangers by transmitting information such as residential status and the sex …
This is a nice family home in which there are two pets cats who are fighting. There is animosity between them. Jackson Galaxy has been called in to try and sort it out. The video explains his three-pronged attack on resolving this difficult cat behavior problem. A not untypical problem. One of the cats, Farnsworth, …
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The PDSA (People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals) a charity and a chain of animal hospitals in the UK, have provided a useful report on various aspects of cat ownership in the UK. One of their statistics tells us that 58% of cats live as the only cat in a household while 42% of cats or …
I think the answer to this question can be found in the relationship between the cats. If the relationship is good and they are friendly with each other, they may play/fight especially if they are young. This will be ‘play’ because for a cat playing is fighting. If this play-fight gets out of hand one …
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I received a comment on a page that I had written about lynx kittens fighting each other. Apparently it’s quite common. And it can go on and on for months. Lynx and bocats are in the same family of cats and are very similar in appearance and characteristics. The person’s comment was as follows: “I …
I Have Two Bobcat Kittens and They Fight Viciously. What Can I Do? Read More »
View post on imgur.com This is rather mysterious cat behavior. The kittens have been dumped onto a hard surface; I suspect for the purpose of making the video. They are probably looking for their mother and a warm surface. The kittens are not roughhousing in my opinion. The father seems to think that they are …
Fighting Cats is something I rarely see but hear. The very special sound of a Tom cat howling in a standoff is very distinct. Cats fighting is a mixture of Sumo Wrestling, Poker and Politics. It is rarely seen in the wild as there is sufficient space for male cats to have their own territory. …
