Cats are naturally aggressive. Discuss.
The title sounds too negative. It almost sounds as if it was written by a cat hater. But no, the words come from the world’s most prolific and best-known veterinarian/author in one of the...
November 29, 2022
The title sounds too negative. It almost sounds as if it was written by a cat hater. But no, the words come from the world’s most prolific and best-known veterinarian/author in one of the...
human causes of cat aggression
January 22, 2021
How do you calm an angry cat? The first thing to do is to remove yourself from the vicinity of the angry cat. Don’t force the issue. This action in itself will solve a...
December 26, 2020
This man, who I believe owns a private zoo and who is playing with his “friendly” and “tame” lion, suddenly finds out that he has riled his lion while playing with him causing the...
human causes of cat aggression
November 11, 2020
On YouTube, there are 8,309 comments for this video and not one, that I can see, answers the question why this nice cat attacked his owner when he opened a Christmas present. They all...
November 10, 2019
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...
human causes of cat aggression
October 20, 2019
She persistently provokes her cat. I believe the cat was a stray cat that she adopted. The cat grows weary of having snow kicked into his face. I think she did it because the...
human causes of cat aggression
July 28, 2019
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...
March 25, 2019
A Turkish community cat attacks men but not women. The video clearly shows this. People are scratching their heads as to why this happens. The cat is outside a market in Istanbul, the country’s...
February 10, 2019
I think that “love bites” is a slightly misleading description of what is happening. There’s not a lot of love in a cat bite although it is frequently done with only a touch of...
September 10, 2018
Do cats get mad at you? This is another part-anthropomorphized cat question. It’s a question which touches upon human behavior which is inapplicable to domestic cats and which in turn makes it a bit...
February 13, 2017
This is a video which I find disturbing. People seem to find it amusing. It is meant to be amusing but as I said I think it is disturbing. The way I see this...
June 7, 2015
It easy to provoke aggressive play in a cat and people should be aware of this and be aware of what they are getting into. I’m not saying that all cats will respond in...
Cat Aggression / human causes of cat aggression
January 10, 2015
Is it true that some short-tempered domestic cats assert their dominance over their caretaker by using violence against them? Perhaps they do but I believe that we must be very careful when we assess...
May 9, 2014
“You can see he is ticked…I don’t know what I have ever done to make him not like me…he bit me….” “My sister’s cat, Max, hates me for some reason. The first time I...
Cat Aggression / human causes of cat aggression
May 7, 2014
The other title is: “Strained Relationship Between Man and Cat” (understatement). I dislike this video because this young bloke is really exploiting his cat by provoking his cat to attack him and at the...