bjc@drutx.UUCP (CampbellBJ) (04/09/85)
Hi Bob! Your cat is probably just jealous. My 81/2 yr. old acts just the opposite towards his 1 1/2 yr. old companion (both cats). If the younger one gets a spanking (rare - they are sooo hard to catch!) or yelling at, the older one goes to him. He is very protective. I guess I've tried to let him know that bringing in the other one did not usurp his position as king of the house, so he just took the youngster under his paw (as it were). Or if the young one meows really loud (he got caught in the bathroom once when the shower was turned on, the older one raced to the door and tried to open it!), he really races to his side to protect him. Amazing. Perhaps just giving your cat a little extra attention for awhile might do the trick.
mmf@sdchema.UUCP (Marsha Fanshier) (04/11/85)
>Our 7 year old taby has been just as good as one could want. Recently, he >has increased the frequency of a protective (?) behavior that I'm looking >for comments on. > >We also have a 2 1/2 year old neutered male boxer and a just acquired male >boxer puppy (12 weeks old). The puppy has had his ears cropped (no >discussion on the need for ear cropping needed -- it was a hard descision >to make, but he has champion potential and we will probably show him and no >boxer has won with un-cropped ears) and sometimes he whines some when his >ears get caught under him. Well, the cat sees this as an opportunity, and >since the cat still likes to bat the puppy around, the cat comes from >across the room and attacks the puppy! >Bob Kunz Several years ago I brought a puppy home to live with us and our grown cat. I got very upset with the cat for being mean to the puppy but when the pup grew to be a dog many times larger than the cat he still had a healthy respect for the cat. I would also say that cats have sort of a nasty sense of humor. Several people I know who have had the combination of a cat, a dog and a doggie door have found that the cat will sit by the doggie door for hours waiting for the dog to poke his nose out so that the cat can whack it. I guess that's why I've always loved cats -- when you're not as big as the opposition you've got to learn to fight dirty. Marsha
wersan@daemen.UUCP (John Slasher Wersan III) (04/24/85)
> > > >Our 7 year old taby has been just as good as one could want. Recently, he > >has increased the frequency of a protective (?) behavior that I'm looking > >for comments on. > > > >We also have a 2 1/2 year old neutered male boxer and a just acquired male > >boxer puppy (12 weeks old). The puppy has had his ears cropped (no > >discussion on the need for ear cropping needed -- it was a hard descision > >to make, but he has champion potential and we will probably show him and no > >boxer has won with un-cropped ears) and sometimes he whines some when his > >ears get caught under him. Well, the cat sees this as an opportunity, and > >since the cat still likes to bat the puppy around, the cat comes from > >across the room and attacks the puppy! > > >Bob Kunz > > > Several years ago I brought a puppy home to live with us and our grown > cat. I got very upset with the cat for being mean to the puppy but > when the pup grew to be a dog many times larger than the cat he still > had a healthy respect for the cat. > > I would also say that cats have sort of a nasty sense of humor. Several > people I know who have had the combination of a cat, a dog and a doggie > door have found that the cat will sit by the doggie door for hours waiting > for the dog to poke his nose out so that the cat can whack it. I > guess that's why I've always loved cats -- when you're not as big as > the opposition you've got to learn to fight dirty. > > Marsha I too have an ATTACK CAT, she is an 18 year old seal(sp?) point siamese. We got the cat when she was only five months old, we were living in Arizona at the time(Right next to the desert.) What apealed to us about the cat, when we went to get it was, that unlike most of the cats that we saw, it did not lick our hands, purr, and other things that just say "Take me home, PLEASE", no this cat was different, first off when we went to pet the cat, it swatted our hand, an appealing trait! This was only the start, since we lived near the desert, the cat would disappear early, showing up latter in the day with presents for my mother, in the form of LIVE animals. A born hunter. This cat was so fast that it could catch a jack-rabbit (Them buggers `taint slow). When the cat was little my father use to torment the cat, one day the cat payed him back. It sat on top of our refrigerator, waiting for my father to walk by, when he did the cat leaped out and attacked his head, scoring a critical hit on the forhead! Needless to say, my father NEVER tormented the cat again, then came time for us to move cross-country. The cat got bored with the log drive, and decided to go to sleep, one small problem, it went to sleep on the ACCELERATOR! after fighting the cat for five or ten minutes, we got it off the accelerator, but not before reaching the speed of 80 mph. This was not the end, not by a long shot. The cat loved our new neighborhood, and took great pleasure in chaseing dogs all around the neighborhood, some the dogs were about 200 Lbs. (The cat never weighed more than 10 Lbs) After the age of 15, the cat started to slow down, now it old torments those dogs that stray into it territory. Which I believe encompasses around 10 blocks. What will happen next is anybodys guess, but it most likely WILL be interesting. -- John Wersan UUCP : decvax \ "Any statements made are not mine, dual \ this computer has me mistaken for rocksanne >!sunybcs!daemen!wersan someone else, of lower intelligence." watmath / rocksvax /