How To Handle Aggresive Cat Behaviour

Does your cat attack your other pets? Does it attack the new cat you brought home? Or does it fight along with your pet dog? Animal behaviorists have different names for all these behaviors. When kitty attacks your pet mouse, or the bird in the garden, it's called predatory aggression. It is just following its natural instinct to look for prey. Unfortunately, it is difficult to prevent this kind of behavior. The most effective you can do is put a collar with a bell on your cat. This may keep it from sneaking up on its prey. It's also wise to keep your other smaller pets (like your pet hamster) far from your cat.

Fear aggression is yet another instinctive behavior. How will you recognize when kitty is frightened? It hisses, bares its teeth, and crouches low using its tail and legs tucked under its body. It flattens its ears against the top, the pupils dilate, and the fur stands on end. To the person triggering this reaction, it almost seems as though your cat has doubled in size. Just the same as a puffer fish doubling its size to frighten its enemies away. Push kitty further and it might attack.

So, so what can you do? For a start, you ought not try to pet or console your cat when it displays this frightened yet aggressive behavior. Petting your cat in this situation not only could allow you to get hurt, it reinforces in kitty that this behavior is okay. You do not want this to happen. Though it seems uncaring, it is much better to ignore kitty in this mood.
Where possible, you wish to gradually desensitize kitty towards this trigger. Treat it such as for instance a phobia in an individual being. Expose kitty to driving a car trigger a secure distance away for brief periods of time, and reward it with treats when it doesn't show aggressive behavior. Once it gets used to the trigger at a particular distance, gradually decrease the distance. Eventually, like a human being, your cat will stop being afraid.

The other kind of aggression which in turn causes kitty to attack other animals is called territorial aggression. This signify kitty will chase or fight with the new cat which you bring home. It is wanting to protect its territory. If this happens, you should take their introduction to each other slowly.

First, you will need to confine both of these with their own quarters. Let them hear and smell one another, but don't allow any physical contact.
When they become accustomed to one another similar to this, switch their quarters. Let kitty investigate the newcomer's smell, and let the newcomer investigate kitty's smell and its new home.
After this, place them in exactly the same room, but at opposite ends of the room. Let them eat, to be able to condition them to associate food with each other's presence.
Slowly bring then closer to each other.
Finally, free them from their carriers and feed them, while ensuring they can't attack each other.
When they eat their food and remain calm only at that stage, then you are successful. Be warned that this will take weeks and even months.

In the long run, there's no single way of keeping your cat from attacking another animal. You must be patient and make use of a complete process.

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