(April 21, 2018 at 9:45 pm)Lutrinae Wrote: The neighborhood cat came over, and my cat just happened to be looking out our wide living room door windows at the time.
She started making these threatening sounds toward this cat who is nothing but friendly.
You have to understand, my cat has never been around other animals, has never had any interaction with any other animals.
This poor cat outside just wants to be friendly and my cat just wants to hiss and make threatening sounds.
Then when I attempt to grab her, she turns around and hisses at me. No, I won't have that. I tell her NO. At least she understands that.
I grabbed her and placed her in the bedroom.
The poor cat outside, though.
It's just so friendly. I peeked out there after I removed my cat, and the cat was still sitting there acting all friendly.
It's a good thing my cat is an indoor cat.
Any animal will do that.
Others know from reading my posts that I just went to Australia in Feb. I went to Steve Erwin's zoo and was lucky enough to pet Koalas and hold one. But that is because those were raised by humans. They did say that in the wild koalas would be far more aggressive.
But, even with pets, if they are raised alone with you, cat or dog, anything foreign to them they will see as a threat.
I had the same reaction with my current cat when I tried to bring in a stray. It is quite normal. If you raise a pet by itself it is less likely to share. If you have several pets at the same time even then, they can develop a pack mentality.
Your pet sees anything it is not familiar with on a regular basis as a threat to it and you.
