Imagine, you
are deep in the Serengeti jungle, and you come
face to face with a lion, here are your choices:
 Point
your gun at it, hoping that by being aggressive
towards it, it will apologize to you and back away
shamefully
Run
like the wind
Don't
panic, stay quite calm, and still and wish the
lion isn't hungry.
As you can see your
choices are limited but I wouldn't want to show my
aggression towards it, it will probably get more
aggressive towards you, running like the wind may
save you until the inevitable happens and it
catches up with you, the best option is to stay
calm. It's the same on a smaller scale with our
cats, after all they are related to the big cats
in the jungles and wilds of afar, the more you
wind a cat up the more aggressive it gets, as it
can't speak like humans and say "no", it
speaks with it claws and teeth.
There are many
reasons why cats are aggressive; lets call it
'feline aggression'. Understanding the reasons for
the different types of 'feline aggression' and
then trying to recognize the warning signs may
help you to deal with these incidents of feline
aggression. It's probably best to get a picture of
'feline aggression' in your head.
Imagine some scary
movie - a snarling cat with sharp teeth showing
through a wide-open mouth, its ears flattened back
wards and its wide-open eyes showing a pair of
dilated pupils. Accompany that with a melee of
growls and hisses and it isn't very pleasant.
Understanding the different types of 'feline
aggression' and the reasons for them may help you
deal with your cats aggression.
I'm not painting a
nasty picture of Cats, but like us, they are prone
to random bouts of aggression in various forms, it
may seem an attack on yourself comes right out of
the blue, but more often than not there are
several warning signs, and identifying these
warning signs could prevent some pretty painful
bites and scratches.
If your cat has
wide-open eyes then it is probably in an
aggressive mood, if its pupils are dilated, it
fears some kind of attack on him, however, its
pupils do become very constricted when the cat
tries to threaten back. Other signs are if the cat
has flattened ears or its tail is lashing
erratically, and to even complicate things - a
straight tail with bristle fur is also a sign of
aggression.
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