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Fisticuffs
Every Sunday I go out for a few hours to have a meal with my family. I
leave the back door open and the kitchen fire on so the two cats can come and go as they please. Kitty is beating up Boyfriend tonight. She keeps running after him, and cuffing him. He tried to hide, but she found him and gave him another slap. He peeped from behind the footstool to see if she was waiting for him on the other side - she was. He jumped up on my lap, off my shoulder and hid behind my chair. She found him and slapped him again. At one point they were in the kitchen yowling and growling at each other. Well, I don't know what that's about. Any ideas? Kitty seems to be the instigator of the violence. Could be jealousy I suppose. She lived in the garden for 7 years, and this home was hard-won for her. Maybe she doesn't want to share. She's so grumpy! Don't groom me, don't clip my claws. Stroke me only when I want it, or you will bleed. In fact, just let me do exactly what I want and we won't fall out... She is one tough Kitty FC.. Kitty Fierce Character today. At the moment, a truce. Kitty is on the sofa, here in the room with me, cuddled up on a cushion, and poor Boyfriend is banished to the kitchen. He banished himself. Wise cat. Tweed http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/Tweed/ |
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in article , Christina Websell at
wrote on 11/14/04 2:48 PM: Every Sunday I go out for a few hours to have a meal with my family. I leave the back door open and the kitchen fire on so the two cats can come and go as they please. Kitty is beating up Boyfriend tonight. She keeps running after him, and cuffing him. He tried to hide, but she found him and gave him another slap. He peeped from behind the footstool to see if she was waiting for him on the other side - she was. He jumped up on my lap, off my shoulder and hid behind my chair. She found him and slapped him again. At one point they were in the kitchen yowling and growling at each other. Well, I don't know what that's about. Any ideas? Kitty seems to be the instigator of the violence. Could be jealousy I suppose. She lived in the garden for 7 years, and this home was hard-won for her. Maybe she doesn't want to share. She's so grumpy! Don't groom me, don't clip my claws. Stroke me only when I want it, or you will bleed. In fact, just let me do exactly what I want and we won't fall out... She is one tough Kitty FC.. Kitty Fierce Character today. At the moment, a truce. Kitty is on the sofa, here in the room with me, cuddled up on a cushion, and poor Boyfriend is banished to the kitchen. He banished himself. Wise cat. Tweed http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/Tweed/ I wonder if that New Kitty in the neighborhood is making her do this. Sometimes when new cat shows up, a cat will express its displeasure on a companion cat with displaced agression. Poor Boyfriend. You could pick up some Feliway spray and see if spritzing it around the house, especially the doorways would calm her down. |
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"Karen Chuplis" wrote in message ... in article , Christina Websell at wrote on 11/14/04 2:48 PM: Every Sunday I go out for a few hours to have a meal with my family. I leave the back door open and the kitchen fire on so the two cats can come and go as they please. Kitty is beating up Boyfriend tonight. She keeps running after him, and cuffing him. He tried to hide, but she found him and gave him another slap. He peeped from behind the footstool to see if she was waiting for him on the other side - she was. He jumped up on my lap, off my shoulder and hid behind my chair. She found him and slapped him again. At one point they were in the kitchen yowling and growling at each other. Well, I don't know what that's about. Any ideas? Kitty seems to be the instigator of the violence. Could be jealousy I suppose. She lived in the garden for 7 years, and this home was hard-won for her. Maybe she doesn't want to share. She's so grumpy! Don't groom me, don't clip my claws. Stroke me only when I want it, or you will bleed. In fact, just let me do exactly what I want and we won't fall out... She is one tough Kitty FC.. Kitty Fierce Character today. At the moment, a truce. Kitty is on the sofa, here in the room with me, cuddled up on a cushion, and poor Boyfriend is banished to the kitchen. He banished himself. Wise cat. Tweed http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/Tweed/ I wonder if that New Kitty in the neighborhood is making her do this. Sometimes when new cat shows up, a cat will express its displeasure on a companion cat with displaced agression. Poor Boyfriend. You could pick up some Feliway spray and see if spritzing it around the house, especially the doorways would calm her down. I don't think we can get Feliway in England. I never heard of it before except on this group. The situation seems to have calmed down. Boyfriend is now sleeping on the sort-of-sheepskin in front of the kitchen fire, Kitty is on the rug, also asleep within a few feet of him. Let's hope they've made up. Kitty is just so grumpy! Very old girl. I guess I have to excuse her. Such a shame BF has to suffer from her temper. He is such a nice cat. He is mild and gentle and a bit shy. Kitty gets cross with him sometimes, no apparent reason. Sometimes she is so horrible to him that he's scared to come into the house for his food. I told her off on many occasions for this. She is *so* tiny. Not even half his size, Poor BF (twice her size and more) is scared of her. Whatever she says, he does. She's a bad, fierce kitty. I'm not sure that finding the new kitty in her garden made a difference. It's possible, of course. She would certainly have seen him/her in her garden I'm not sure that's an excuse to beat Boyfriend up. He had nothing to do with it. He could not understand why she did it. "Why are you attacking me when I've done nothing bad?" Poor BF. He'll need to learn that Kitty FC has a nasty temper, she doesn't need an excuse. It's such a shame. He is just so gentle and kind, and she is a terrorist. Tweed |
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"Karen Chuplis" wrote in message ... in article , Christina Websell at wrote on 11/14/04 2:48 PM: Every Sunday I go out for a few hours to have a meal with my family. I leave the back door open and the kitchen fire on so the two cats can come and go as they please. Kitty is beating up Boyfriend tonight. She keeps running after him, and cuffing him. He tried to hide, but she found him and gave him another slap. He peeped from behind the footstool to see if she was waiting for him on the other side - she was. He jumped up on my lap, off my shoulder and hid behind my chair. She found him and slapped him again. At one point they were in the kitchen yowling and growling at each other. Well, I don't know what that's about. Any ideas? Kitty seems to be the instigator of the violence. Could be jealousy I suppose. She lived in the garden for 7 years, and this home was hard-won for her. Maybe she doesn't want to share. She's so grumpy! Don't groom me, don't clip my claws. Stroke me only when I want it, or you will bleed. In fact, just let me do exactly what I want and we won't fall out... She is one tough Kitty FC.. Kitty Fierce Character today. At the moment, a truce. Kitty is on the sofa, here in the room with me, cuddled up on a cushion, and poor Boyfriend is banished to the kitchen. He banished himself. Wise cat. Tweed http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/Tweed/ I wonder if that New Kitty in the neighborhood is making her do this. Sometimes when new cat shows up, a cat will express its displeasure on a companion cat with displaced agression. Poor Boyfriend. You could pick up some Feliway spray and see if spritzing it around the house, especially the doorways would calm her down. I don't think we can get Feliway in England. I never heard of it before except on this group. The situation seems to have calmed down. Boyfriend is now sleeping on the sort-of-sheepskin in front of the kitchen fire, Kitty is on the rug, also asleep within a few feet of him. Let's hope they've made up. Kitty is just so grumpy! Very old girl. I guess I have to excuse her. Such a shame BF has to suffer from her temper. He is such a nice cat. He is mild and gentle and a bit shy. Kitty gets cross with him sometimes, no apparent reason. Sometimes she is so horrible to him that he's scared to come into the house for his food. I told her off on many occasions for this. She is *so* tiny. Not even half his size, Poor BF (twice her size and more) is scared of her. Whatever she says, he does. She's a bad, fierce kitty. I'm not sure that finding the new kitty in her garden made a difference. It's possible, of course. She would certainly have seen him/her in her garden I'm not sure that's an excuse to beat Boyfriend up. He had nothing to do with it. He could not understand why she did it. "Why are you attacking me when I've done nothing bad?" Poor BF. He'll need to learn that Kitty FC has a nasty temper, she doesn't need an excuse. It's such a shame. He is just so gentle and kind, and she is a terrorist. Tweed |
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Christina Websell wrote:
I don't think we can get Feliway in England. I never heard of it before except on this group. The situation seems to have calmed down. Boyfriend is now sleeping on the sort-of-sheepskin in front of the kitchen fire, Kitty is on the rug, also asleep within a few feet of him. Let's hope they've made up. Kitty is just so grumpy! Very old girl. I guess I have to excuse her. Such a shame BF has to suffer from her temper. He is such a nice cat. He is mild and gentle and a bit shy. Kitty gets cross with him sometimes, no apparent reason. Sometimes she is so horrible to him that he's scared to come into the house for his food. I told her off on many occasions for this. She is *so* tiny. Not even half his size, Poor BF (twice her size and more) is scared of her. Whatever she says, he does. She's a bad, fierce kitty. I'm not sure that finding the new kitty in her garden made a difference. It's possible, of course. She would certainly have seen him/her in her garden I'm not sure that's an excuse to beat Boyfriend up. He had nothing to do with it. He could not understand why she did it. "Why are you attacking me when I've done nothing bad?" Poor BF. He'll need to learn that Kitty FC has a nasty temper, she doesn't need an excuse. It's such a shame. He is just so gentle and kind, and she is a terrorist. Poor Boyfriend. That's just what these tiny b/w girlcats are like. Nikki terrorises my niece's cat, Kevin, who is more than twice her size, and he is terrified of her. Happily, she doesn't terrorise Frank, on the contrary, she looks up to him as her protector and surrogate mummy. -- Marina, Frank and Nikki marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki |
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Christina Websell wrote:
I don't think we can get Feliway in England. I never heard of it before except on this group. The situation seems to have calmed down. Boyfriend is now sleeping on the sort-of-sheepskin in front of the kitchen fire, Kitty is on the rug, also asleep within a few feet of him. Let's hope they've made up. Kitty is just so grumpy! Very old girl. I guess I have to excuse her. Such a shame BF has to suffer from her temper. He is such a nice cat. He is mild and gentle and a bit shy. Kitty gets cross with him sometimes, no apparent reason. Sometimes she is so horrible to him that he's scared to come into the house for his food. I told her off on many occasions for this. She is *so* tiny. Not even half his size, Poor BF (twice her size and more) is scared of her. Whatever she says, he does. She's a bad, fierce kitty. I'm not sure that finding the new kitty in her garden made a difference. It's possible, of course. She would certainly have seen him/her in her garden I'm not sure that's an excuse to beat Boyfriend up. He had nothing to do with it. He could not understand why she did it. "Why are you attacking me when I've done nothing bad?" Poor BF. He'll need to learn that Kitty FC has a nasty temper, she doesn't need an excuse. It's such a shame. He is just so gentle and kind, and she is a terrorist. Poor Boyfriend. That's just what these tiny b/w girlcats are like. Nikki terrorises my niece's cat, Kevin, who is more than twice her size, and he is terrified of her. Happily, she doesn't terrorise Frank, on the contrary, she looks up to him as her protector and surrogate mummy. -- Marina, Frank and Nikki marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki |
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Christina Websell wrote:
"Karen Chuplis" wrote in message ... I wonder if that New Kitty in the neighborhood is making her do this. Sometimes when new cat shows up, a cat will express its displeasure on a companion cat with displaced agression. Poor Boyfriend. You could pick up some Feliway spray and see if spritzing it around the house, especially the doorways would calm her down. I don't think we can get Feliway in England. I never heard of it before except on this group. The situation seems to have calmed down. Boyfriend is now sleeping on the sort-of-sheepskin in front of the kitchen fire, Kitty is on the rug, also asleep within a few feet of him. Let's hope they've made up. Kitty is just so grumpy! Very old girl. I guess I have to excuse her. Such a shame BF has to suffer from her temper. He is such a nice cat. He is mild and gentle and a bit shy. Kitty gets cross with him sometimes, no apparent reason. Sometimes she is so horrible to him that he's scared to come into the house for his food. I told her off on many occasions for this. She is *so* tiny. Not even half his size, Poor BF (twice her size and more) is scared of her. Whatever she says, he does. She's a bad, fierce kitty. I'm not sure that finding the new kitty in her garden made a difference. It's possible, of course. She would certainly have seen him/her in her garden I'm not sure that's an excuse to beat Boyfriend up. He had nothing to do with it. He could not understand why she did it. "Why are you attacking me when I've done nothing bad?" Poor BF. He'll need to learn that Kitty FC has a nasty temper, she doesn't need an excuse. It's such a shame. He is just so gentle and kind, and she is a terrorist. Tweed For those in the UK who are interested in Feliway, I did a quick google search. You can get information about the products in this line at www.feliway.uk.com. It looks like there are a lot of online stores that sell Feliway there, and I imagine that if there are chain stores like PetSmart and PetCo over there, they might carry it. A smaller pet supply store might be able to order it for you. - Denise |
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Christina Websell wrote:
"Karen Chuplis" wrote in message ... I wonder if that New Kitty in the neighborhood is making her do this. Sometimes when new cat shows up, a cat will express its displeasure on a companion cat with displaced agression. Poor Boyfriend. You could pick up some Feliway spray and see if spritzing it around the house, especially the doorways would calm her down. I don't think we can get Feliway in England. I never heard of it before except on this group. The situation seems to have calmed down. Boyfriend is now sleeping on the sort-of-sheepskin in front of the kitchen fire, Kitty is on the rug, also asleep within a few feet of him. Let's hope they've made up. Kitty is just so grumpy! Very old girl. I guess I have to excuse her. Such a shame BF has to suffer from her temper. He is such a nice cat. He is mild and gentle and a bit shy. Kitty gets cross with him sometimes, no apparent reason. Sometimes she is so horrible to him that he's scared to come into the house for his food. I told her off on many occasions for this. She is *so* tiny. Not even half his size, Poor BF (twice her size and more) is scared of her. Whatever she says, he does. She's a bad, fierce kitty. I'm not sure that finding the new kitty in her garden made a difference. It's possible, of course. She would certainly have seen him/her in her garden I'm not sure that's an excuse to beat Boyfriend up. He had nothing to do with it. He could not understand why she did it. "Why are you attacking me when I've done nothing bad?" Poor BF. He'll need to learn that Kitty FC has a nasty temper, she doesn't need an excuse. It's such a shame. He is just so gentle and kind, and she is a terrorist. Tweed For those in the UK who are interested in Feliway, I did a quick google search. You can get information about the products in this line at www.feliway.uk.com. It looks like there are a lot of online stores that sell Feliway there, and I imagine that if there are chain stores like PetSmart and PetCo over there, they might carry it. A smaller pet supply store might be able to order it for you. - Denise |
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"Christina Websell" wrote in message I don't think we can get Feliway in England. I never heard of it before except on this group. The situation seems to have calmed down. Boyfriend is now sleeping on the sort-of-sheepskin in front of the kitchen fire, Kitty is on the rug, also asleep within a few feet of him. Let's hope they've made up. Kitty is just so grumpy! Very old girl. I guess I have to excuse her. Such a shame BF has to suffer from her temper. He is such a nice cat. He is mild and gentle and a bit shy. Kitty gets cross with him sometimes, no apparent reason. Sometimes she is so horrible to him that he's scared to come into the house for his food. I told her off on many occasions for this. She is *so* tiny. Not even half his size, Poor BF (twice her size and more) is scared of her. Whatever she says, he does. She's a bad, fierce kitty. I'm not sure that finding the new kitty in her garden made a difference. It's possible, of course. She would certainly have seen him/her in her garden I'm not sure that's an excuse to beat Boyfriend up. He had nothing to do with it. He could not understand why she did it. "Why are you attacking me when I've done nothing bad?" Poor BF. He'll need to learn that Kitty FC has a nasty temper, she doesn't need an excuse. It's such a shame. He is just so gentle and kind, and she is a terrorist. Tweed You know this kind of behavior is pretty common in the animal kingdom. Or among humans for that matter. Boyfriend is just henpecked. And probably not as unhappy with the situation as you might think. Still smile when I remember the pair of parakeets we used to have. Misty and Star. Misty would do anything to try to keep Star happy. He fed her and groomed her and talked to her. And usually got his feathers yanked out for his trouble. Jo |
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