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KITTEH MAULINGS!

pappel64

4/23/09 12:37 am

I is upset right now :( .

There was a cat fight outside the house and my cat Garfield got anxious. When he was watching it through the window he was breathing heavily and his heart was pounding. When I put him on the floor...HE MAULED MY LEGS!

In the three years that I've owned him this is the first time he attacks me. I don't understand why. I didn't attack him, annoyed him or said anything to upset him. The only logical explanation is that he wanted to view the fight and when I dropped him he just went nuts!

I'm so upset... :(

-pap64

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• edgarverona

  4/23/09 06:00 am (UTC)

  

  If it helps, I think his reaction was more gutteral than that. It's not so much that he wanted to see the fight... fighting for animals (less so, but still true, even for humans) isn't a premeditated thing, it's a fight-or-flight response. Seeing the other cats probably triggered his instinctive fight-or-flight response, because he has no idea that he's safe inside of the house. Safety is really a human mental construct for the most part.
  
  So his reaction, as you could see by the fact that he wasn't cowering in a corner, was to fight back. You happened to be the first thing that touched him, and the response was instinctive.
  
  I don't know if that helps or not, but...

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  • (Anonymous)

    4/23/09 07:14 am (UTC)

    I am better now, and I do suspect the cat fight triggered his instinct (sp?).
    
    Thanks! :)

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