Cat Aggression

Cat aggression isn’t very simple. It’s easier to understand with tom cats who fight for territory and mates. But it still exists in cats who are fixed. It can be caused by personality clashes or even not being able to get at the one the aggression is directed towards. It could be the cat is inside and there is another human or animal they can’t get to and so they take it out on someone else.

This is not the same as when cats play wrestle. With aggression there is hissing which can lead to growling and fighting. Sometimes this sort of fighting isn’t tolerated well by humans. I remember my girl yelled at both Spot and me for fighting and she told us we had to work it out and get along. She then put us in the shower together. We were stunned, but then we got used to each other and stopped fighting.

We realized she was right and we didn’t realize before she blew up how our fighting was upsetting her. There is no reason to fight like that when she loves us both equally and unconditionally. So, we learned to get along and just wrestled to get the tension out. No longer getting into full aggressive fights. Things were better for all of us after that.