This time to understand "why cats have aggressive behaviors"
content summarizes
normal aggressive behaviors
· game/hunting-related aggressive behaviors
· stroking-induced aggressive behaviors
· painful intolerance caused by Abnormal aggressive behaviors
· Fear-related aggressive behaviors
· Transfer sexual aggressive behaviors
· How to prevent?
Explanation of aggressive behavior
We often use fierce cat to describe cats that exhibit aggressive behavior. Attack performance is actually a cat's daily life, from breathing to spitting, to chasing the opponent can be called an attack. The aggressive behavior of cats is actually a way of communication to avoid conflict and ease tension.
Aggressive behavior can be reasonably expressed in daily life, such as social, gaming, hunting and other situations , so we should not call cats that perform aggressive behaviors as aggressive cats. There are many categories of aggressive behavior, but we should learn to distinguish between normal and abnormal aggressive behavior.
Normal aggressive behavior
In life, there are some normal aggressive behaviors that often trouble the cat owner but belong to the cat's normal aggressive behavior. There are the following situations: game/hunting-related aggressive behavior, stroking-induced aggressive behavior, pain intolerance The attack caused by .
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Game/hunting-related aggressive behavior
Among the normal aggressive behaviors, let’s first introduce: game/hunting-related aggressive behavior .
cats are easily inspired and induced to show their hunting nature. Kittens learn how to improve their skills through games to become excellent hunters. Game modes usually include behavior sequences such as exploration, exploration, stalking, chasing, attacking, swooping, hitting, rolling, biting, etc.
When the kitten's game object is also a kitten, it is easier for them to learn self-control, because pain often causes the game to stop. When there is a lack of similar interactions in the breeding environment of kittens, cat owners often allow kittens to scratch their own hands and feet, causing the cat to have no learning objects to control.
When the cat approaches 9-12 months of age, this behavior often causes the cat owner to be injured. If the cat owner punishes the cat for being hurt or angry, it will often cause the cat to become anxious and cause other problems. Early prevention can effectively prevent interaction problems after adult cats.
In order to prevent the cat from treating the cat owner’s hands and feet as prey, and at the same time to meet the cat’s hunting needs, the cat owner should provide suitable toys, such as cat cat sticks or common cat straw bags, feather toys, etc. Kittens have a high demand for activity and mental stimulation. Physical consumption alone may not be able to fully meet the needs. Hunting is usually a strategic activity.
In addition, providing brain activities is also a good way. For example, the leaky ball is a toy that can be played or dropped out of food, which can satisfy the situation of enjoying prey after hunting. In addition, using snacks to train cats can also stimulate the mind and increase the stability of the interaction between cats and people.
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Stroke-induced aggressive behavior
Next, we look at the second type of aggressive behavior: Stroke-induced aggressive behavior .
When a cat seeks concern, it often draws people’s attention, meowing, or jumping on the leg. These behaviors often make people mistakenly believe that the cat is inviting humans to take care of it. Such as touching and paying attention. Some cats can enjoy petting and attention for a long time, but some cats have a lower tolerance threshold for these behaviors. Cats will also make concern-seeking behaviors towards each other, but we will not see another cat’s response by giving attention feedback for a long time. To put it simply, cats’ favorite interaction mode is simple content, short time, and high frequency. Therefore, short-term contact and interaction are more acceptable to most cats. Just like when greeting people, shaking hands, smiling or hugging are the ways most people are accustomed to, but if you always show affection to others, such as kissing, tickling or patting on others’ belly, it will become a more aggressive behavior and cause Dislike of others.
In order to avoid bad interaction between the cat and the cat owner, the cat owner can observe the number of strokes the cat can accept.
If you touch three times, the cat still enjoys it and even asks to touch it again, but if you feel angry after touching it five times, the cat owner should stop after touching it three times. When the cat asks to be touched again, the cat will only touch it again. Next, create a situation where the cat asks to be petted and the cat owner controls a few strokes. In the follow-up, you can continue to match the cat’s favorite snacks, petting the cat while giving the snacks, and gradually increase the petting time, so that the cat will make a good connection with the petting.
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Aggressive behaviors caused by pain intolerance
Finally, let’s look at the third attack behavior of normal aggressive behavior: aggressive behaviors caused by pain intolerance.
cats are very good at enduring pain, so cat owners often overlook that cats are suffering from diseases, and when they are actually found, they are very sick. Therefore, in addition to observing the mental appetite and excretion, the cat's response to touch can be used as one of the items of physiological state assessment.
No matter how well-behaved, no matter how docile cats, if they can’t bear the pain, most of them will show the possibility of aggression and murder, metabolic diseases such as liver disease, pancreatitis, kidney disease, endocrine disorders, central nervous system disorders, or Sensory degradation can make the cat feel irritable and uncomfortable. When the cat owner tries to pick up, touch, or even touch, it may produce unfriendly behavior.
cats usually don’t understand their physical pain, but they can negatively link pain with the cat’s owner’s touch. Therefore, the actions of the cat owner become a source of pain in the cat’s eyes, which sometimes causes the cat to avoid contact with the cat owner, or make an adverse reaction when touched by the cat owner, such as breathing, roaring, escaping, or attacking. It is also often used to hide from people to avoid contact with others, causing abnormal diet and abnormal excretion.
is necessary to diagnose and treat cats’ physiological diseases. It is necessary to eliminate pain, such as postoperative wound pain. Cat owners should also be taught how to interact with cats during this period. For example, with snacks, you can divert attention on the one hand, and perform simple desensitization exercises on the other hand, so that the cat will not repel the cat owner's touch. Punishing a cat for an attack is very undesirable.
abnormal aggressive behavior
is not a normal aggressive behavior, but the situations that often plague cat owners include: fear-related aggressive behavior, diversionary aggressive behavior, and social status-related aggressive behavior.
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fear-related aggressive behavior
abnormal aggressive behavior, we first understand: fear-related aggressive behavior .
Fear-related aggressive behavior is also called defensive aggressive behavior, which refers to the aggressive response when the cat is forced to face someone or something, and the cat feels threatened and tries to protect itself. Triggering factors can be people, objects, sounds, and images in the environment. There is also a case when cats are afraid of sounds.
When there happens to be a person or an object approaching it at the scene, the cat may connect such an object with the sound, leading to similar situations in the future. Even if there is no sound, it will react in fear or attack. . Cats that lack socialization in their childhood often have such a reaction to people, which can easily cause these cats to have adverse reactions to people’s approach and touch, and make defensive attacks on .
If the cat owner’s treatment is forced or punished, the cat’s subsequent reactions will be more severe. Cats who learn to use aggressive response to escape and deter successful cats will be more inclined to make such a performance to help themselves get out. Prevention is the best solution. During the golden socialization period of kittens, it is about the third to seventh weeks of age after birth, which is a good time for learning and observation.
Cats in this period can be designed by cat owners to expose cats to low-level stimuli. Taking common medical behaviors in pet hospitals for example, cats can explore the family environment with the cooperation of small snacks and toys. A friendly interaction will help to have a good impression of the smell, sound, and people of the environment. If you move in the future, you can avoid many unfamiliar adverse reactions.
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Transferred aggressive behavior
Next is the second type of aggressive behavior: Transferred aggressive behavior . (Revulsion!!!) There are some things in common between
's diversionary aggressive behavior and human response to anger. When Cat A is provoked by Cat B and Cat A gets angry, Cat B has already run away, or Cat B is out of reach of Cat A. For example, cat B is a free-range cat passing by outdoors, cat A is in anger, but cat C is just beside or passing by, then cat C may be the target of inducing cat A to attack.
If Cat B offends Cat A very frequently, and Cat A always vents cat C, then even if Cat A does not see Cat B, as long as Cat C is in sight, Cat A may attack Cat C. Cat. It is a pity that the conflict between AB cats does not usually happen in front of the cat owner, but the cat owner sees cat A hitting cat C. Therefore, it is very important to find out the real "C cat" or any cause of the trigger, and to block the trigger.
In the above example, the window where Cat B can be seen should be blocked, and Cat B should be driven away as much as possible. The emotional rupture between Cat A and Cat C is difficult to repair at the moment, but the cat owner must understand that when there is a conflict between cats at home, the two cats must be separated for hours or even days.
If the object of the conflict is a person or the cat owner himself, it is necessary to calmly leave the scene so that the cat has time to calm down slowly. This is very important. If you try to drive the cat away or pick it up, Will trigger the cat's mood to rise even more. How to prevent
If the relationship between two cats is tight, you need to keep the cats in isolation temporarily, and whether you can accept each other again later, you need more information to evaluate, cat pheromones, emotional health products for cats, or It is the use of mood drugs that can be considered. After a long period of isolation, the exchange of smells can be used to re-recognize each other, and it is also helpful to evaluate cats’ impressions of each other. Using pet enclosures or cat cages allows cats to re-recognize each other in a safe and secure state. But the result that often occurs is that one of the cats still has to find a home again. The differential diagnosis of
behavioral problems is very important. When we grasp the motives of cats' aggressive behavior, we can propose practical solutions to help them and improve the quality of life of cats and their owners.
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