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Are cats protective?

5/31/2014

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Cats have the reputation of being aloof, independent creatures who only care about their grooming, getting their rest in the warmest (or coolest) spot and eating twice a day. Cat owners know this is all true but are familiar with other side of their cats' personality. Even humans who did not have a high standard of cats as pets will agree after sharing their lifes with a cat for a while.

Cats channel energy around them. Our loving and sleepy long haired cat, Cory, is always quiet and sweet. One night we were having an argument in the apartment. At a certain point it became quite a little aggresive. Cory run like crazy against my friend and bit his ankle. We were both shocked! Afterwards we realized there was too much negative energy, the high volume and gestures had shocked our Cory who did not understand what was going on.

Siamese cats are known for being very attached and protective of their humans. We all have a friend who has to lock her cat in the bedroom when she has guests. Cats think of the apartment as their territory. This includes humans, furniture and everything contained within the apartment. When strangers come to use their furniture and "their human" doesn't pay attention to them as usual, some cats don't take it well.

My cats always run to the door when the door bell rings. They want to know who's coming. They will inspect the new presence. Any visitor has to pass the test.

Many cat owners have anecdotes regarding their cat's protective behavior:

My cat was a mutt. I bought her at the market in Korea. She fetched like a dog, could open doors, walked on a leash and was very protective. She had to be locked up when strangers or my sister visited because she'd attack them. I don't know why other than being very smart and very attached to me. One day she jumped out of an open window to attack my sister as she bent over.

My friend has a domestic short hair that seems to think she's a dog. She's gets up in the window and growls if someone so much as walks by their house and she stands by the door and glares at visitors that she's not familiar with.

My ex stopped by last night for reasons that are not important but while he was standing in the livingroom Beastie Bear started creeping up on him. Greg warned him the cat was behind him. He did not want him to back up and accidently step on him. The ex turned and said "oh I see him" and stated "I like cats". A couple minutes passed and then out of no where Beastie wrapped his front paws around his leg, bit into his jeans and ran away. My ex was of course shocked but unharmed. Beastie is front declawed and he only got a hold of jean material. My ex even laughed about how strange the cat is.

Our youngish Maine Coon girl Squeak, who was an absolute ditz normally (if a riot to us) with seemingly no self-protective instincts, one day walked over a hot coil on our stove and burned her pads somewhat (not terribly serious, but required ointment for 10 days). Well, about a year later we had a new kitten (couple of months old) and he was about to jump up too (though the stove was off at the time), when Squeak ran over, butted him and shrieked. He ran away and never tried it again, and we just stood there marvelling!


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