Cat got scared and keeps attacking wife and other cat

Siamese can get very emotional. I had a Siamese named Bandi who would go
berserk any time I came into the house with another cat's scent on me. She
attacked me regularly about once a year. One time I set her off because I
came home from Motor Vehicles (NY) in a rage and was in my closet looking
for some paper they wanted. She attacked. Her bites actually made black
and blue marks. Her screams would be terrible. I loved this cat with my
whole heart. She saw me through two marriages and the birth of my son.

The good news is that not only was she wonderful most of the time her rages
stopped after a few years. Maybe by 5 or 6 years she calmed down.

Kill her for this? NEVER.

--
Barb
I can only please one person a day.
Today is not your day.
Tomorrow doesn't look good either.

"L.S." wrote in message
om...
We have to cats (tiki and bailey) and although they are indoor cats
we
usually let them out in our fenced in backyard everyday. [snip]

You want to kill your pet because your wife screwed up?

Idiot.

"L.S." wrote in message
om...
We have to cats (tiki and bailey) and although they are indoor cats
we
usually let them out in our fenced in backyard everyday. [snip]

You want to kill your pet because your wife screwed up?

Idiot.

"Laura R." wrote in
message

Put some vanilla on the back of
her neck, the other cat's neck and your wife's wrists when you
expose
them to each other.


Intriguing. I have never heard of this. Why?

"Laura R." wrote in
message

Put some vanilla on the back of
her neck, the other cat's neck and your wife's wrists when you
expose
them to each other.


Intriguing. I have never heard of this. Why?

"Laura R." wrote in
message .. .
circa Mon, 26 Jan 2004 19:22:23 GMT, in rec.pets.cats.health+behav,
Mary ) said,

Put some vanilla on the back of
her neck, the other cat's neck and your wife's wrists when you
expose
them to each other.


Intriguing. I have never heard of this. Why?

To mask their smells from each other. Instead of smelling the wife's
and other cat's smells, the scared cat will just smell vanilla.
Since
she'll already smell like vanilla herself, the others will be less
threatening to her.

People often forget that memory isn't just visual for cats- it's
highly aural and olfactory. Cats identify their owners more by the
way they sound and the way they smell than by what they look like.

The sense of smell in people has been proven to hold the longest
sensory associations (think about how the smell of pumpkin pie
brings
back instant associations with Thanksgiving for many people, for
example), so it stands to reason that this may also be the case in
animals with much more highly developed senses of smell than we
have.
Aside from being a good masking agent, the scent of vanilla
shouldn't
have any negative associations for the cat unless she was attacked
by
a giant sugar cookie. G

This can also be useful when you bring a cat home from the vet and
the cat has been boarded and doesn't smell "right" to the other cats
and thus gets walloped. How's that for a run-on sentence? ;-)

BTW, don't douse anybody in the vanilla- just use a drop. (And I
didn't pick vanilla out of a hat, if anybody was wondering- before
Feliway came out, you used to see people posting all over Usenet
about using vanilla as a mask to (re)introduce cats to each other.

Laura
--


Neat, Laura. It makes good sense, too.

"Laura R." wrote in
message .. .
circa Mon, 26 Jan 2004 19:22:23 GMT, in rec.pets.cats.health+behav,
Mary ) said,

Put some vanilla on the back of
her neck, the other cat's neck and your wife's wrists when you
expose
them to each other.


Intriguing. I have never heard of this. Why?

To mask their smells from each other. Instead of smelling the wife's
and other cat's smells, the scared cat will just smell vanilla.
Since
she'll already smell like vanilla herself, the others will be less
threatening to her.

People often forget that memory isn't just visual for cats- it's
highly aural and olfactory. Cats identify their owners more by the
way they sound and the way they smell than by what they look like.

The sense of smell in people has been proven to hold the longest
sensory associations (think about how the smell of pumpkin pie
brings
back instant associations with Thanksgiving for many people, for
example), so it stands to reason that this may also be the case in
animals with much more highly developed senses of smell than we
have.
Aside from being a good masking agent, the scent of vanilla
shouldn't
have any negative associations for the cat unless she was attacked
by
a giant sugar cookie. G

This can also be useful when you bring a cat home from the vet and
the cat has been boarded and doesn't smell "right" to the other cats
and thus gets walloped. How's that for a run-on sentence? ;-)

BTW, don't douse anybody in the vanilla- just use a drop. (And I
didn't pick vanilla out of a hat, if anybody was wondering- before
Feliway came out, you used to see people posting all over Usenet
about using vanilla as a mask to (re)introduce cats to each other.

Laura
--


Neat, Laura. It makes good sense, too.

From: Laura R.

(And I
didn't pick vanilla out of a hat, if anybody was wondering- before
Feliway came out, you used to see people posting all over Usenet
about using vanilla as a mask to (re)introduce cats to each other.


Yep. I've used it before and it does work (except it did make me crave
something sweet).

Lauren
________
See my cats: http://community.webshots.com/album/56955940rWhxAe
Raw Diet Info: http://www.holisticat.com/drjletter.html
http://www.geocities.com/rawfeeders/ForCatsOnly.html
Declawing Info: http://www.wholecat.com/articles/claws.htm

From: Laura R.

(And I
didn't pick vanilla out of a hat, if anybody was wondering- before
Feliway came out, you used to see people posting all over Usenet
about using vanilla as a mask to (re)introduce cats to each other.


Yep. I've used it before and it does work (except it did make me crave
something sweet).

Lauren
________
See my cats: http://community.webshots.com/album/56955940rWhxAe
Raw Diet Info: http://www.holisticat.com/drjletter.html
http://www.geocities.com/rawfeeders/ForCatsOnly.html
Declawing Info: http://www.wholecat.com/articles/claws.htm

"Laura R." wrote in message
.. .
circa Mon, 26 Jan 2004 19:22:23 GMT, in rec.pets.cats.health+behav,
Mary ) said,

Put some vanilla on the back of
her neck, the other cat's neck and your wife's wrists when you
expose
them to each other.


Intriguing. I have never heard of this. Why?

To mask their smells from each other. Instead of smelling the wife's
and other cat's smells, the scared cat will just smell vanilla. Since
she'll already smell like vanilla herself, the others will be less
threatening to her.

People often forget that memory isn't just visual for cats- it's
highly aural and olfactory. Cats identify their owners more by the
way they sound and the way they smell than by what they look like.

The sense of smell in people has been proven to hold the longest
sensory associations (think about how the smell of pumpkin pie brings
back instant associations with Thanksgiving for many people, for
example), so it stands to reason that this may also be the case in
animals with much more highly developed senses of smell than we have.
Aside from being a good masking agent, the scent of vanilla shouldn't
have any negative associations for the cat unless she was attacked by
a giant sugar cookie. G


Ah, the old attack cookie ;o)