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Linus is doing much better :) He's almost not clawing at all, seems much calmer and more at ease/at home. He still has some way to go, but he's getting better :) But he has been licking his behind a lot these past few days, well, just yesterday and today that I've noticed. He's been licking off...

The feliway spray I'm using expired in january... is it much weaker? Do I need to get a new one? They are kind of expensive...

Redirected Aggression: A Case Study | Little Big Cat Probably because they are at a distance and have a window between them. I'm not saying that every scenario equals something of this magnitude, but cats are usually fierce and hostile at first introductions. Anyway, I'm learning that cats are...

Sure you're not just anthropomorphising now? :P Cats are usually enemies at first, until they establish territory and their place amongst each other. Linus just looks for now, I don't think the other cats have spotted him, but i seriously doubt that the first notion when he is let out is that...

How to Deal With Redirected Aggression in Cats This behavior occurs when animals, unable to respond directly to threats, vent their frustrations on whoever happens to be nearby. A common triggering event for cats is other animals. Neighborhood cats sometimes hang out around homes — in full...

I think've figured this out... I think this has little do to with over-stimulation, and more to do with redirected aggression. It's not just when I pet or try to pick her up when she's lying down... it's, in varying degree, always irritated and stressed, more or less. The tail is going a lot...

And would it really help, as the window in my bedroom has a clear view to my backyard, where a lot of different cats go by? He's bound to smell a lot from them... and I have to let the air in sometimes, especially now when the summer comes and it's getting hot.

So what do I do? What besides Lysol can I use? Can't I just use feliway?

What do you mean?

Thank you, I'll try that :) Yes... I'm afraid I have my issues with aggressiveness and may be having a hard time seeing this in perspective. It makes sense... maybe that's why he is so reluctant to give his couch-spot away. I kinda began seeing him as an alpha-cat, bullying his way into my home...

I'm the one to apologize... I'm sorry, I'm having a bad day and took your comment all wrong. Thank you, and if I can be of any help that's good :) I guess I forget that Linus is a new cat... I'm only used to Mille, and if she was like this, she would've probably lived here for three years or...

Maybe you're right... I do play with him two or three times a day. But I do not engage in a whole lot otherwise... he's pent up enough from before, and it seems he is calmer from just me being there, without anything else. He doesn't seem curious... he seems more... skeptical. He doesn't...

I don't know... I think he's been enough around for some time. He is showing some improvement since friday, saturday, I'll give him that. Not regards to the aggression, but to the level of pent-up energy. He was kinda extreme when he got here. He's calmer now, even though somethings clearly...

That might be it, or the owner from she was a kitten might have played with him with her bare hands, he might've been abused. I don't know. There's also a theory that alpha-cats (yes, and some don't believe that there exists alpha-cats :P) are more aggressive in general, to both overpetting, as...

I've been beginning to raise my voice as of these past few days, not from the beginning, and that's just to curb his dominating behaviour. I'm not shouting, but I'm firm and determined. The fosterparents just said that he wasn't any trouble at all in regards to this, and that he was only like...