Hi, I am concerned about my cat's very aggressive behaviour when he leaves the flat. Bit of background, he is a 3 year old rescue cat, involved in bad car accident, had a broken pelvis so probably has considerable trauma in his past.
When he wants to go out, it is impossible to walk near to him or past him without him hissing and scratching and making a strange miqowing noise that alos involves coming towards me with his front paws sort of waving around. Usually I can avoid him but not always and it is unnerving to say the least. I have tried hissing back but that riles him even more - oh dear. I looked at other aggression threads. It could be redirected aggression as there are a lot of other cats around although he is not aggressive to them when he is outside. He does turn into a different cat. I haven't been telling him off as I assuemd it was some instinctive reaction but are there things I can do? The same kind of things mentioned on general aggression threads? Any ideas, Thanks, Tara
When he wants to go out, it is impossible to walk near to him or past him without him hissing and scratching and making a strange miqowing noise that alos involves coming towards me with his front paws sort of waving around. Usually I can avoid him but not always and it is unnerving to say the least. I have tried hissing back but that riles him even more - oh dear. I looked at other aggression threads. It could be redirected aggression as there are a lot of other cats around although he is not aggressive to them when he is outside. He does turn into a different cat. I haven't been telling him off as I assuemd it was some instinctive reaction but are there things I can do? The same kind of things mentioned on general aggression threads? Any ideas, Thanks, Tara