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I've had my friend staying over for ten days now. He's scheduled to leave in four days so I'm guessing this'll resolve itself when that time comes but it still puzzles me.
My cat is usually on the meek side, very cuddly with me, though she is wary of people who, well, aren't me. When my friend fist arrived, she was cautious around him and would prefer to hide, so we just waited it out (best not to force that kind of thing). While she did seem to warm up to him, letting him pet her sometimes, and even coming to him on her own, a couple days ago (three?), there was a total 180 in her behaviour towards him. She hisses at him, sometimes growls, and she tried to attack him multiple times, twice when he did a motion (that I thought was maybe a little too fast, and I figured that maybe he just needs to make slow and or small movements), but then I also saw her trying to attack him when he was just sitting on the bed with his phone in his hands, doing virtually nothing. Any advice or insight? So far I only moved her to another room and closed the door when she was being aggressive but I'm not very happy about this, of course, as it's stressful for both the cat and the guest.
My cat is usually on the meek side, very cuddly with me, though she is wary of people who, well, aren't me. When my friend fist arrived, she was cautious around him and would prefer to hide, so we just waited it out (best not to force that kind of thing). While she did seem to warm up to him, letting him pet her sometimes, and even coming to him on her own, a couple days ago (three?), there was a total 180 in her behaviour towards him. She hisses at him, sometimes growls, and she tried to attack him multiple times, twice when he did a motion (that I thought was maybe a little too fast, and I figured that maybe he just needs to make slow and or small movements), but then I also saw her trying to attack him when he was just sitting on the bed with his phone in his hands, doing virtually nothing. Any advice or insight? So far I only moved her to another room and closed the door when she was being aggressive but I'm not very happy about this, of course, as it's stressful for both the cat and the guest.