why do cats attact out of the blue?

Answer 1

Because they are having fun, and you are the easiest target. Also it is their instinct to stalk and hunt and ATTACK! Meow.

Answer 2

Cats usually don't just attack out of the blue. But they do have to play- which sometimes leads to using the claws. I had one do that once, and this feline had some large claws. I had to swat his backside to make him let go.

Keep in mind, too, that a cat is by nature a hunter- and some movements will remind them of prey, on an instinctive level.

Also, was your kitty scared or perhaps abused in the past? A scared kitty will fight if she feels threatenned.

Answer 3

While blue is a calming color to us humans, showing blue to a cat is like taunting a bull with red! Get rid of all the blue in your house and your cat will stop attacking you.

Answer 4

Cats do not usually attach without a reason. Even if the reason is not obvious to us. It might be a slight movement, or a light hitting. Or maybe they are just playing.

Answer 5

Because they want to keep you guessing.

Because they want you to find them attactive.

Answer 6

its their hunting needs. they like to stalk, so it might be out of the blue but they've probably been watching you for a while

Answer 7

Why friendly cats attack


One minute you are enjoying a tender moment petting your purring cat and then, all of a sudden, your lovey-dovey kitty whirls around and attacks you.

Cat lovers pull away wondering, "What just happened!?"

"Most of these problems can be linked people who acquiring kittens too young in the belief that they'll develop a closer bond with the cat," explains Carolyn Osier, a breeder of cats for more than 30 years and an all-breed judge for the Cat Fancier's Association.

Having watched almost 300 litters of kittens develop, Osier notes that, just like children, certain feline social skills develop at different times. A kitten acquired at six weeks of age may be fully capable of eating from a dish and using a litter box, but still needs to master social skills such as learning how to fight and play together. Kittens learn their more serious fighting and predatory skills by engaging in what look like serious tussles, but actually are play battles that don't involve the use of teeth or claws. If a kitten chomps or claws too hard, the game is over and he learns, in no uncertain terms, that he has to control himself with family.

Given the importance of these skills for the cat's survival, missing these lessons sets the stage for problems later.

Kittens who are denied access to other kittens and adult cats to assist them during in this important developmental period will try to learn these critical lessons as best they can by interacting with people. They will tackle ankles or arms, biting and kicking with their hind legs just as they would another kitten. But because humans don't know the appropriate "play gentle" signals, nor have they sharp little teeth and claws to fight back, these kittens don't learn that such aggressive behavior hurts. Osier says that 12-week-old kittens who experience the necessary "basic training" to develop these social skills will be no less bonded to people later.

Dr. Myrna Milani, a veterinary ethologist and author of "CatSmart," adds another dimension to this fur-nomenon. Milani says that cats may bite and claw people because these folks inadvertently stimulate the animals sexually when they rhythmically stroke them. A normal feline female partner holds still when a male grips her neck with his teeth and holds her with his front paws, then may lash out with their claws following sex. Unfortunately, people who don't know this often panic when they feel the firm, but not harmful grip of teeth and front paws in response to that stroking or lash out at the cat who takes a swipe at them. This bizarre human reaction naturally startles the cat -- "Geez, what are you, a tease? You're the one who started this heavy petting!" The confused cat naturally panics too, and may then trade in the gentler sexual teeth and claw displays for the more serious fighting or predatory ones to protect himself from this irrational human.

Some people mistakenly think neutering will eliminate this behavior. But neutering only removes reproductive organs, not brains. Granted, it dulls sexual urges but the hard-wiring remains. Dr. Larry Lachman coauthor of "Cats On The Counter" says the problem occurs in a wide variety of cats -- young cats, un-neutered and unspayed cats, cats given outdoor access, cats who reside in environments shared with nasty neighborhood cats, abused cats, cats not adequately socialized with people during their first six months of life.

If petting your cat sometimes makes it swat or bite, you may be dealing with a bossy "alpha" cat, says Dr. Nicholas Dodman, author of "The Cat Who Cried for Help." In such cases, ration petting and learn to read the warning signs, like flattened ears, furtive sideways glances and tail twitching. That's a good time to quit.

So the best way to avoid these miscommunications is to pay closer attention to your cat and learn to recognize the signals, which, while subtle to us would read loud and clear to another cat, that it is time to stop the, ahem, heavy petting.

Put another way, it can happen with almost any cat so your best bet is to be an educated owner.

Answer 8

They are creatures of instinct.

Answer 9

hormones.