Why would a cat hiss?

Question

The cat was walking around smelling the carpet the other day, stopped and hissed, then kept walking and sniffing. Why would it do that?

Answer 1

The cat probably encountered an unusual scent, maybe of another animal, and felt slightly threatened by it.

Answer 2

A cat hisses for the same reason any animal hisses - it's afraid and trying to give a warning at the same time.

The cat may have smelled old urine from another animal on the carpet or even a mouse track. Unless the cat attempts to urinate in that spot or tries to digs there you can let it go.

Answer 3

If you have ever had a previos pet before this cat then your kitty is just smelling the other animal and it doesn't like the fact that there was another animal here before it. Or if you've just moved into this house then the previos owner might havve had a cat or a dog and the cat is smelling that.

Answer 4

It may have smelled another animal or scent that was on someones shoe when they walked on the carpet. He was trying to threaten whatever it was he smelled to stay away from him.

Answer 5

Tibbins gets very indignant on the vet, she would not hiss yet she gets this rumbly growly yowly element occurring there :P She's additionally a biter - and my! Does she bite problematical! Ouch! Archie is only a great floppy teddy - he's astounding. he's acquaintances with all and sundry and would not ideas being prodded or poked. have you ever seen a style of movies, or cartoons, the place the little Victorian female has a cat that she clothing up in bonnets and places in tiny cradles with lacy bedding? that must be Archie! Molly is abit timid. She would not growl or hiss, yet she tries to wiggle away and her eyes circulate extensive. i've got self belief so sorry for her, she's extremely scared. Willow.. ah now, my princess Willow.. the little bugger. She loves the vets. She loves the attention. She is going there, and acts all pathetic on the table mendacity down, and searching up together with her huge eyes. while she's prodded, she makes those stupid little squeaking noises as though to assert 'Oh healthcare expert, woe is me, in spite of is erroneous??' as quickly as we've been given her executed, she substitute into this form of naughty female afterwards. Even the extremely *vet* pronounced as Willow a.. DRAMA QUEEN! Yep. Willow is accepted on the vets now, for being a drama queen and milking it thoroughly. She rolls, seems sorry for herself, cries, woos and melts the nurses together with her huge eyes and purrs while she is petted.. Little does Willow be attentive to that I observed her working up those stairs to bounce on the warmth mattress, the time while Willow substitute into curiously 'Oh so dreadfully ill' (weeks after her spaying.. WEEKS!) while she substitute into interior the room with me.. no longer able to circulate.. wanting maximum of hugs and TLC.. finely shrink hen dropped at her on her specific little plate.. (Oh of direction, we adore her plenty we humour her ;D)

Answer 6

usually when a cat gets it up the but it makes weird noises (hisses)

Answer 7

It's a sound they make to scare or bluff another cat to ward off getting into a fight.

Answer 8

was there another animal in the house recently? or she just smelled something she didn't like. their sense of smell is so much more intense than ours.

Answer 9

the cat probably smelled another animal had been there, and it was frightened

Answer 10

cuz he didn't like what he was smelling. my mom's cat did that to my sock....then just went on