Our family pet is a 3 yr old siamese cat, she is spayed and has always been really sucky and loving. Recently she has been very agressive. We are smokers, and she started attacing us when we were smoking. So we stopped smoking around her. Now she has started just randomly attacking my father, mother and myself. When she attacks, she flattens her ears back, all of her hair puffs up, her eyes dialate to pure black and hisses at us before she leaps at us. Is there any reason all of a sudden she would start this? I was reading about stress on cats, but nothing has been happening recently in our home that would cause that. Is there anything we can do? We're considering putting her down if we cant figure this out, and it breaks my heart to think that we might have to do that. HELP!!
2007-10-05 09:59:18 · 4 answers · asked by sexybutallsass 1 in Pets ➔ Cats
I love that your cat wants you to quit smoking.
have you taken her to your vet and had her checked out? She might be trying to tell you that she's not feeling well. The vet should also have some suggestions on altering her behavior.
2007-10-05 10:05:15 · answer #1 · answered by pixy_stix 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I had a cat that would be curled up with the other cat sleeping and she would wake up and just attack the other cat...poor thing didn't even know what hit him! After a few years of doing that off and on...she started biting us in a similar way. You would be petting her and she was fine, and then ...WAM! She'd bite you! She ended up biting my thumb one night when I was asleep! I had to be on major antibiotics for 10 days because she pierced my tendon she bit so deep. A couple days later, she bit my daughter while she was sleeping! That was it! I put her outside and wished you well. I fed her, of course, but we lived out in the country and she eventually just left. Didn't know what else to do...
I know that's not a happy, encouraging story, but I think sometimes cats are just mentally ill. People can be, so I figure so can cats! Maybe putting her down is the only answer if you can't let her outside....sorry!
2007-10-05 11:09:06 · answer #2 · answered by ladybug 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Considering the amount of aggression and body language, is it possible for your vet to check the cat over for a brain tumor? This isn't normal behavior, especially as the trigger for the attacks has been shifted.
Just of the off chance---are you using any of those high frequency bug/rodent repellers?
2007-10-05 12:53:41 · answer #3 · answered by Elaine M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Something is wrong if her behavior has changed. It's time for a full check up. Putting her down for misbehaving should not even be an option. This is not the correct way to handle this problem.
Try to comfort her when she gets aggressive.. Now and after her checkup
2007-10-05 10:46:15 · answer #4 · answered by Laurie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋