Maintaining The Peace When You Have Multiple Cats

Posted by Bob Newman

If you happen to possess several cats or live in a neighborhood where there are a lot of cats you’re already painfully aware that cats do fight. Cats exhibit their discontent with other cats by picking fights. When you fully grasp the reasons why cats fight it is possible to better discover how to stop your cats from fighting in the future. Itemized below are the main reasons why cats fight.

They are being territorial

Cats are very territorial much more so than dogs. Whenever they believe that their territory has been or is going to be invaded they are going to fight. They will even hiss and paw at cats who have been in the house even longer than they have. Both female and male cats are just as territorial so recognize that it has nothing to do with sex. One method to prevent territorial challenges would be to establish a place for each cat in your home.

They are fighting for Social Rank

This is often prevalent in male cats if you possess more than one male in the home. Even neutered males are given to fighting to establish rank. Male cats will battle to establish themselves as the head of the cat hierarchy. Two cats might position their bodies, then begin howling and screaming at one another.  If one of the cats walk away or back down, then the catfight is usually avoided. If neither cat is willing to back down they will continue to fight until one surrenders. There are usually no wounds suffered in this sort of combats in fact it is hardly probable that your interference is going to be required.

They are expressing internal aggression

Cats also fight due to some type of redirected aggression and this is fairly common, especially with indoor cats. They may fight for your attention, for each others attention or for something as simple as who obtains the treats first. Most of these fights are quite normal and short lived.

If you have to contend with the occasional fight know that this is really common for cats. When there is a legitimate risk to a cat you will most certainly be able to discern. In these cases you need to get involved well before there is any kind of bloodshed. When you do get involved do so diligently to protect yourself from getting scratched. You can capture their recognition by making a loud noise or spraying them with water and then administering corrective actions.

Bottom line is that it’s in cats nature to fight and you should take whatever measures you could in order to avoid fighting like ensuring that each cat has his own toys, space and utensils. Keep close track of the fighting and intervene at the appropriate time.

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