What’s it like living in a multi-cat household? Sometimes it’s interspecies war. Sometimes it models the UN.

I never thought that another cat could cool Pooka’s hostile jets, but it’s actually happened. His name is Preacher, and he’s been a force to be reckoned with for the past 18 months of the 26 months of his life. Preacher started showing dominant tendencies before he was a year old, jumping on the backs [...]
Posted: July 15th, 2010 under Feline Behavior, Hierarchical Order, felines aggression, multi cat household.
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There are several pairs of cats in the HOP that don’t like one another: Zoe and Pooka, Brava and Pooka, Bruce and Pixie, and Bruce and Mars. So, quite frequently, hissing and growling can be heard at any given time when one of these pairs of cats comes in close proximity of each other. Usually [...]
Posted: June 26th, 2010 under Feline Behavior, Multi Cat, felines aggression, multi cat household.
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Pooka has serious issues with females. Over the past several years he’s aggressively targeted Zoe, Smudge, and Tiny Pea, resulting in Smudge having to stay in the front bedroom. Zoe also stayed in the front bedroom for a couple of years, but she’s been reintroduced into the main clowder. Unfortunately, Pooka and Zoe still get [...]
Posted: January 15th, 2010 under Feline Behavior, felines aggression.
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It seems as if Pooka got his displeasure at sharing his house with these particular guests off his chest. Or else he just didn’t want to spend another minute in solitary confinement. Since Friday, Pooka’s been a good cat and stopped threatening our company. Hopefully his incidents of outrage will stop and he’s done voicing [...]
Posted: April 27th, 2009 under Feline Behavior, felines aggression.
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Yes, thank Goodness for that feline trait because they’ve gone through a lot of changes in the past few days. However, not all cats go willingly into change. A few, like Pooka, go kicking and caterwauling into it. As I mentioned yesterday, Pooka didn’t cordially invite our guests into the HOP. No, unfortunately, Pooka’s tantrums [...]
Posted: April 25th, 2009 under Feline Behavior, felines aggression, multi cat household.
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