Need advice AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR

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Toni&Nate - 03 Apr 2005 17:41 GMT

Yesterday our vet came to the house to treat our cat for an allergy and
he had to confine her to give her a injection. She has become very
aggressive to me,I wasn't even in the room. Not to my wife,when she sees
me she makes terrible sounds and runs to hide.Help what can we do.

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-L. - 03 Apr 2005 18:01 GMT

> Yesterday our vet came to the house to treat our cat for an allergy and
> he had to confine her to give her a injection. She has become very
> aggressive to me,I wasn't even in the room. Not to my wife,when she sees
> me she makes terrible sounds and runs to hide.Help what can we do.

That's not aggressive behavior. That's instinctual flight behavior.
Was the vet a male?

Just give it time. Don't approach the cat. Let the cat come to you.
Sit in a room and allow the cat to approach you. Hold treats in your
hand, talk soothingly. Don't look the cat in the eyes - that's
challenge behavior.

Just give kitty time and she should come around.

-L.

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John Doe - 03 Apr 2005 19:55 GMT

> Yesterday our vet came to the house to treat our cat for an
> allergy and he had to confine her to give her a injection. She
> has become very aggressive to me,I wasn't even in the room. Not
> to my wife,when she sees me she makes terrible sounds and runs
> to hide.Help what can we do.

I think cats are funny that way. Sometimes it doesn't need attention,
it needs freedom to do whatever it wants to do. That might apply well
to indoor-only cats (indoors is almost always a very good place for a
cat). When I often times see problems my cat would be able to cope
with if it were able to run away, I adjust its indoors environment.

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