Do cats hiss when they are playing?
Yeah when she hisses she wants you to stop. You might be playing "too much" with her. Cats like their space. That's why I have two. If one gets bored of my affection, I just go play with the other one haha. The truth is, cats lose interest in us faster than we lose interest in them. Don't continue to bother her when she hisses. Let her come to you. You'll know when she wants to be pet.
My cat wont stop hissing when kids come up to her?
Spraying her with water will scare her. She is already scared. So I'm having a hard time imagining that will help her to behave the way you want her to. The whole point of using a spray bottle effectively as a means of training a cat isn't as a matter of punishment, but as a matter of conditioning. If you don't know how to run an operant conditioning program, you won't be successful at using the spray bottle, even in situations that it might be effective. You cat is hissing at the kids because she is scared, and wants to establish her boundaries. I would suggest making sure she has plenty of safe places to go, perhaps even shut her in a room in a quiet part of the house with a litter box and water while your cousins are around. Definitely teach the kids not to look at her (it's an aggressive gesture in cat body language, and also why cats often gravitate to people who don't like them, as those are the people who aren't looking directly at them), and to give her some space. Teach the kids not to approach her, but to ignore her. Yeah, that's a tough one, because kids naturally want to give attention to animals. But it's good for them to learn to respect animals, and accept animals for who and what they are. As for when she's purring on you, when she bites you, she may be overstimulated. Some cats just suddenly feel overwhelmed. The thing to do is carefully watch to see if she does anything immediately before biting, such as rippling the fur along her back, or changes in how she holds her ears, that might give you a clue as to when enough is too much for her. If you can't see a pattern, just start cutting those affection sessions short. Leave her wanting more. It may help her relax a bit, develop more trust with you, and perhaps she will decide eventually that she wants more attention.
Why is my cat nice to me but hisses at everyone else?
Hi Eric Cadow, thanks for the A2A that made me giggle when I read it.Oye, cats. Well, cats are a different critter altogether when it comes to personalities of our domesticated critters such as a canine. There are so many potential reasons that your cat is hissing at others beside you.Normally a cat only hisses when they feel threatened. Faced with trouble, a cat's first reaction is to keep at a distance, observe and then run away or hide. They cannot resist this urge, and trying to stop cats from hiding could cause them immense stress. So don’t.Cats have differing personalities, from outgoing and sociable to cautious and self-contained. Personality is established by a combination of genetic influences and early experience, neither of which can be altered in an adult cat. Without knowing much else about your hissing kitty, my guess is your kitty was either formally feral OR was taken from her mother too soon and not socialized properly within the litter.You can start to introduce your kitty to new people within your home slowly and with people you know who are on the quieter side of the personality spectrum. Just have them come over and ignore the cat and don’t let them attempt to interact with the cat whatsoever. Just let the cat get used to this new stranger in the house. Gradually you can mix it up and have different people come over. But always with the same instructions: 1. Ignore my cat when you come in. 2. No eye contact with my cat please. 3. Don’t attempt to pet my cat, please. 4. Allow the cat to come to you but don’t react.That might help, but, it might not. I have a GIANT Maine Coon right now that is the biggest baby! As soon as anyone comes near our doors he hauls BUTT and that’s it. I don’t see him again until everyone has left the building. Hrm, maybe I should have named him Elvis. (lol)
Mother cat suddenly hissing at her 3 week old kittens?
I had moved them (the mother and her kittens) to another part our backyard because the previous area they were staying in will undergo renovation in a few days. I moved them at 1 pm. Mother cat walked around the new area for a bit then fed her kittens and took a nap. All seemed to be fine. It was later in the evening at about 7 pm that she decided to start moving them back to the previous area. She carried the kitten all the way across the roof because the previous area and new area are separated by a high fence. It freaked me out. So I decided to put her and her kittens in a cage for a bit so that she wouldn't keep trying to move them. I initially thought that being in a cage would freak the mother out but she just lay down and fed her kittens and took a quick nap as always. I let her out an hour later when the kittens were asleep. I kept the kittens inside the cage so that they wouldn't get stepped on because they really seem to like feet. I woke up at about 2:30 am to put the mother back in the cage so that she could feed the kittens again. She was fine for about 5 minutes but then she started hissing and screaming at her kittens! The kittens would attempt to drink from her but she would move away then hiss and scream. I stood there for about 10 minutes trying to understand what the heck was going on and hoping she would stop with the attitude but she didn't.. I decided to let her out of the cage because I was afraid she would hurt them. I don't know why this is happening.. Help!
My mother cat keeps attacking her kittens. Help?
She's doing what Nature is telling her to do. Cats don't have that same concept of "family" that humans do. She's driving them away, because it's time for her to breed again (unless you got her spayed) and those babies are getting to be breeding age. In the wild, cats often drive off their young so they can attend to their new litter, and so that they don't inbreed. It's time to get Mom spayed (if you haven't already) and to get the babies spayed as well. The females are old enough to come into heat, and get pregnant, and Mom knows this.
My female cat keeps hissing at her brother?
Yes i have the same problem with my 5 Cats,I have A mother Cat and her 4 babies i kept the family together I just couldn't break them up.The kittens are three years old now .One of them has Asthma and she goes to the Vet a lot and when that happens she gets hiss at a lot because she smells different..Other times the Mother hisses at them like i guess if you annoy your Mother she will tell you off.But with Cats that's how they talk to one another she can just be saying leave me alone i don't want to play now give me my space its just brothers and sister fighting with each other if she's not showing any pain or discomfort or if she hides and doesn't want to eat or drink then you have a problem.but i wouldn't worry about it she just wants to be left alone she'll come around when she ready.Give her sometime we all have are moods Cats are no different..I would call it Cat PMS,If though she's sprayed they still go though it,Just like a woman having her tubes tie i still go thought the mood stage...
It is strange for a cat to never hiss or scratch?
My cat is 8 years old and is a loving and affectionate kitty. Apart from being terrified of strangers, he has a brilliant temperament. Never before has he hissed, growled, bitten or scratched anyone. He's very patient and just walks away if he gets annoyed. My friend told me that all cats hiss when they're annoyed or scared, even if they're very well taken care of. Why doesn't mine? Is this rare in a cat? I figure he has plenty of opportunities to be annoyed-- often I have friends over who want to pet and hold him and this absolutely terrifies him, but he never shows any aggression. He just cowards in the corner of the room and meows to be let out. Why does he choose to not be aggressive? As a kitten he left his mother at a very young age if that helps.