Do Cats Feel Threatened

[queenofmean]

My cat Henry is normally a people puss. He is fine when relatives come to visit or when my friends come round. He can't get enough attention. He is very much a 'mummy's boy' and when I am not at home he pines/acts up until I return. Now... last week my friend (female) came to stay and he was all over her and came into my room as normal everything was peachy. On Friday my boyfriend came to stay and he went home today. Henry wouldn't come near me or my OH wouldn't stay in the same room and if he did he was hiding under the coffee table he wouldn't even come into my room he would slink along, realise OH was in my room and belt it down to the coffee table. Now he has gone I'm all that's good again? Does he feel threatened by my BF?

[Hopkirk]

Anyone who claims to understand cats is either lying or deluded.

A lot of what they do is probably carefully calculated to confuse us.

[Psybbo]

Henry will come round as soon as the bf gives him some treats x

[tonyav]

Mmmmm, the blackmail method.

[ferlew]

My lad is 14 tomorrow, happy birthday Louie :)

[pixie373]

Works on all males, doesn't it sibs? ;-)

[Psybbo]

Works for me too, Tony

[tonyav]

Doh.

[queenofmean]

Thank you for all your suggestions.

Ferlew I wish that was the case but OH loves animals, he was down on all fours this morning playing with them.

I understand my cats fully Hopkirk but it was just so out of character for Henry to act like this. Other peoples cats I don't understand half the time as I'm not with them 24/7.

Good idea sibs...I'll atm him with treats next time wonder how he feels about being smothered in salmon Henry loves salmon

[Psybbo]

Oh Pixie crossed posts!

[ferlew]

Packet of Dreamies? My lad loves em.

[pixie373]

Great minds, psybbo:-)

hi tony, fancy a dreamie?

[tonyav]

Meow purrrrr purrrrr.

[pixie373]

Yep. It works.

[queenofmean]

Does your cat act like the one in the Advert? Henry likes the Felix crispies but Teddy loves Dreamies he really would jump through walls to get to them

[Psybbo]

Damn, he's done it again :-)

[tonyav]

Those Dreamies are like some sort of drug for our cat.

[boxtops]

Ours won't touch Dreamies, Dentabits are our faves.

[Hopkirk]

I love Terry Pratchett's description of cat chess.

Cat Chess: “This needs, as the playing area, something the size of a small village. Up to a dozen cats can take part. Each cat selects a vantage point—a roof, the coal house wall, a strategic corner or, in quiet villages, the middle of the road—and sits there. You think it’s just found a nice spot to sun itself until you realise that each cat can see at least two other cats. Moves are made in a sort of high-speed slink with the belly almost touching the ground. The actual rules are a little unclear to humans, but it would seem that the object of the game is to see every other cat while remaining unseen yourself. This is just speculation, however, and it may well be that the real game is going on at some mystically higher level unobtainable by normal human minds, as in cricket.”

[boxtops]

I like that, Hopkirk! :-)