Pepper(a.k.a. Emerald, a.k.a. Nanna, lol) attacked hubby today!
He kept trying to tickle me(I HATE being tickled!) and so I ran in the room(Pepper is in the room). Well, once he finally got the door open he freaked Pepper out and she came charging at him and tried to bit his leg(thankfully he had shoes and jeans on)! She is such a sweet cat and is super loving, so why would she do this and how can we work on it?
As a background, Pepper is a cat that I took in a few days ago because she needed a home to stay in til she could get a premanent one. She was owned by a family with young children, but she lived on the street. She has had about 3-4 litter of kittens in her short life(guessing about 2-3 years old) and was not taken good care of.
Right now she is staying with me and I am hand-raising 2 orphan kittens that are 4 weeks old. Well, she has a super strong mothering instinct so her first reaction was to hop in kittens' box and take over, so I let her(she had been vet checked first and was given a clean bill of health). The reason she was in the room was because that's where I keep the kittens and since she insists on taking care of them I let her stay in the room in their box and snuggle/mother them.
She DOES have a strange quirk of growling when she smells/eats her food and when she hears a loud noise(mainly when someone yells; my neighbour's kids are noisy). She has never seemed aggressive in the least when she growls, she just seems to do it out of habit rather then anger, so I never thought much of it. However, the odd growling+attacking hubby makes me believe that she has a "dark side".
What do you all think about it?
He kept trying to tickle me(I HATE being tickled!) and so I ran in the room(Pepper is in the room). Well, once he finally got the door open he freaked Pepper out and she came charging at him and tried to bit his leg(thankfully he had shoes and jeans on)! She is such a sweet cat and is super loving, so why would she do this and how can we work on it?
As a background, Pepper is a cat that I took in a few days ago because she needed a home to stay in til she could get a premanent one. She was owned by a family with young children, but she lived on the street. She has had about 3-4 litter of kittens in her short life(guessing about 2-3 years old) and was not taken good care of.
Right now she is staying with me and I am hand-raising 2 orphan kittens that are 4 weeks old. Well, she has a super strong mothering instinct so her first reaction was to hop in kittens' box and take over, so I let her(she had been vet checked first and was given a clean bill of health). The reason she was in the room was because that's where I keep the kittens and since she insists on taking care of them I let her stay in the room in their box and snuggle/mother them.
She DOES have a strange quirk of growling when she smells/eats her food and when she hears a loud noise(mainly when someone yells; my neighbour's kids are noisy). She has never seemed aggressive in the least when she growls, she just seems to do it out of habit rather then anger, so I never thought much of it. However, the odd growling+attacking hubby makes me believe that she has a "dark side".
What do you all think about it?
