Hello everyone, first time poster. As a matter of fact I would have never found this site if it weren't for the odd question I have. First off I own two cats, both are "adopted" (aka cats that I found and could not find the original owners for so they sort of moved in). My older cat Hunter is at least 16-17 years old and in renal failure for going on 2 years now (poor guy). The younger female one Chai is approximately 1 year old and extremely feisty.
Chai is always wanting to play play play and Hunter wants nothing to do with her. Of course this leads to a lot of sneak attacks from Chai when Hunter is passing by. So I'm no stranger to hissing and yowling. Any way normally it's pretty quick and then it's over, Chai usually runs off after getting her sneak attack in and Hunters walks off. Yesterday though I heard Hunter making his "I'm extremely mad" sound over and over again, I go into my bedroom to see what's up low and behold there's Chai sitting on Hunter as if he was a sofa! Normally if I have to intervene Chai takes off running at the very sight of me approaching her, this time however she just looked up at me as if she was just chilling out and nothing was wrong. Hunter of course was still yowling at her, but she just acted like she could have cared less.
Any way they stayed like that for at least a minute and I had to snap a picture of it with my iPhone. Can somebody please tell me what is behind this behavior? Is it some sort of dominance thing?
Chai is always wanting to play play play and Hunter wants nothing to do with her. Of course this leads to a lot of sneak attacks from Chai when Hunter is passing by. So I'm no stranger to hissing and yowling. Any way normally it's pretty quick and then it's over, Chai usually runs off after getting her sneak attack in and Hunters walks off. Yesterday though I heard Hunter making his "I'm extremely mad" sound over and over again, I go into my bedroom to see what's up low and behold there's Chai sitting on Hunter as if he was a sofa! Normally if I have to intervene Chai takes off running at the very sight of me approaching her, this time however she just looked up at me as if she was just chilling out and nothing was wrong. Hunter of course was still yowling at her, but she just acted like she could have cared less.
Any way they stayed like that for at least a minute and I had to snap a picture of it with my iPhone. Can somebody please tell me what is behind this behavior? Is it some sort of dominance thing?