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From loving to hissing and growling...what's going on?

post #1 of 5
11/13/10 at 1:52pm
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I took in 6 cats about a year ago that showed up on my doorstep (all about a year old). We fell in love with them as we watched them loving and playing with each other. I took two at a time to be spayed/neutered and each time two would come home from the vet, the others would hiss and growl at them. Okay, I get the bad memory from that smell..and they were back to smothering each other with affection within a day or two. All of a sudden, now it seems all my babies have gone their separate way. All the females (I have 4) and one male hiss and growl when another approaches. I only have one male that doesn't act like this toward the others. What happened? It is breaking my heart that they act like this toward each other and no longer play for half the morning. Is there a reason for this behavior and is there anything I can do to help them get back to their "close-nit family" status? (They basically stay outside but we let them in whenever they want...a few of them do roam)
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post #2 of 5
11/14/10 at 8:53am
I have no experience with indoor/outdoor kitties, I'm sorry. Ours are indoor only. We had five that were all very cuddly in the RV for the first two years of their lives with us. We moved from the RV into a house after that, and they spread out. Though they didn't become overly hissy at eath other, they definitely stopped being cuddly, and other than on our bed (and even sometimes then), if one of the cats got too close to another one, they'd get bopped. I think they're just growing up, and going their own ways and doing their own things.

I should note... we moved back into the RV after about 4 years in a house (we adopted one more kitty while in the house, and two more cats in the 2+ years we've been in the RV, so now we have 8). They're far less hissy and boppy at each other now. They're not particularly cuddly, certainly not like they used to be - but they're not as aggressive about needing their space.

We did notice that (most of) our females are more hissy than the males.
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post #3 of 5
11/14/10 at 8:31pm
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Thanks...that sounds a lot like our situation....but they do growl and hiss a lot. It is just breaking my heart because they seemed so close and now almost like strangers. The two males still love on each other and don't do the hissing thing (one does when the females do it first). I appreciate your input though!
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post #4 of 5
11/14/10 at 11:44pm
I wonder if its a girl thing, lol. Our female despises our 2 males and will let them know in the form of hissing, growling and a swat to the head but the boys love each other and snuggle all the time. My sister has two females and they don't seem close anymore, even though they are from the same litter..I've seen them get nasty with each other a few times.
Doesn't seem like a huge problem as long as they aren't full on attacking on attacking one another. Cats are a strange species...I don't think I understand them at all.
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post #5 of 5
11/15/10 at 8:01am
Hello All,

As previously stated I think it is a female cat thing. All three of my female cats (two indoor-outdoor and one indoor) do not get along very well. But the male cats get along fine. If only the occasional hiss. While the females can become aggressive with one another on occasion.

Has anyone else had similar circumstances? If so I would like to hear about them .
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