How can I tell the difference between playing & fighting? What do I look for? Do I stop it if they are fighting? How do I handle it?
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Dinah & ScatCat
- Thread starter dinahcat
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From my very brief but very recent experience. Playing and fighting will be totally different. Fighting is accompanied by sounds of anxiety like how a rattlesnake rattles before striking. I just introduced Jack to my new kitty Kahlua. Boy, Jack growled and growled. They also would hiss when one got too close to the other. But as of this morning, they were chasing each other and jumping all over one another. This defies typical cat introduction behavior so I'm expecting a messy house when i get home. But watch for sounds and figity behavior. Definately don't let them fight. Remove one into another room to let them calm down.
if you look at the fight, fight thread, you can see a pic of my two older cats 'fighting'. in some of these pix, Pixel definitely looks angry, but Cable never does (she's the instigator). you can tell from the ear placement most of the time. hope this helps!
