Hey all,
I have two cats, both 4 years old (or 3 can't remember).... and they have recently started fighting, bad enough that one of them got a wound on their back that my wife saw and we thought it was something else... it is/was a scab thats now getting smaller and smaller. But now today (my wife and I were away from the house for day) I just came back to see the other cat with a large gash behind its ear. It doesn't look infected and i just cleaned it and applied some anti-bacterial cream to it. I am wondering what has brought this change of behaviour about.
These are two strictly indoor cats (both fixed,one male one female), although let on the patio (which I have recently restricted because our 'chicken wire' jail got a hole in it). Can the no going outside have really changed all of this behaviour?
They eat side by side with no hissing, but when they approach each other (recently) there is occasionally hissing, but I just saw them sitting beside each other and there was no hissing, they did 'fight' before but never with any 'damage.'
There is also a dog living in the house (but for a while 8 months) with the cats.
This recently(the fights with damage) happened after one of our cats had gone to the vet for the day to get its teeth fixed.......
Any help would be greatly appreciated as I don't want a fight t break out where a cat loses an eye or something ridiculous like that.
I have two cats, both 4 years old (or 3 can't remember).... and they have recently started fighting, bad enough that one of them got a wound on their back that my wife saw and we thought it was something else... it is/was a scab thats now getting smaller and smaller. But now today (my wife and I were away from the house for day) I just came back to see the other cat with a large gash behind its ear. It doesn't look infected and i just cleaned it and applied some anti-bacterial cream to it. I am wondering what has brought this change of behaviour about.
These are two strictly indoor cats (both fixed,one male one female), although let on the patio (which I have recently restricted because our 'chicken wire' jail got a hole in it). Can the no going outside have really changed all of this behaviour?
They eat side by side with no hissing, but when they approach each other (recently) there is occasionally hissing, but I just saw them sitting beside each other and there was no hissing, they did 'fight' before but never with any 'damage.'
There is also a dog living in the house (but for a while 8 months) with the cats.
This recently(the fights with damage) happened after one of our cats had gone to the vet for the day to get its teeth fixed.......
Any help would be greatly appreciated as I don't want a fight t break out where a cat loses an eye or something ridiculous like that.