Hello, I’m Christopher! Learn my introduction to be taught extra about me and my foolish Russian Blue cat, Olga.
Cats maintain us entertained, and most cat house owners are joyful to share their properties with miniature, barely psychotic predators. They’re friendlier and extra clever than some give them credit score for, however their conduct can get them into bother and result in rehoming or euthanization.
Aggression and inappropriate elimination are the commonest causes for booting a cat out of the home and sending them to a shelter, and whereas stalking will not be a justifiable motive, it impacts how some folks understand felines.
Feline Stalking
Stalking isn’t an admirable high quality in people, however it’s a part of a cat’s DNA and unlikely to be diminished by selective breeding. A sneak assault by a cat hiding in the dead of night could trigger your coronary heart to skip a beat or make you scream, and I’m positive some unethical house owners have reacted violently. Not like most cat mother and father, I’m happy with my cat when she takes me without warning and impressed by her stealth.
I get irritated when she forgets to retract her claws earlier than attacking my legs, however more often than not, she solely makes use of her pads after a sneak assault. I’m her favourite goal since she will be able to’t go exterior and solely hunts bugs in the summertime.
Olga’s Creepy Pleasure
The household of mockingbirds in my yard raiding my blueberry bushes are fortunate Olga has to look at them from a windowsill and can’t have interaction in predatory stalking. It’s not solely instinctual for cats to stalk and assault their house owners but in addition entertaining. Olga is happiest when she jumps in entrance of me, hunches up her again, and assaults my calves with each paws.
She likes to be chased round the home and waits till my head is turned and I’m strolling in the wrong way to assault. Not like the felines that shock folks in motion pictures, Olga appears to be like extra energized than frightened.
Hollywood’s Feline Stalkers
Frightened cats typically leap out and shriek after they scare folks in horror movies. It often happens when a personality appears to be like for a killer or creature in a creepy setting, like an deserted warehouse, and jumps again after they discover a cat as a substitute.
In Alien, Jonesy (the cat) surprises Brett when he walks across the creepiest space of the ship and hisses to warn him that he’s about to be devoured by the extraterrestrial behind him. Since she’s not very vocal or protecting, Olga would run earlier than warning me of hazard and wouldn’t use her stalking expertise if frightened.
Younger Olga’s Strategies
If she’s scared, she hides beneath a sofa and doesn’t transfer, however stalking is a sport to her. She must be in a great temper, however when she was a kitten, she was extra aggressive and craftier.
She stunned and attacked me once I took a bathe, turned off the sunshine to go to mattress, and at any time when I used to be half asleep within the recliner. When the recliner was within the upright place, she would claw her means up the again and hit me within the head. Olga’s not as artistic together with her stalking strikes at this time, however she nonetheless assaults me when she’s hiding in the dead of night.
This text is part of Christopher and Olga’s sequence.
