Hello, I’m Christopher! Learn my introduction to be taught extra about me and my foolish Russian Blue cat, Olga.
Cats hold 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 habits can get them into hassle 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 cause, it impacts how some folks understand felines.
Feline Stalking
Stalking isn’t an admirable high quality in people, but it surely’s a part of a cat’s DNA and unlikely to be diminished by selective breeding. A sneak assault by a cat hiding at nighttime could trigger your coronary heart to skip a beat or make you scream, and I’m positive some unethical house owners have reacted violently. In contrast to most cat dad and mom, I’m pleased with my cat when she takes me unexpectedly 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’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 additionally 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 other way to assault. In contrast to the felines that shock folks in films, Olga appears extra energized than frightened.
Hollywood’s Feline Stalkers
Frightened cats usually leap out and shriek once they scare folks in horror movies. It normally happens when a personality appears for a killer or creature in a creepy setting, like an deserted warehouse, and jumps again once 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 abilities if frightened.
Younger Olga’s Strategies
If she’s scared, she hides below a sofa and doesn’t transfer, however stalking is a recreation to her. She must be in an excellent temper, however when she was a kitten, she was extra aggressive and craftier.
She shocked 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 method up the again and hit me within the head. Olga’s not as artistic together with her stalking strikes as we speak, however she nonetheless assaults me when she’s hiding at nighttime.
This text is part of Christopher and Olga’s sequence.
