If you allow your cat to journey outside in the big wild outdoors, I seriously suggest you take kitty to your vet at a young age and start getting him vaccinated! And ensure it is done annually without question! This is important if you don't want your kitty to become contaminated by nasties like Feline Aids (FIV) that is passed through blood while fighting. This too protects your cat from numerous other different diseases around such as Feline Leukemia
(FLV). Additionally it is highly advisable to get them neutered. Unspayed males will fight fiercely to get a female if she is in heat, which sometimes leave both cats in shreds and spayed males can find themselves in the midst of something they do not realize if an unspayed male gets the wrong idea...
Cats brawling outside at night time can be quite of a shock, as frequently they sound close to a child shrieking or yelling, and it is definitely the very last thing you need to listen to when your attempting to sleep in the dead of night! My ultimate method of removing cats engaged in a brawl is to turn the hosepipe on them, as loud noises won't distract them in the slightest as they are surely concentrating too much on the other cat!
For inside cats, clearly wet everywhere in the carpet is unwanted so I find usually placing a large object between the two that will cut off eye contact with both cats stops the fighting. If they are engaged in a brawl, don't get in the way as cat scratches can not just harm, but tend to be more likely to become infected than dog nips. Use a chair and turn upside down and use the rear of the stool and gently manouvre the stool between the cats, this may distract them and stop them from scrapping. Offer the cats 'time out' by placing one in a closed room for a quick period of time.
An effective tell-tale indication if a cat is wary, is that the hair will rise up all around the body and when the cat threatens or is prepared to attack, you will see the fur rise up within a narrow band over the spine and tail to make him look larger, and that's also an adequate time to get out that garden hose or stool!
With the average lifespan of an outside only cat if they are untamed or unferal, is barely about three years! And that is why if you like your kitty and want him to have a healthy life, you can keep him indoors and he can live a gigantic 16 years more!
Not only will you benefit from keeping your kitty living longer in the house, it should save you expensive vet bills for contaminated scratches, cracked teeth, scratched ears, and so on by these nasty scraps.
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