We just got a new cat, Amber, three months ago. She seems happy and content, and she's gentle with us, but we started letting her out and she is fighting the local cats.
The second day I let her out I heard screeching and ran outside to see that she'd chased the little tabby who likes to sit on our roof back into her garden and was spitting at her and making swiping motions with her paw from the top of their fence. They had one more scuffle after that and I haven't seen the tabby since.
This evening a neighbour from down the street knocked on the door and said Amber attacked their cat (a different one) in the car park, another neighbour saw it. Apparently as the cat was walking away she leapt on him and dug her claws in his back. She was angry so I offered to cover the vet bill if they wanted to get him checked but she declined. She said my cat is a bully and I should keep her inside.
Our cat likes to be outside patrolling her garden. In fact she cries to go out and it's hard to get her back in! And I would feel cruel taking that away from her. I said that it's just territory wars and the cats will work out between themselves who is allowed where soon enough. They won't keep fighting. That wasn't what she wanted to hear.
I should probably post this in AIBU but I don't like that board. Do be honest though, am I handling this badly? I've had a cat before, but she didn't act like this.
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GoReylo · 15/12/2017 20:46
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