Ever feel like a punching bag for your cat’s bad mood?

[calmama]

My cat likes me most. Rarely approaches anyone else. But if his fragile male ego gets bruised I’m the one who cops the scratching, biting and bunny kicks.

Just rescued him from the next door neighbours’ terrorist of a cat. Get him inside and try to give him a pep talk to make him feel better. Instead he launches at me. I tell him to fuck off, but know he’ll creep into bed with me in the night and expect me to be the big spoon.

WTF is wrong with cats? And men? AIBU?

Not so much that I cop for her bad moods, but she definitely applies traditional parenting roles to me and husband. He is fun favourite Daddy, and is the one she chooses to sit on in the evening. She even climbs down from me and goes to him if I pick her up 😠 I am rubbish boring Mummy, until she is scared or in pain or hasn’t seen me for a bit, in which case she clings to me like a little limpet.

Another arsehole then @LoobyDop

Gosh. I just don’t read this much personality into my cat. He comes and goes, if he ever buy me I’d chuck him out of the house, he gets crazy I chuck him out of the house, he fights with the dog, I chuck him out of the house. I feed him twice a day, stroke him a bit if he comes up to me, and the rest of the time he sleeps.

My grumpiest cat used to seek out the dog and biff her when disgruntled.
I am also the only person grumpy deliberately scratches and bunny kicks.. she is always sweetness itself with DD and DH 😂
I forgive this because she is lovely in the in-between moments and very affectionate.

Sorry YABU. All I can say is OP know your place. If you hadn’t interfered your Dcat would clearly have won the argument in the next few minutes and so really only yourself to blame because he wouldn’t have needed the pep talk. (And he certainly would not have run up a Elton John shopping spree sized vets bill!)

My cats takes his anger out on my husband instead of me which suits me fine 😂

I did think perhaps I embarrassed him in front of his bully @LittleRedYarny. But if my cat’s an asshole, the neighbour’s cat’s Hitler. This guy has terrorised the cat community up and down our street, breaks into houses and steals other cats’ food, doesn’t bat a whisker as cars mount the kerb to avoid driving over him as he warms himself in the middle of the road…

I’m so well trained I’m pathetically grateful for the clinginess. She puked up a hairball about a foot from my head at 3:30 this morning, and I not only wasn’t annoyed, I let her wake me up again for a cuddle an hour later.

I'm a relatively new cat owner, we rescued our boss about a month ago. She scammed us. All butter wouldn't melt at the rescue centre, rubbing against us, purring, "look at me, pick me, I'm so cute and friendly". It was an act.

She sits and looks out the back doors, meowing to go out, with her big cat eyes, but the minute you go to touch the handle to open it, she launches at either your hand or your feet. And what is with the bunny kicks?? Get up in the middle of the night because she's yelling for food, or to play, or to find you - then bam! Full scale, two front paw attack on your slippers, teeth locked on, and back paws kicking like a bucking bronco. Wouldn't swap her though.

Totally didn't read that properly, thought it said do you ever get a bad mood and punch your cat. A bold AIBU.

@edwinbear Ours is a rescue too. And I tell him all the time he’s a good boy, and he didn’t do anything wrong for him mum to leave him. That maybe she just got lost. He just stares at me with murderous intent.

@DrManhattan Nah, I’d never punch a cat. I might refuse to spoon him though if he doesn’t let up. He’s just so warm though…

My cat once bashed me across the face during a Zoom meeting because she thought (incorrectly) that I was late with her dinner.

Mine cries if he accidentally scratches me so no...
Only has one tooth and spends most of his time cuddling me or looking adoringly at me

I definitely take the brunt of it, DP winds her up, gets her all fighty and she'll fly across the room to bite ME.

She also applies traditional parenting roles to me, I am the one she stares at for food, DP will walk into the kitchen and fetch her pouch out and she'll still sit staring at me, apparently I am the only one in the house with that super power. Strangely when my mom visits, she'll chase her into the kitchen to be fed, but never DP or the teens.

The closer mine gets to me in bed, the worse a thing he has done.
So when he's literally sitting on my pillow and I am basically wearing him like a hat, I can be pretty sure he has pissed on the kitchen floor as he was appalled by the fact his own nighttime shit was still in the litter tray.

The big ginger fluffy bastard.

Still adore him though.

He also likes to bite me in teams meetings for not giving him attention.

The ridiculous thing is, that as I'm trying to gently shake off a cat that's clearly trying to kill me, I'm apologising, in case I hurt her as I'm defending my life.

You are being unreasonable.
He's a cat
He rules

The end

I really miss my neighbour's cat. When he got put out into the garden he would climb the fence between our houses. Eyeball whoever threw him out and then pee on their clothes line and them strut along the fence.

aaah cats.

Love them.

We have a brand new cat from a rescue centre. She is 20 years of age and a total thug. She demands attention and cuddles then when she has had enough comes at you with her fists and claws flying.

She has totally got us under her (beclawed) thumb. We are besotted.

Isn’t this what our ankles are for? My old trout certainly thinks so

Agreed.

I've just fleed my 3 cats this afternoon, none of them are speaking to me just giving me death stares. Normally they fight to sit on my lap.

My cat and my man are both lovely!💕