My Cat is attacking me furiously

[Sefal]

its not possible she is pregant. we keep her indoors and as soon as she falls from the balcony she screams for help and tries everything she can to get back. she is then completly afraid.

[Katzztar]

Sefal, have you checked out any cat behavior websites? There is one show on the Animal Planet that is the cat-version of Ceasar Milan's Dog behavior. It's called "My cat from Hell", the guy Jackson is very good on working with cats and understanding how and why the cat the way they do.
As I was watching it tonight, I thought of you and your cat. In my previous post I didn't ask if she has any access to a high area. Cats feel safer when they can watch their area from a high area. When she follows you around, she may want one fo three things = food, attention or play.

Playing with her (when she is in the mood) helps get some tension and agression out. I suggest a toy that is on a long pole/stick with a string attached from the pole to the toy. That would keep your hands away from her claws but give her a way to get the stress out of her system.

http://animal.discovery.com/the-spot/cat-people/ Included on this page is a link to "My cat from Hell" I suggest checking it out for ideas

[Sefal]

i have ordered a laser pen from ebay. i did get her a mouse with a string attached and she somehow locked herself up in the string. so i got rid of those toys. if i wasnt arround she would have died.

i will definetly check out my cat from hell

[Cyclone_Baroness]

There's currently a few episodes of My Cat from Hell on Animal Planet right now, if you're on the westcoast. It is a very informative show. It's currently showing the one with the cat behaving a bit like yours. They got her spayed, it helped some but it took a while to get the cat to the point where she wasn't destructive or having feral tendancies. I guess the big issue is the humans putting out an air of fear and the cat reacting to those emotions.

One of the little tibits I hadn't considered before watching this show was classifying if your cat was a tree or a bush dweller. Hiding under stuff, lack of confidence, climbing up high displays confidence sometimes.

Also preventing them from getting into scent heavy rooms drives em a bit crazy I guess.

People have already given some great advice here .

[Katzztar]

i have ordered a laser pen from ebay. i did get her a mouse with a string attached and she somehow locked herself up in the string. so i got rid of those toys. if i wasnt arround she would have died.

i will definetly check out my cat from hell

She certainly sound ...hyper. I've never had any trouble with the toys on a string getting tangled up. But then every cat has different personalities. I had one that would ignore every toy on a string and only play with balled up paper and empty tubes from tiolet tissue lol.
Hmmm trying to think of toys that may help.

Are you near a Wal-Mart? They have a few cheep toys. Mine has a cheep lazer toy (just a few bucks at mine), along with a large more pricey automated lazer that stands (I've not bought that one since I'm stay at home, no need for automatic)
do any of her toys have catnip? Some cats dont react to it or react stronger than others

there was also a toy that had a what look like mouse that automatics runs around a round mat.

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Here is a direct link to a page of "My cat from hell" page that shows some of cat behavior=
http://animal.discovery.com/videos/m...galaxy-videos/ There are about 7 videos that are 2-3 minutes long.
Thre are some like "how to properly pet/play/bond with your cat" The one about play is important as it discuss about "bully cats" not having energy to attack.
Good ones would also be:
- cat's body launguage, he mentions signs that show when they are tense(attack ready) or calm
- deal with cat's anxiety
- how to handle a scared cat- this one mentions cats hiding under bed

[Sefal]

Hey, I wanted to thank you all for your great advice, Kazztar, Thank you for those links. I will watch them immideatily. my cat doesn't react too catnip as i had hoped he wouldd. I have finnaly found out why my cat attacks me. It's because of my socks. I know it's weird, but when I got home from work yesterday. My cat was really nice until I took my shoes off. She came near my feet and started attacking me again. I concluded that it was the smell of my dirty socks that drove her mad, but that was not it. In the morning I put on clean socks and she attacked me immidiately. Before I put on my socks. She is nice and comes near me and just does what she ussually does.

I really want to know why my socks drive her crazy. It can't be of the smell. Because when I get home I take off my socks as quickly as possible and stand near her with my bare feet and she does nothing.

[Schwerer Gustav]

When you kicked her away was it with sock-covered feet? That's the only reason I can puzzle out of this crazy cat debacle. And I'm by no means a cat expert so it's more like idle speculation.

[Katzztar]

Hey, I wanted to thank you all for your great advice, Kazztar, Thank you for those links. I will watch them immideatily. my cat doesn't react too catnip as i had hoped he wouldd. I have finnaly found out why my cat attacks me. It's because of my socks. I know it's weird, but when I got home from work yesterday. My cat was really nice until I took my shoes off. She came near my feet and started attacking me again. I concluded that it was the smell of my dirty socks that drove her mad, but that was not it. In the morning I put on clean socks and she attacked me immidiately. Before I put on my socks. She is nice and comes near me and just does what she ussually does.

I really want to know why my socks drive her crazy. It can't be of the smell. Because when I get home I take off my socks as quickly as possible and stand near her with my bare feet and she does nothing.

You're welcome. Yeah I current cat, Tyche, is the only cat out of 8 that I have had that doesn't like catnip.

It could be that she had a bad experience with sock covered feet at some point, even if it didn't start until family moved.

When you kicked her away was it with sock-covered feet? That's the only reason I can puzzle out of this crazy cat debacle. And I'm by no means a cat expert so it's more like idle speculation.

Good call, it could be that she was irritable at some point, and was nudged or kicked by socked foot so now she identifes socked feet as danger.... I'd try to see if she's calm with bare feet, if so try to put an empty sock in an open area to see if she responds it or only when a sock is on feet. Try to go a few days without socks to see if it'll calm her, if so, then slowly reintroduce wearing socks but keeping the socked feet away from her and not making any treatening moves in her direaction.

[Sefal]

yes i did kick her with a sock covered feet, but that was after she attacked me like crazy. i went near her with my bare feet and she responded wel. then i invaded her territory with my bare feet. and she made a sign she would attack. she immidiately stopped as i put my shoes on. so while not as strong as socks, bare feet also irritate her if giving too much exposure

[Cyclone_Baroness]

That's so weird. And this is all fairly recent attackings? Does she only attack your feet? Maybe she's trying to tell you something is up with you? Animals sometimes act weirdly if the person has something going on internally.

Oh man, I want you to get this figured out because it's so strange lol. Oh and so you and your cat gets some relief. Do you ever go over to her with socks on but sit so you are closer to her level? Like if you sit cross-legged does she still try to get at them?

[Monkey King]

its not possible she is pregant. we keep her indoors and as soon as she falls from the balcony she screams for help and tries everything she can to get back. she is then completly afraid.

You need to stop saying this because each time you have it's clearly had no basis in anything.
You said she couldn't be in heat, even though there was literally no reason to think this when she isn't spayed, and than the doctor reccomends sterilizing her. So in other words the vet thought it was something to do with that.

If she's been outside your house any period of time she could have mated. Simple as that. If you want to solve the problem stop randomly cutting off totally possible things.

[Chrissie]

She is under tons of stress it seems. She needs you to be calm for her. If she goes under the bed, go into the bedroom, leave some of her favorite treats near her and sit a bit further away than her area. Start talking in a calm steady voice to her, maybe hum a song and generally keep your wits about even when she attacks.

[Smudger]

*pours water on sefal to calm him down*

[Don Quichotte De Flamingo]

That cat is having a fun time hurting people..what wrong with that?