Is Your Cat a Stalker? Olga’s Creepy Methods

Hello, I’m Christopher! Learn my introduction to be taught extra about me and my foolish Russian Blue cat, Olga.

Cats preserve us entertained, and most cat homeowners are pleased to share their houses 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 most typical causes for booting a cat out of the home and sending them to a shelter, and whereas stalking is probably not a justifiable cause, it impacts how some folks understand felines.

Feline Stalking

Stalking isn’t an admirable high quality in people, nevertheless it’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 certain some unethical homeowners have reacted violently. Not like 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 be able to’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 observe them from a windowsill and can’t have interaction in predatory stalking. It’s not solely instinctual for cats to stalk and assault their homeowners 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. Not like the felines that shock folks in motion pictures, Olga appears extra energized than frightened.

Hollywood’s Feline Stalkers

Frightened cats typically leap out and shriek once they scare folks in horror movies. It often 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 expertise if frightened.

Younger Olga’s Strategies

If she’s scared, she hides beneath a sofa and doesn’t transfer, however stalking is a sport to her. She needs to be in a very good 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 each time I used to be half asleep within the recliner. When the recliner was within the upright place, she would claw her means up the again and hit me within the head. Olga’s not as inventive together with her stalking strikes at this time, however she nonetheless assaults me when she’s hiding at nighttime.