Cat scratching

[Colpol]

Once, I've read cats are doing this frequently when they are emotionally stressed..Especially, when it feels threatened by environmental changes or a new pet.. Could be one of these reason casues this behaviour?

We have had her for 3 years and nothing has changed since we got her. Only pet and appears very happy and playful. no other cats in the area so pretty sure stress is not a problem.

[piroska]

Nope. Stressed cats spray....or become anxious and hide. Not scratch

[Lurking]

The Dog Whisperer would kick it on the flank to break the cycle.

We used to throw a shoe or tennis ball at a grey tabby that kept trying to do it to Mum's woolen shawl, which hung on the back door hanger, quite a large cat too.

OFF topic:

Best thing to catch mice and rats, sheepskins laid down, they get caught on the fibers and are easy to kill with a large bunch of door keys, the real old ones.

We owned a bake house back in the thirties and made real bread, etc.

B*gger, those days are gone.

lurking.

[1101]

Best thing to catch rats & mice is a good cat. One that spends the night hunting for them .

Unless it brings them inside to play with & then looses them .

[Roscoe]

Unless it brings them inside to play with & then looses them .

We have a cat that brings them in at night, very occasionally thank goodness, and leaves them, thankfully dead, in the hallway. In the morning we keep an eye out just in case.

[piroska]

Unless it brings them inside to play with & then looses them .

Hoover caught a mouse here. First thing ever apart from bugs.
He did exactly that, he wanted to watch it...
It went under a rather heavy item of furniture and I wasn't going to play move the furniture chasey with the thing, so I went and got PK.

She sat there for hours, we gave up watching and left her to it.

Sometime that night she got it....I know cause she'd left a tiny bit of its toe uneaten. Hoover has learned, you don't let them go now....