Does anyone else have a cat who has attitude ..........

[Catjane]

My Shanti is a cat with Attitude!  Ooooh!  She gets a right little cob on when she doesn't agree with something!  If I have to remove her from tearing the wallpaper or something, she won't speak to me for hours!  She's the most affectionate of the three, and generally loves being picked up and cuddled, but if I pick her up when she's trying to hide (cause I want her out of the hallway and away from the already sorry looking wallpaper) she'll turn and grab my arm with all her claws, and I can carry her in to the sitting room without actually holding her    She holds me, fighting my arm!  Yowling all the way, of course!  Stings a bit tho!!  Oh, and she likes to take pot swipes at me or the others from time to time.  Had the vet in stitches once when I'd taken all three for their jabs.  Shanti took exception to being put back in the carrier, whilst Sabu was waiting patiently for his turn just outside.  When she thought we weren't looking, she stuck her paw through the mesh and gave poor old Sabu a sound swipe across his head!!     Loses something in the telling, but it was so funny!

[Susanne (urbantigers)]

Jaffa's the gentlest little lad imaginable but sometimes he gets between me and the pc screen and if I try to move him I get hissed at.  He likes to sit on my lap when I'm at the computer and I'm happy with that, and sometimes he'll sit beside the screen but if he wants to walk back and forth in front of the screen then how dare I try to move him!  I have found that bringing out the nail clippers usually gets him moving though 

[Sam (Fussy_Furball)]

Zephyr has attitude but not Bad attitude ... he has what can only be described as a superiority complex  he sometimes looks at me like I am completely stupid and most definitely beneath him!

[fuzziesdad]

"kizzy" in her eighteenth year and lies on my computer table and follows the cursor everywhere and has the odd swipe at my hand (so whats new there then) she has always been a cat with attitude ever since she was a kitten when she was not even ours but she had one horrible life and I think thats why she adopted us her and I have always had a connection but she has always been feisty so you have to watch your fingers.

[forever_missing_my_boys(Lisa)]

Whenever i brush molly she has to b bribed with ham or chicken if not she wont let me brush her she tries to attack

the thing that suprises me is shes fine going to the vet she will go in the basket with no problems at all and when she sees the vet she is a different cat shes rubbing herself againest the vet purrrringgggg lol
 
shes so krafty 

[Desley (booktigger)]

Yeah, have lived with a few cats like that!! Tiger is the worst at the moment, I suspect her owner didn't socialise her very well, and she only tolerates stroking for a few minutes (unless it is her nose), and brushing is a no no - her fur is looking awful cos of it though, but she will attack the brush if I try!!

[Rosella moggy]

Hi Ela.  Lucy isn't feral and can be picked up and fussed, in fact demands it and digs her claws in if my friend tries to move her off her lap before Lucy is ready. Everything is on Lucy's terms.  My friend is therefore able to give her flea treatment.  She cannot however get her into a basket.  Lucy doesn't go outside and is an only cat (they daren't get another) so, whilst I agree annual jabs would be a good thing, they are not quite so important for her. The cat basket is left out and open so if Lucy happens to be in it when there is an open surgery, the idea is they can just shut the door and bring her to the vet. Hasn't happened yet though.

The fact is my friend and her hubby are scared of Lucy and Lucy knows it. I did get a birds eye view of badly behaved Lucy when she saw me giving pills to her son when he was ill. She backed away spitting ending up on top of the kitchen wall cupboards which is where she ends up when they try to get her into a basket. She seemed quite feral then.

My friend and her hubby are not short of dosh so they will pay for the vet call out if needed.

[Ela]

This means she never goes to the vets.

How does your friend manage to flea her? With the ferals we spray where they sleep with Staykill and whenever new bedding is put out that is always sprayed too.

Your friend could always borrow a trap from a rescue so Lucy could go to the vets for annual injections etc.

[Rosella moggy]

My friend took on a cat Lucy with her kitten Noodles about 8 years ago. She had never had cats before and fell madly in love with Noodles. Unfortunately Noodles passed away through illness a couple of years ago. He was a very lovely cuddly cat. His mom is and has always been a nightmare. I tried explaining to my friend that she needed to nip Lucy's bad behaviour in the bud early on but it was not to be. Lucy is very beautiful and appallingly spoilt with a very bad temper unless things are going precisely the way she wants. This means she never goes to the vets. Thankfully she has not had any ill health to speak of although a tooth extaction a few years ago involved the vet and an assistant collecting her with the aid of gauntlets.

My friend and her hubby wouldn't dream of asking Lucy to move seats or move out of the way of something. Lucy rules.

[forever_missing_my_boys(Lisa)]

Does anyone else have a cat who has attitude when ever u try to move them from somewhere or stop em doing something wrong

molly was blocking my view from the pc screen and all i did was gently move her and omg she swiped at me she hissed and clawed all my arm