Hehehe...
You'll notice it only happens when she sees, or smells, the other cat. Your home is her home, and unless she starts getting used to the other cat, you are going to have it happen quite a bit more. She is defending her den from a threat.
I think I'm finally accepting that lol but the black cat is beyond beautiful, they are not stray, they belong to the beighbour a few doors down, there are two of them, big fluffy black cats with regal faces, it will be hard to resist the temptation not to stroke them anymore.
And personally my indoor cats stay indoors, unless they are on their leash with me. To many violent pit bulls whose owners let them run amok. The strays and ferals know what to do when a dog runs at them. My indoor male Sterling is large enough to eat a Chihuahua, and he keeps our pit bull mix in line. But a pit bull who is a known, psychotic, cat killer, is a tad much.
P.S. I always have the cats meet through a screen door first, and let them growl and caterwaul, and whatnot for a bit, then close the main door. And do it every day, pretty soon they are looking to see each other.
The vet actually looked at me like I was evil incarnate when i said I wasn't sure if she would be an outdoor cat, like I was a jail warder
. It's just back when I was a child, before my father became more religious, he bought me and my sister a kitten each, and one day they never came back. The garden had been cemented fresh the day they left, and for my entire childhood their footprints were still imprinted on the floor
so obviously I am afraid of losing her too.
However I haven't seen any stray dogs in this area and I have been here for 4yrs now. There are plenty of foxes though.
I also don't have a screen door, so I can't do what actually sounds like a great plan
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