Growling cat - does anyone else get this?

Sirbendy

Normally my boys get on well...better than well if I'm honest. Rarely do we have tantrums, but tonight Hex spat the dummy out and had a good long growl session at Fudge. It was a dominance thing, I'm sure - fudge had just fished some meat out of Jems finished food, and Hex nicked it.

He got told to pack it in...it continued. He's really VERY bass. Jem tapped him on the head, and he started hissing at her, which is where I stepped in and bodily removed said (now rigid and hissing) moggy. This is a first.

Anyway, once I'd put him out in the dark hall for a few minutes, he wanted back in. So I let him. He then got another bit of meat, and the growl came back. Not at us, or fudge..but at the table! Then he swiped the leg. Then he growled at the meat, while eating it.:rotfl:

Does anyone elses cat get carried away and grumbly when eating "forbidden" food nabbed from a plate? He's as soft as anything any other time..but he gets really enthusiastic over it. Strange boy.

He's back to normal again now..heh...:rolleyes:

RacyRed

My boy does that when he has prey and is warning of the girls away from it. Or sometimes if he has food he really, really loves he will do a deep rumbly growl while he is eating it. He only hisses when he has live prey.

Usually he is as gentle as a lamb and will happily let the girls push him off his food bowl if they want his share that much, and just watch tolerantly while they eat it.

However, if it happens to be beef night, then the deep grumbles start. He will tolerate me stopping him from eating three portions of dinner one straight after the other, but lets me know he thinks I'm really heartless to do so. He then sits and watches every mouthful the girls take until they finally give up, decide that they would really prefer their dried food just now thank you, and leave their bowls to him.

Sometimes he will start the deep growl when he can smell the beef cooking, it really startled me the first couple of times to hear a noise like that coming from somewhere in the region of my feet! :rotfl: :rotfl:

c6h4m1

Mine also try that when they've got prey. It doesn't get them very far, I just grab them by the back of the neck and remove said prey Other than that I'd have thought none of my cats knew how to growl!

Charlie1986

Mine growls at the window cleaner and postman and anyone who comes down our driveway. Also at birds and other cats in the garden. He growls louder than my dog :rolleyes:

UKTigerlily

Mine never growls but her Brother used to if he had Prey, I did the same as C6h & scruffed him & removed it! The Dog only growls in her sleep!

Sirbendy

Glad I'm not the only one then..he only started this a few months back, and we were both looking for the cause of the odd noise..:o

Krystaltips

My grumpy cat growls at everything! Swipes at most things... Hisses frequently...

My boy never makes a peep.... But his sister growls at him when he tries to get fruity...