You may remember a post back in May about me establishing myself as Alpha cat in our household. When we were gone for 2 weeks in Europe, I thought that Mao would re-establish his status as alpha cat. It didn't really happen though. I came home and moved right back into my top cat status.
Over the last week or so, he has been trying to assert his dominance. He's been misbehaving, beating up his sister and generally being a naughty cat. I needed to assert my alpha status again.
When he does something that he thinks is worthy of demonstrating his alpha cat status, he rubs his face against some stationary item in the house to get his scent on it and mark it as under his ownership. I decided that just scolding him and locking him in the basement when he misbehaves isn't enough. I need to establish my ownership of the house.
Whenever I do something that I think is worthy of being alpha cat, I then rub my face, neck and sometimes armpits on some stationary household item near where I am. This got an immediate reaction from Mao. He came right up and rubbed on the thing that I just claimed as my own. I rubbed again and when he went to rub on it, I scared him away.
After doing this for 2 days, he actually started recognizing me as alpha cat. Truly weird.
I took this a step farther and decided that when he's bad, I need to mark him as my property. You can't imagine how loud Laura laughed when she walked into the sun room to see me rubbing the cat under my armpit. Mao didn't think it was so funny. He kinda ran away to take a bath.
It is a good thing to be king. :D
Love,
Pete
2 comments:
.... we now return to Peter Beers; "The Cat Whisperer". I think I smell a best seller and a hit tv show on one of those woman's cable channels.
I think PETA would put the stops on that show. It isn't that I'm cruel to my cats. Anyone who knows me knows that these fuzzbutts live the good life. I'm just not sure the viewing public is ready for me rubbing my cat in my armpits while he's yowling indignantly.
Pete
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