Distressing cat behavior

[Anonymous]

I have 2 cats which I adopted in October. they are about 2 yrs old and 3 yrs old, come from the same family group, and have pretty much always behaved affectionately towards each other, like a bonded pair.

Recently, a neighborhood cat has been coming to our house, sits outside our window, and peers inside at them. (This has happened twice so far that I am aware of.). This other cat is an indoor/outdoor cat or outdoor only cat, I don’t know. My cats are kept indoors only. This other cat just sits and looks inside while my cats have complete freak outs inside- howling, hissing, puffing their tails out- all that. The outdoor cat just sits there, completely unperturbed and unmoving until I scare it away, which takes some effort.

Afterwards, my cats turn on each other and howl, hiss, and fight with each other like they hate each other or they think the other is an intruder. They are completely triggered. Now going on second day of this behavior.

What is happening here?!

[Anonymous]

Can't you just put the blinds or curtains down and avoid this whole debacle?

[Anonymous]

They go behind the blinds. Also, my house has many floor to ceiling windows and closing everything up more than I already do is not an accommodation I am willing to make for them.

[Anonymous]

Go out there and shoo the cat away, then.

[Anonymous]

You need to block the window with cardboard or furniture or something. Seriously. There extremely stressful for your cats.

[Anonymous]

Motion activated sprinkler outside, like for deer

[Anonymous]

Great idea, I’ll cardboard up my many then install a sprinkler system.

I believe this is something called redirected aggression. Figured it out dcum, but thanks for the snarky input, as usual.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Great idea, I’ll cardboard up my many then install a sprinkler system.

I believe this is something called redirected aggression. Figured it out dcum, but thanks for the snarky input, as usual.

Well when you're trying to be an ass and nix every idea that people trying to help you have, you get snark. I feel bad for your cats.

[Anonymous]

Get the outdoor cat away from the house.
We had a male and female (both neutered/spayed) and a neighbor cat used to come sit on the porch and our female would sit looking at him. The shrieks of anguish from our male were heartrending.

[Anonymous]

Our cat did this when the neighborhood stray decided the porch was his territory. It took a while, but we got him to move on. In the mean time we blocked our cat's view of him.

[Anonymous]

Shoo the cat away.

[Anonymous]

Eh, it’s good entertainment for your cats, no?