Cats and Love: Jealousy

Jealousy

By JLD - 11/10/2010 04:34 - United States

Today, I came home from a four-day trip. Apparently, my cat thought I was gone for good and is now very unhappy that I'm home. I know this because she's been positioning herself between me and my husband all night, and hisses every time I try to touch him. He thinks it's hilarious. FML

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By Anonymous - 14/11/2014 02:14 - United States - Kennesaw

Today, I got home and found my wife cuddling with the dog and our new kitten. Both the cat and my wife hissed at me when I tried to join in. FML

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I recognize that voice

By Ratted - 10/10/2024 05:00 - United States

Today, I secretly took a day off work, since I had to use up my vacation, and wanted a "me day." My wife called, and I was ready to pretend to be at work. Too bad the cat decided to come up behind me and meow loudly, alerting my wife that I was home. She's pissed. FML

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By nosleeptilpissoff - 18/03/2011 15:54 - United States

Today, I have a cat with separation anxiety. By this, I mean whenever I go in another room and shut the door with her outside, she uses her head as a battering ram to try and break down the door. It's fun trying to sleep too. FML

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I HATE YOU HOOMAN

By What? - 21/09/2022 11:00

Today, and for the past few months, my cat has taken to yelling at me whenever I walk into the room he's in. I have no idea what he's so bent out of shape about, and I couldn't even make a reasonable guess as to why. FML

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Telepathy?

By So tired - 24/05/2023 02:00 - United Kingdom

Today, my incredibly needy rescue cat - who knows she doesn't get to go into my bedroom at night - decided that she needed to wail and scratch the bedroom door from midnight until 5 a.m. Now that I'm awake, she's ignoring me because she knows I'm mad at her. FML

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By notevencatnipworks - 27/08/2018 13:00

Today, as every day for the past three weeks, my girlfriend's cat kept us up from 3:30am crying nonstop. We've tried everything, and even exiled my well-behaved cat to keep him company. Now she cries because she feels she's being punished. Starting around 4am. FML

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HUMAN! I NEED ATTENTION!

By Mur - 09/09/2023 22:00

Today, my girlfriend called me four times in a row at work. Worried, I stepped outside and answered the phone. Through tears, she screamed, "It's the cat!" Was he sick or hurt? "NO! He won't stop meowing!" FML

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Sixth sense

By What does she know? - 27/05/2024 15:00 - United States

Today, I've known for a while that my cat can sense when I'm not feeling good, as she gets more clingy than usual. I've been a bit under the weather as of late, not really sick, but just a little off, and she keeps meowing nonstop and refuses to leave me alone for any reason whatsoever. I'm honestly very concerned now. FML

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Getting no pussy love

By Anonymous - 03/08/2020 05:02

Today, since getting the new kitten that only I wanted, it has scratched me and peed on my socks, my side of the bed and my laptop. It loves my husband though, who was against getting a cat at all. FML

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By aherdofpigs - 02/09/2013 19:22 - United States

Today, I'm trapped in my apartment. My new cat won't let me leave. Every time I try, he blocks the door, hisses and tries to savage me. I'm my own cat's bitch. FML

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Monday 11 October 2010 12:05

That's a pretty sour pussy if you ask me!

FFML_314 11

Monday 11 October 2010 12:09

That's because your husband bad talks you to the cat while you're gone. They're plotting. Be careful. WEAR SOCKS!

Comments

frenchboy95 2

Monday 11 October 2010 22:20

I don't know if anyone already said this, but I hope you, OP, realize that cats don't really "think," as most animals don't. They act on instinct and what is comfortable. While you were gone, your husband and your cat must have gotten attached, or at least the cat to your husband. Now, your cat is protective of your husband as he provides a comfortable environment for her. Since you were gone, you must be an unfamiliar scent to the cat because you haven't been around to leave it everywhere. A cat only recognizes people by their scent, like most animals. And they have a very short memory length. So if you're not around regularly, or you haven't been around something that is around them regularly so you leave your scent on it, then the cat will forget you and consider you a threat until it gets used to you.

catatonicsleep 17

Monday 11 October 2010 23:02

I'm not sure about that, I've been on trips for weeks and my cat always recognises me when I come back...

frenchboy95 2

Monday 11 October 2010 23:13

Well, if you left your scent around, then maybe it recognized you. I'm guessing OP's husband cleaned, so her scent was scarce. I'm not sure about that, but I know that the OP's cat is acting the way she is most likely because she doesn't recognize her.

catatonicsleep 17

Monday 11 October 2010 23:33

my mum cleans the house every week, i was gone for 3 she would have washed all traces of me away

TheIrishJaneDoe 8

Tuesday 12 October 2010 0:29

Maybe you're right about the whole scent recognition thing, but the leaving your scent around part is making less sense to me. My families' pets always remember my husband and I as people they like, even though we don't visit often enough to leave our scent around. Maybe OP's cat has a memory problem. =

frenchboy95 2

Tuesday 12 October 2010 3:42

@73 That's possible. Or it could just be that the cat got attached to the husband and now protects him from anything, including people the cat knows.

5t3ff1k4h 44

Tuesday 12 October 2010 6:20

67- She wouldn't have been able to get everything. There's always something you touched (a couch being a good example) that would leave your scent, unless she dry cleaned the couch as well.

catatonicsleep 17

Tuesday 12 October 2010 14:48

so you're suggesting OPs husband dry cleaned all the couches etc? since the argument is that the cat forgot her scent

5t3ff1k4h 44

Monday 18 October 2010 4:57

No. My point was that even though the husband (or your mom) may have cleaned, he/she wouldn't have been able to clean everything at once in the time you (or OP) was gone. I doubt either one of them dry cleaned the couch or anything, they may have just tidied the clutter. The cat wouldn't have forgotten her scent from the cleaning, unless literally everything in the house (doorknobs, clothing, linens, floors, furniture, etc) was cleaned. Wherever you touch, your scent lingers. I wasn't suggesting the husband dry cleaned everything; I was suggesting that he more than likely wouldn't have, therefore the woman's scent was still in the house. It's just not possible to clean literally everything in the house. I don't think the cat forgot the woman's scent at all, rather, I think it may have felt abandoned by her. It's possible the girl was the original owner of the cat, and if she was gone that long, it's also possible it felt abandoned. The husband was there to take care of it, so the cat became attached to him.