Guard Cats

I've had the privilege of being owned by a lot of cats in my life, and
they all had and have their own wonderful unique personalities.

But *never* before have I had a cat who hangs out in the front bay
window, and then if a truck pulls up near our house, or a person walks
up the sidewalk, *growls*! (Interestingly, if a car pulls up, he does
nothing - it has to be a truck, or someone actually coming up our
path.)

EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)...

Is he Siamese? I've read that they were orginally trained
as temple guardians - maybe he's copying ancestral
behaviour. :-)

Of course, he then turns tail and runs away and hides in another room!

Anyone else see this sort of behaviour?

jmcquown...

Yep! The first time I heard Persia do it, she was curled up on my lap and
then she hissed! She sounded for all the world like a small panther. She
even scared me! She's a watch cat!

Dan M...

Yep. Harri Roadcat does this frequently, and Amelia does sometimes.

All of the kitties take turns in the windows when interesting things are
going on outside. A few months ago two of the four apartments in our
complex became vacant and the landlord took the opportunity to do some
reworking of the two vacant apartments. About a month later the landlord
mentioned that the workers were greatly enjoying watching the kitties
watching them! It took them a couple days to figure out there was more
than one cat in the house, and they had a little contest going to figure
out how many cats there really were. They came close - they thought five.
I guess they didn't look closely enough to tell there are two red tabbys.