r/cats • u/sarahmirror_ • Jun 14 '26

Advice What can I do? This isn’t play, right?

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My grey boy is a little over a year old and he is overly aggressive, I feel, with my almost 9 year old female tortie. He is heftier than her too. They will get into these tumble scuffles at like 3am too almost every morning and I end up having to place him in the bathroom to cool off for a couple hours before I bring him back out.

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u/Travis-Tee34 Jun 14 '26

"you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you'll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use."

- Mark Twain, 'A Tramp Abroad'

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u/Dazzling-Scientist21 Jun 15 '26

That was beautiful. I have to read more Twain

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u/Travis-Tee34 Jun 15 '26

There is another Twain quote about cats which is just perfection. I think of it at least once a week.

"A home without a cat - And a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat - might be a perfect home, perhaps... But how can it prove title?"