My Cat is Afraid of a Cow

[captainsousie]

So, I took my cat to my parent's place so I could help out. He seemed to think that he was at a resort because they have a nice sun room that he occpies with lots of windows to watch birds and other wildlife. Then, they brought in a cow to eat down the grasses. He went from happy resort to hiding under anything he can. He looks out the window now to make sure that the cow isn't going to attack. The hazards of pet ownership.

 

[warren99]

My two cats are afraid of doorbells. It all started several years ago when we adopted a feral cat, Sidney, who was afraid of almost everything except food. He would go under a bed or couch whenever the doorbell rang. He taught our other cat, Tess (whom I affectionately nicknamed "Pavlov's Cat"). to do the same thing. Well, after Sidney died, we adopted two kittens from the same litter, the two depicted in my avatar, and sure enough, Tess instilled in them the fear of the ominous doorbell. Go figure!

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

My sister’s greyhound is deathly afraid of he sees when out for walks. Sees one, walk is over!

 

[CoffeeAndBourbon]

My sister’s greyhound is deathly afraid of he sees when out for walks. Sees one, walk is over!

Our Greyhound is afraid of not having a couch...

 

[MattRVA]

My lab won’t budge if there is a large bird in the vicinity. Vultures are the worst!

 

[orlandofurioso]

So am I ; afraid of wild cattle that is.

 

[kcghost]

Cats are so damn weird. The two I have hated to be held.

 

[canucklehead]

Sparrows, chickadees, bluejays, magpies, and even squirrels, can eat sunflower seeds out of our backyard feeder and my dog Bruce will ignore them, but he will not allow a crow to land in his yard, at all.

 

[trudger]

Just need to explain to your cat how dumb cows are.

 

[captainsousie]

Just need to explain to your cat how dumb cows are.

I tried to explain he had eaten cow before but he wasn't buying it.

 

[anotherbob]

my first cat would chase squirels through the trees at breakneck speeds and with such agility and grace... Then when he caught it or it got away he'd suddenly freak out and have to be coaxed out of the tree. Like buddy you leaped and ran with zero problems and now you realize where you are?
One morning I got up and my cat was freaked out I had no clue why.... When I left to go to work I saw that there were so many deer prints outside the front window....

 

[orlandofurioso]

My first cat Boris was seventeen when he still ambushed rather large dogs by jumping them from the second floor balcony ! The dogs freaked out totally and Boris left us in awe.

 

[orlandofurioso]

my first cat would chase squirels through the trees at breakneck speeds and with such agility and grace... Then when he caught it or it got away he'd suddenly freak out and have to be coaxed out of the tree. Like buddy you leaped and ran with zero problems and now you realize where you are?
One morning I got up and my cat was freaked out I had no clue why.... When I left to go to work I saw that there were so many deer prints outside the front window....

First paragraph; apart from chasing the rodents this is the story of my life ....

 

[mso489]

No two cats are alike. I had an all-black female who had high-beam eyes. Usually she looked quite sweet, but if another cat or other animal came in the yard she could run them off even through the window with her high beam glare.

She wasn't a particularly large cat, but seeing the expression on her face, I could see how even larger animals might figure it was time to move along.

A little tuxedo cat my wife had on Long Island that later moved down to N.C. with us would stalk deer. She also stalked a very large guinea hen. Finally the bird stood up with a disgusted look and stood her down, but she still thought she was the biggest living thing in the county.

 

[captainsousie]

Well, they moved the cow last night. My cat can still seem him but is a lot less worried now that the pen is farther away from the house. He still watches her and his tail goes crazy when he does but he's relaxed a lot. Funny enough, the cow likes me now and wants me to scratch her head and licks me whenever she gets the chance. She likes treats as much as my cat.

 

[captainsousie]

No two cats are alike. I had an all-black female who had high-beam eyes. Usually she looked quite sweet, but if another cat or other animal came in the yard she could run them off even through the window with her high beam glare.

She wasn't a particularly large cat, but seeing the expression on her face, I could see how even larger animals might figure it was time to move along.

A little tuxedo cat my wife had on Long Island that later moved down to N.C. with us would stalk deer. She also stalked a very large guinea hen. Finally the bird stood up with a disgusted look and stood her down, but she still thought she was the biggest living thing in the county.

You're right about cats all being different. I had one cat (siamese lynx) who had some procedures done and had to have her belly shaved. With the way she sat, one day I pointed to her belly and said "little pink tum-tum" as a joke. To her dying day, if you said those words, she would growl and get pissed off for the next several minutes. I also had a blind, toothless, half-deaf former street cat who loved everyone. When a friend brought her kid over, he loved to sit with the cat. One day I came in where they were sitting together and he said "I don't think he knows I'm here. Every time I try to move or get up he digs in his claws." I had to resist laughing and let the kid know that he sure did know you were there but he didn't want you to leave.

 

[JOHN72]

I love cows. And I'm not a cat. What's the problem?

 

[mso489]

Years ago we had a doorbell curious cat. One time she went into the attic and we were afraid she'd get down into the walls and need rescuing, but my wife rang the front doorbell, and down came the cat to see who was coming to visit her.

 

[georged]

I can't believe you are blaming the cat, after all those years you chased it around your house with a fly swatter while wearing that latex cow head you love so much.

Like, really? What did you expect once it saw a REAL cow?

 

[AJL67]

So, I took my cat to my parent's place so I could help out. He seemed to think that he was at a resort because they have a nice sun room that he occpies with lots of windows to watch birds and other wildlife. Then, they brought in a cow to eat down the grasses. He went from happy resort to hiding under anything he can. He looks out the window now to make sure that the cow isn't going to attack. The hazards of pet ownership.

If your cat knew where milk / cream / ice cream / whipped cream came from it might feel differently. For ice cream you just keep the cow in the freezer for whipped cream you feed it some sugar and strap it in the paint can shaker, pretty sure that's how that works.

A study in 2019 pretty much says it all..
Seven percent thought chocolate milk only comes from brown cows. That adds up to about 16.4 million people, more than the population of Ohio. The Washington Post linked the study to past studies that consistently show many Americans have no idea where their food comes from.