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Dear Sir,

I am at my wit's end with the behaviour of my beautiful speyed Lilac Burmese male, Argie, towards the three piebald cats next door. Each day he goes in to their shed and literally beats them up, draws blood and inflicts wounds, defecating in their beds and ripping their collars off. He is of course a house angel and street devil and all who come to our house, stroke and rub him and think that he is the most delightful and beautiful ( which he is of course) of cats. Our neighbours are threatening to move house or worse still to take drastic action aobut his behaviour and I dread to think what this may entail. If you could please offer me any advice, I would be eternally grateful.

Many thanks,

Kind regards,

Beatrice Aird-O'Hanlon from Delgany, County Wicklow, Ireland.

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Beatrice,

I am afraid there is not much you can do except to keep him indoors!  He will take any opportunity he can to go over and bother the next door cats.  That is just the nature of cats.  Like any bully, I suspect, if one of them would stand up to him, he would immediaelty back down. However, cats find their nitches with respect to cat inter-relationships. and we humans just do not understand the rules!!!!!

So, again, keeping him indoors may be your only option to curb these behaviors.

Best regards... Norm.  

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Norman Auspitz

Expertise

I can answer most non-veterinary questions about cats. My particular expertise is pedigree cats, breeding and showing. However, I am versed in feline behavior, cat breeds and their characteristics, general feline husbandry, and the like.

Experience

I judged for the Canadian Cat Association from 1975 until 1982. I am currently an approved allbreed judge for the Cat Fanciers'' Association (the world''s largets cat registry), and have been judging for them since 1991. I have been breeding pedigreed cats since 1971 and have been exhibiting pedigreed cats in shows since 1970. I obtained my first pedigreed cat in 1970 and have never looked back. In 1971, I obtained my first Abyssinian which has become my primary breed. In addition, I have bred Manx and Persians. Currently, besides the Abyssinians, I am also breeding Maine Coons.


Organizations
Cat Fanciers'' Association, inc. (CFA) and the Manx, Maine Coon, and Abyssinian breed councils. I am currently Abyssinian breed council secretary.

Publications
Cat Fancy Magazine, The Abyssinian Chapter in The Cat Fanciers'' Association Complete Cat Book, and Articles for various editions of The Cat Fanciers'' Association Yearbook

Education/Credentials
I received a B.S. from Drexel University in 1968, a M.Math from University of Waterloo, in 1970, a Ph.D. from University of Waterloo in 1975, and a MBA from McMaster University in 1980. I received my approved allbreed judging status in the Cat Fanciers'' Association in 1999.

Awards and Honors
We have produced a number of Cat Fanciers'' Association (CFA) National winning Abyssinian and Maine Coons. We have produced a number of Abyssinian and Maine Coon Distinguished Merit females (an award for a top producing cat), including the first Distinguished Merit Abyssinian in the red (sorrel) color. I am the CFA Abyssinian breed council secretary and belong and/or hold office in a number of cat clubs. I am also a member of the CFA Judges Association.

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