.
Fight or flight
Cornered with no escape
Make or break
Either way he’s done
With a YOWL and a grOWL
They leap into the attack
Never turning their back
All TEETH and CLAWS
Without a pause
Fur flies like large snowflakes
White, bright, like a pillow fight
Twirling, whirling feline dervishes
Rolling over and over
I had to intervene
Between protagonist and antagonist
The former strutted off
Tail in the air
While the latter slunk home
To lick his wounds
No real damage done
.
©Denise G Allen, 17 July 2013 13:50
Adeeyoyo's Blog 
17/07/2013 at 2:58 pm
Hehehe. Cats will be cats. 🙂
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18/07/2013 at 7:41 am
Hahaha, I know just what you mean, AD. Clever comment!
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17/07/2013 at 2:58 pm
So well written I could picture it in my mind… wonderful…
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18/07/2013 at 7:43 am
Ha, I too could picture it, Bulldog… but still, at least they had half an ear… bitches (female dogs, lol) are stone deaf in a fight!
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17/07/2013 at 3:00 pm
glad no damage is done…mine always seems to get into it in the middle of the night…we need a better schedule…smiles.
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18/07/2013 at 7:45 am
Judging by the amount of fur flying around I thought it would be worse than it actually was. Mine, btw, had no marks at all. The other, well… suffice it to say I saw him later in the garden and he looked none the worse for wear.
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17/07/2013 at 3:24 pm
Catfights are always horrible to hear. Glad you intervened.
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18/07/2013 at 7:47 am
Me too, Pussycat. I am used to dog fights, but this was my first experience of a catfight – other than the noise at a distance.
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17/07/2013 at 4:26 pm
They can make such a noise too! I have to close my windows at night because there is a rather large Tom cat that comes to visit here at night,and my little kitty is very scared of him.
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18/07/2013 at 7:49 am
Hope, I trust your little kitty has been spayed… I had one once, only a couple of months old (too young, I thought – ha!). She miscarried and I realised that they mature much sooner than I thought.
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18/07/2013 at 8:37 am
We have him booked to be fixed in two weeks.
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18/07/2013 at 8:53 am
Oh I’m so sorry Hope, I thought he was a her! He’s SO pretty that the Tom hanging around must think so too, lol!
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18/07/2013 at 9:15 am
LOL! My daughter has an old 14 year old female cat. The Tom is either after her or after food 🙂
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17/07/2013 at 4:45 pm
One of the curses of having an outdoor cat, is hearing the sound of a fight, and of course there are other curses, but some blessings as well… No kitty litter boxes..
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18/07/2013 at 7:50 am
I still prefer an outside cat. And I’m sure the cat does too, lol!
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18/07/2013 at 5:44 pm
So true… Ours has spent the entire summer so far outside, except for the 4-5 times it comes in for food..lol She seems to hate the AC and prefers the natural cooling system that nature provides her..
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17/07/2013 at 4:50 pm
Your best strategy is a hosepipe, Denise. Awful things, cat fights.
I once had to separate two warring dogs by grabbing their tails and pulling
them apart. My son-in-law took his dog’s tail and I mine.
Well done, and not a little brave, to intervene.
John
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18/07/2013 at 7:52 am
It would have taken too long though, John. I had nothing at hand to throw either, but my voice did the trick together with hard hand-clapping, thank goodness!
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19/07/2013 at 10:33 am
I’ll remember that, Denise. For my dog I use a tsch – tsch – tsch noise, mimicking the rattle of peas in a tin can, which always gets attention!
Have a good day.
John
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17/07/2013 at 7:00 pm
A cat fight is great to watch
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18/07/2013 at 8:00 am
I can’t believe you said that, Nic. Do you like this?
Cage fight Blood bath by naardeklote
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18/07/2013 at 10:23 pm
Spoilsport! 🙂
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19/07/2013 at 8:07 am
Ha! You guys are all the same, lol! 😀
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19/07/2013 at 2:33 am
That noise they make just before they launch into one another is so bizarre – like a crying human baby. You are brave to intervene!
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19/07/2013 at 8:10 am
Yes, Bb, I think so too. I have heard the sound described as ‘meuling or mewling’ and it does sound like a baby. Not so brave, I was about a foot away and luckily they listened! I can’t imaging they would turn on a person unless one was stupid enough to reach in and try physically to separate them!
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