How Can I Stop My Cats Fighting?

I was thinking that perhaps your cats are only play fighting which is natural behavior for them when they live together.

Mine love to stalk each other, and sometimes hiss and growl, but they never have hurt one another.
I think it's really more upsetting to us than to them.

If your living quarters are over-crowded, that is very stressful to cats as they tend to be rather solitary creatures for the most part.

I wouldn't worry about it if no-one is being hurt or acting fearful all the time.

I was told by a vet a long time ago that cats work things out by themselves.

When you see your cats "fighting", it may look that way but that is the way they play.

Keep your cats' claws trimmed, so they don't damage the other cat's eyes.

I'd put them in separate rooms or tell them "no" in a stern voice when they start to fight.

Try and shout at the cats and when they run away, that means it's over - or stamp one of your feet, not on the cat's tail but on the floor. I hope this helps!

If the cats are screaming, growling and hissing multiple times during the fight or right before the fight, it is going to be a serious fight and one of them could be harmed.

DO NOT try to separate them and DO NOT hit the cats in any way, ever.

Instead, make a loud noise, yell, pound your fist on a counter top but NEVER try to separate seriously fighting cats, and never hit them!

You can also try spraying them with water from a water bottle.

If they are just play fighting, there will not be growling or hissing or screaming involved. Just some meowing that sounds a bit aggressive.

We think our cats are fighting because we have put them on a limited diet. What happens is this:

They try to wake us up for food at between 5-6 a.m.  We spray them with water to get them to go away and stop walking on our heads. 

Their next tactic is to then begin fighting, which takes place in another room and involves a lot of growling, hissing, attacking (they are both without front claws, but have back claws), that is violent enough that we have to get out of bed to stop the fighting by, again, spraying them with water. 

At this point, they have successfully gotten us out of bed and then it just seems silly not to just feed them and go back to bed to get them to stop.
 
We live in a studio apartment, so shutting the door and trying to ignore them is not an option.

I found the best way to stop my 4 cats from fighting was to separate their food bowls and litter trays and when they do look like they are starting to fight I will get a toy out or something for them to play with to try and get them to think about something else.

Then in a little while, they all calm down but you should never try and get in the middle of them when they are fighting because you will be the one who gets hurt.

Just shout as loud as you can and make a big bang. This normally works well.

If one of them is scared of another, I just spend a bit of time with the one who is scared and let her know that everything is going to be ok.

My youngest cat is blind and she gets scared a lot so the best thing to do is just talk to her like she was a kid and let her know it will be ok.

Hi

If you see two cats fighting all you need to do is shout very loud and piercing and they will stop. (There may be hissing but this is normal.)

This has worked many times on my cats.

If one of the cats is hiding in a corner and moaning, just give them some water, food and stroke them.

Hope this helps you

Adam (owner of three cats)

If one is an adult and the other is a baby, keep one outside and one in.
Keep their food apart.

I live in a household with 4 cats, and was recommended a plug in called Felliway for cats. It calms them down, and is also used in zoos, and has had very good results.

Some vets sell it, or you can buy from link below!

www.petremedies.co.uk

Good luck!