{"id":639086,"date":"2009-12-16T05:25:34","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T10:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds2.feedburner.com:\/\/37fc8f07f8aeb101c84884d50c3dd6a1"},"modified":"2009-12-16T05:25:34","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T10:25:34","slug":"why-do-cats-hiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/639086","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Cats Hiss?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cats will hiss (it is generally thought) for one of two reasons, either they feel threatened or they are feeling aggressive or it may be a combination of the two.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blurtit.com\/var\/question\/q\/q3\/q33\/q332\/q3325\/q332574_28783_49_4918504_d034983d2d.jpg?w=780\"\/><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blurtit.com\/css\/common\/cc.png?w=780\" style=\"vertical-align:text-bottom;width:16px;height:16px;border:0;\" title=\"Creative Commons License\"\/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98894271@N00\/\" >TheLawleys<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Often hissing will simply be a way of telling another cat or human etc that the cat is present and is not going to be pushed around.&nbsp;&nbsp;It will often hiss to just register its status and thus try to deter any further activity or aggression from the human or cat to whom the hiss has been directed.<\/p>\n<p>If a cat does hiss at you it is important to avert your gaze from it.&nbsp;&nbsp;If you continue to stare or look at it then it will interpret this as a sign of aggression and continue to hiss and this may escalate into a fully fledged &#8216;cat attack&#8217;.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By looking away you are acknowledging that it has signalled either fear or anger and you are sending it a message that you do not mean any aggression towards it, so hopefully it should stop hissing.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Blurtit\/~4\/d7lM25Qgpik\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cats will hiss (it is generally thought) for one of two reasons, either they feel threatened or they are feeling aggressive or it may be a combination of the two. TheLawleys Often hissing will simply be a way of telling another cat or human etc that the cat is present and is not going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2GfQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}