Cat Territorial Behavior

The cats are plenty of contradictions they can return to the wild condition after being domesticated. They coexist in free colonies or in savage situation, but they refuse to share a small piece of grass with the cat of the house or to the side or his favorite chair with his brother. They join us while we feed what they like, but they can become affected if there is something better to eat in another place. And others, though they have their own garden, prefer to jump the fence and doing his needs in the other side.

Two key needs
In the life of a cat, the most important needs are the space and the food. Since they preserve the strong instincts of the free hunter, the cats are very sensitive to any thing that could affect both of them. A cat acts principally to dominate the territory that he has chosen (or accepted) because it is a sure source of food. If another cat get to the territory of ours, probably this one will see to him as menaced and, in turn, he will threaten him or, as last resource, he fights to reject him and to preserve this way his peace of spirit. If the food of the house is not very sure, our cat will extend his territory, that is to say, he will go away to any place or will adopt our neighbors.

If the cats were not so adaptable, the presence of domestic animals in the urbanization's would cause an endless series of fights: but if the zone is not overpopulated and the cats are well eating in the houses, most of them  can coexist something pacifically. The cats that can go out of their house are in the habit of conquering a zone around the house and the garden of his owners. They can share it with other cats of the same house and deceitfully with the neighboring cats. There are cats that practice the " usufruct per hours"; a cat can use a certain wall to begin the nap in the morning, whereas other one does it in the evening. The hunter cats are more aggressive in the defense of his territory at the break of day and to get dark, that is when there is more activity of small rodents.