Kitty Fight!

My husband says that last night Khan was in the living room wailing on Truffle (as much as a toothless, declawed, 12-year old brain-damaged cat can "wail.") Truffle didn't seem to be bothered by it, and hardly fought back. But it was notable because Khan doesn't usually pick fights with anybody. It's hard to tell whether he had a genuine beef with Truff or if he was trying to play. Since I didn't observe it, I can't tell you what the body language was. In any case, Khan's notions of cat behavior are so off-kilter that you can't always tell from his body language what he intends. From what my husband says, they were fine with each other a couple of minutes later, so chances are that Khan was attempting to play the way he sees the other cats do it, and Truffle was just confused and didn't know what to do! In the last month or two I've seen Khan starting to mimic some of the habits of the other cats--laying on freshly folded piles of laundry for instance--that he never did before since he came to us in August 06. (I'm so proud of him!). It's progress. I'd really like to see one of the "fights," though.