Breaking Up a Cat Fight

Video Transcript

"Now sometimes in spite of all of your hard work with introducing a new cat into the household slowly and over time, there will still be a fight, so I wanted to give you some tips on how to safely breakup a fight between two cats. First thing is never stick your hands in the way of two cats that are fighting, because they will scratch or bite you if you get in the way. they can't control themselves when they're in the heat of the battle so to speak. So there's a couple of techniques you can use, one is to have a spray bottle handy, it just needs to be filled with water, and you want to have the spray kind of on a stream, and you would direct it right at the cats who are fighting and spray, like that. Most cats hate water, and that will distract them and interrupt them from their fight. Another thing you can do is, if they're really tussling, get a broom, and use your broom to get in between them and swat one of them away. The broom has soft bristles so it won't actually hurt the cats, but you can use it to intercept them, so that you can break up the fight. And the third thing you can do is to create a loud noise. You can put a little jar with some change in it, and you shake it around the cats, an air horn also works very well when you're trying to just make a loud noise to distract the cats and breakup the fight."