"Big Chicken"

[KWestVA]

FWIW, my girls do this too, although with them, it seems more like a stretch and flap for a bit of exercise. This is separate from when they (very rarely) flap AT another girl or the cat.

In all seriousness though, my previous cats were raised by dogs and thought they were dogs. How does your cat get on with the chickens?

 

[Mother of Chaos]

In all seriousness though, my previous cats were raised by dogs and thought they were dogs. How does your cat get on with the chickens?

She was way too intrigued by them when we first got them as pullets (7-8 weeks old) and kept stalking them outside their chicken fence, making tough girl swipes at them. Now that they're about triple her size, she still occasionally postures at them, but when she finds herself on the chicken side of the fence, she very obviously tries to be invisible with a slightly-panicked expression on her face.

I once found her circled by all five of them looking at her with intrigued expressions, beaks at the ready. Once I rescued her, she shot back in the house and didn't go back out for the rest of the day.

 

[KWestVA]

She was way too intrigued by them when we first got them as pullets (7-8 weeks old) and kept stalking them outside their chicken fence, making tough girl swipes at them. Now that they're about triple her size, she still occasionally postures at them, but when she finds herself on the chicken side of the fence, she very obviously tries to be invisible with a slightly-panicked expression on her face.

I once found her circled by all five of them looking at her with intrigued expressions, beaks at the ready. Once I rescued her, she shot back in the house and didn't go back out for the rest of the day.

My dog Ginger also had to go through the five stages of chicken acceptance.