Attack

I spent some time this evening doing laundry.  The cats were trying to be helpful when I hung clothes, but they were involved in the middle of my trying to hang clothes, and grabbed and clung and otherwise interfered.

Taki, especially, was trying to be helpful.  But she lunged at me, and grabbed at my abdomen with her claws. My howl scared her. I did not mean to scare her.  But her sharp claws did hurt.  And, she caught skin, not laundry.

I love my cats, but sometimes, they are more aggressive than they realize. It is a trade off. Yesterday, inadvertently, I stepped on Haiku's tail. I did not mean to, and I hated that it happened. Sometimes, though a cat is underfoot, and I do not realize it. Which is what happened yesterday.

Mostly, I try to make the household quiet and calm, and a place where the cats do not have to attack or otherwise be aggressive. Sometimes, they are, with each other, but not viciously, just assertively.