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RARE PHOTOS: Cat attacks you after seeing a street cat outside its redirected aggression | Rare Historical Photos

One moment your cat is sitting at the window watching the lane below. The next, you reach over to stroke it and it spins around and bites your hand hard enough to draw blood. You didn't provoke it. You didn't even startle it. What just happened has a name, and once you understand the mechanism, the behaviour stops feeling random.

What redirected aggression actually is

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