Conflict Resolution Lesson: Recognize Redirected Aggression

If you look carefully, you can learn lessons from many everyday events. Yesterday, my daughter, Alexandra, showed one of our cats, Merlin, in our county 4-H fair. Generally, Merlin is the cat you see in the picture above. He lounges on our deck. He sleeps on the steps. He stays with us in the yard. He insists that we pet him when we are in the garage. He is a really friendly cat. At the fair, he was in a cage in a hot building surrounded by other cats, people he did not know, and smells he did... [Read more]