[header] How to properly deal with an aggressive cat [title] Look for behavioral patterns. [step] To us, cats can appear baffling or unpredictable, whereas in reality we are just poor are reading their body language and understanding what they are trying to tell us. But what we do know is that there are a number of distinct patterns involved with cat aggression. 
These can be broken into a series of situation-oriented categories that are not mutually exclusive. [substeps] Play aggression happens when cats take play too far.