Feline military alliance??

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A local ginger tomcat has been visiting my home quite regularly recently. While he was curled up on the settee relaxing, we heard the sound of another cat from somewhere outside - it was just one brief yell, the kind of noise they make when they get trodden on or when they have a fight and one of them bites the other a little too hard - the equivalent of the human "OUCH!!"

Nothing unusual about that, but Ginger took it very seriously - he leapt to his feet, scrambled furiously at the door to be let out, and when I opened it, he went belting off in what I presume was the direction of the screech. I would have followed to see what the fuss was about, but the high walls and boundaries would have made that difficult for a human.

So I've been wondering why he reacted like that - I know there's another local cat who spends a fair bit of time with him, and I thought maybe they've got some kind of mutual defense agreement.......the other cat seems to have a deep distrust of humans, and won't normally even approach my door, but some time ago when young Ginger first visited my house, this other one actually followed him in after a few minutes, and I always figured that he might have done that in order to keep an eye on him and make sure he was safe. There's no evidence that it was the same cat who yelled out last night, but there are only two other cats living in the area as far as I know, and they're very rarely seen.

Can anybody enlighten me as to what might be going on? I've kept cats before but never noticed one do anything like that before.

cats can have social structures.

maybe the cat was interested/surprised and interested

Yeah, they can do stuff like that.

Could have been simply curiosity, I guess......but it was the sheer urgency of his response that floored me. He's not normally in a hurry to do anything.

Anyway, whatever the military situation, both he and his friend appear to be unharmed. His chum paid us a brief unexpected visit last night. It's strange, I've never seen them closer than about 3 feet from each other, but they seem very connected. The friend has only been in my house twice, and clearly feels very nervous about it, but seems prepared to take the risk very occasionally if Ginger's in the house.

As for Ginger, he's more like a dog than a cat in some ways - he just seems to be around for the company, it's certainly not food. Definitely the most social cat I've known. Purrs like a motorboat all the time he's in the house.

What ?? You've never heard of the Russian Blue rebellion ????????????

No I haven't - tell on, Professor! Hang on, it wasn't a Disney film was it?