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SOS to cat behaviorists out there! My friend has a serious issue that we are trying to solve:

3 cats—brothers—born 2008. Never separated. Loving, cuddly, sleep curled together UNTIL early this spring one day all of them were sitting in peace before an open window and suddenly and completely went Bill the Cat Batshit and viciously started all out screaming catfight.  They were separated for 2 wks at recommendation of vet and seemed to forget about it, resumed loving brotherly behavior but THEN 3 mos later 2 were sitting in front of window and again Total Feline Warfare—clawing, screeching, and spraying.  This time it took 3 mos of separation plus application of feline pheromone diffusers in 3^rd month. September and October civil relations resumed with cuddly cosleeping.  Yesterday NO window open. Total screeching warfare with clawing and spraying. All have been neutered since kittenhood.

Have any of you guys any insights? WTF is going on? How can it be prevented or stopped?  Massive spraying catfights which taint the environment are not tolerable as an ongoing situation.  They also go off on humans trying to intervene.

The Library Society of the World is putting together an online and print-on-demand anthology of weblog posts, essays, articles, and other material entitled Librarianship by Walking Around, patterned after the successful Hacking the Academy project.

Librarianship doesn’t just happen in the library! Librarianship happens wherever information exchange happens—that is, just about everywhere. Librarianship by Walking Around celebrates librarians who leave their libraries and their comfort zones to ply the library trade.

Submit your work or suggest another’s by commenting here, tweeting the link with the hashtag #libwalk, or posting to the Library Society of the World’s FriendFeed group by Friday, October 21. Themes may include (but are not limited to):

• Serendipitous encounters (and how to engineer them)
• Joining patron communities
• Walking around online
• Walking around non-library literature and non-library conferences
• Embedded librarianship (in all its forms)

All on-topic submissions will appear on the project’s web page. The LSW will select from these for the anthology, expected to be available in free .epub and low-cost print-on-demand versions. All authors whose pieces are chosen for the anthology will be asked to license the piece as CC-BY. Authors unwilling to do so will not appear in the anthology.

Walk around the information world with us!