What are three differences between a fearful aggressive cat and a confident aggressive cat?

Question

What are three differences between a fearful aggressive cat and a confident aggressive cat?

Answer 1

Body language is one way to tell the difference between fear or anger related aggression.  Their tails and ears indicate how they're feeling.

A confidently aggressive cat will continue to eyeball his rival, whereas a fearful cat will be more likely to look away first.

A frightened cat will usually hiss, but an angry cat will resort to growling or caterwauling.  (Like humans when they're angry, cats' voices get louder and deeper).

The Messybeast web site has a great article on cat body language.

http://www.messybeast.com/cat_talk2.htm

This link has lots of information about the various types of aggression in cats.

http://wizz-catz.co.uk/aggression.html