Back your ballooning

up with a physical fence, pointing, and
a verbal fence in the form of strong commands like, 'Keep
away from me, stay where you are!' If you make this loud
III!
and aggressive and splay your arms erratically this would be
classed as 'posturing'. Posturing is the art of fighting without
fighting. This is what animals do in nature, generally with
animals of their own species. Rather than fight and kill each
other and thus threaten the survival of their own species, they
posture by making themselves as big and as aggressive as
possible, thus triggering the flight response in their opponent,
defeating them without injury. Watch the cat when he faces
the dog, his back rises, his eyes glare, he hisses aggressively.
He looks ferocious.