My Cat Bites All The Time!!!-Help Please!

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13 September, 2007 at 7:19 pm #10930

Iloveboots838
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My cat bites me all the time and I pay a LOT of attention to him but he just bites me and my mom a lot, like last night I went to go to the bathroom but it took me 15 minutes because Boots would be meowing and if I move he would want to hurt me and and bite me

Why is he doing this to me?

13 September, 2007 at 7:54 pm #58123

Caddycat
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How old was Boots when you got him? There has to be some kind of history of rough “play” in his background to make him think it’s okay to bite. It’s hard to say. I’m not sure if I’m the one to tell you how to break him of the habit. I believe that cats that bite are not bad cats, they were just taught bad habits. Try this link. It may help.

http://www.catchannel.com/search.aspx?q=Biting

13 September, 2007 at 7:57 pm #58124

MadcatwomanintheUK
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Hi I Love Boots – is your cat a youngster? It sounds like attention seeking. I’m no expert, but remember some advice someone else gave on a similar topic before we had this forum set up.

Cats hate being ignored. When Boots does this, say “NO” in a stern voice, and then completely ignore him for a few minutes (that’s a long time for a cat!. Slowly he should start to get the message that this behaviour is unacceptable.

I think I’ve remembered this advice right – I’m sorry I can’t credit the original agony aunt, perhaps they’ll comment below and help out. Good luck!

13 September, 2007 at 8:37 pm #58125

liz mom of 4
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Sometimes you just need to thump him on the nose. My cat Lion was always biting me and I would just thump him gently on the nose and say no biting. Now when he tries to bite all I have to do is say no biting.

Ignoring them works wonders too.

13 September, 2007 at 11:19 pm #58126

Iloveboots838
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Hey Thanks For some of your comments soo far the qustion you have benn asking was “how old is he?” well Boots is 3 but we gottne him when he was 6 months old

14 September, 2007 at 1:13 am #58127

anncetera2
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Is Boots declawed?

Do you spend time playing with Boots, or otherwise pay attention to him?

14 September, 2007 at 9:19 pm #58128

Iloveboots838
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No boots is not declawed because i dont have enough money and yes he gets attention 24-7!!

15 September, 2007 at 8:49 pm #58129

miu
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http://cats.about.com/cs/behavioralissues/a/bite_scrat.htm

http://perfectpaws.com/agg.html

+ ‘read more’ links

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qit3ALTelOo&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcats%2Eabout%2Ecom%2Fod%2Fcatvideos%2Fyoutube%2Fmeankitty%2Ehtm 🙂

15 September, 2007 at 11:06 pm #58130

Iloveboots838
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Thanks for the links Miu!

26 September, 2007 at 8:57 pm #58131

TheKnittingNinja
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try useing bitter apple spray, they usually don’t like the taste. I trained my cat not to bite with it. I would spray it on my hand and let him bite only where I sprayed it and after a while he stopped biteing.

2 October, 2007 at 1:10 am #58132

carlyqtie
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Is he a kitten? Or a cat? If he is a kitten then he is probably teething!!!!!
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