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Hello! This is a very recent development and we're wondering if she's going through a phase or this is just who she is now.
We've had our kitten for over a month now and she's always been so full of energy. She's coming up on 4 months old and over the past few days, she's become very bitey and scratchy when she's hyper and in a playful mood. We try our best to negate this behaviour by either removing our hands and stopping playing with her, walking away or giving her a chew toy to bite instead. We think she's likely teething as when we first adopted her, she'd only occasionally nip using her front teeth, but now when she bites it's as if she's actually chewing on our fingers with her back teeth, and I read they start to teethe around this age. We did buy her a chew toy for biting/teething but she doesn't like it much, so we may need to look into other toys that satisfy her.
Thankfully, it doesn't seem like she's being mean or really aggressive with this, it's only when she's in a playful mood and it's hard to pet her without her biting us when she's in this mood, but she's totally fine when she's chilled out and sleepy. But it's sadly getting to the point where it's disturbing our sleep as she'll have a burst of energy in the early mornings and sprint around the bed and bite our toes through the covers! I also wanted to mention that since the biting started, her drinking has changed. She'll lap up some water and then make a "sucking" sound afterwards, which she's never done before and I wonder if it's connected if she is teething. I'm hoping that all of this is just teething or a phase she's going through, but I wanted to ask here just in case it could be a bigger problem that we can help with or if we need to take her to the vet.
We've had our kitten for over a month now and she's always been so full of energy. She's coming up on 4 months old and over the past few days, she's become very bitey and scratchy when she's hyper and in a playful mood. We try our best to negate this behaviour by either removing our hands and stopping playing with her, walking away or giving her a chew toy to bite instead. We think she's likely teething as when we first adopted her, she'd only occasionally nip using her front teeth, but now when she bites it's as if she's actually chewing on our fingers with her back teeth, and I read they start to teethe around this age. We did buy her a chew toy for biting/teething but she doesn't like it much, so we may need to look into other toys that satisfy her.
Thankfully, it doesn't seem like she's being mean or really aggressive with this, it's only when she's in a playful mood and it's hard to pet her without her biting us when she's in this mood, but she's totally fine when she's chilled out and sleepy. But it's sadly getting to the point where it's disturbing our sleep as she'll have a burst of energy in the early mornings and sprint around the bed and bite our toes through the covers! I also wanted to mention that since the biting started, her drinking has changed. She'll lap up some water and then make a "sucking" sound afterwards, which she's never done before and I wonder if it's connected if she is teething. I'm hoping that all of this is just teething or a phase she's going through, but I wanted to ask here just in case it could be a bigger problem that we can help with or if we need to take her to the vet.