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Hi everyone,
I am joining what I'm sure is many biting related questions and advice seeking threads on here. I have looked through other threads, google searched, youtubed, but have not found anything that seems to describe our situation. Our cat is around 1 year and 4 months old, and she's lovely in so many ways, but she has developed a strange habit of biting my partner. This really only happens to my partner as I've maybe experienced this 2 times myself, but I have witnessed it. It's hard to pinpoint when it started because it used to happen more rarely, but now it's quite frequent. I'd guess it started around the beginning of this year, but has gotten much more frequent in the past few weeks. What happens is that she will go up to my partner and bite his legs/arms, whatever is in reach. It's not too hard and doesn't usually break skin, but there have been a few times where it's been harder and caused bleeding. Sometimes we can figure out why, like she will tend to do this more if she's hungry, but it also seems to be at random.
For example, earlier today, the three of us were sitting on the couch, and she chose to sit near my partner. After a few minutes she just decided to bite him on the arm. This is no where near feeding time, and he wasn't petting or playing with her. There isn't any other hostility towards him, like hissing, swatting, or anything, in fact we typically assume that he's her favorite because she will usually choose to sit near him.
We don't spray her or punish her because we know that doesn't work, so we usually will say "no" loudly and then get up and leave the room so she knows it's not how to get attention. However, this behavior seems to be getting more frequent, and we're not sure why this is happening and why it's just targeted at him. She did go to the vet in May for an unrelated issue and was given a clean bill of health, but I'm thinking I will take her again if this continues getting worse.
Anyone out there have experience with this or any ideas what is going on or what to do?
Thank you!!
Cat tax included
I am joining what I'm sure is many biting related questions and advice seeking threads on here. I have looked through other threads, google searched, youtubed, but have not found anything that seems to describe our situation. Our cat is around 1 year and 4 months old, and she's lovely in so many ways, but she has developed a strange habit of biting my partner. This really only happens to my partner as I've maybe experienced this 2 times myself, but I have witnessed it. It's hard to pinpoint when it started because it used to happen more rarely, but now it's quite frequent. I'd guess it started around the beginning of this year, but has gotten much more frequent in the past few weeks. What happens is that she will go up to my partner and bite his legs/arms, whatever is in reach. It's not too hard and doesn't usually break skin, but there have been a few times where it's been harder and caused bleeding. Sometimes we can figure out why, like she will tend to do this more if she's hungry, but it also seems to be at random.
For example, earlier today, the three of us were sitting on the couch, and she chose to sit near my partner. After a few minutes she just decided to bite him on the arm. This is no where near feeding time, and he wasn't petting or playing with her. There isn't any other hostility towards him, like hissing, swatting, or anything, in fact we typically assume that he's her favorite because she will usually choose to sit near him.
We don't spray her or punish her because we know that doesn't work, so we usually will say "no" loudly and then get up and leave the room so she knows it's not how to get attention. However, this behavior seems to be getting more frequent, and we're not sure why this is happening and why it's just targeted at him. She did go to the vet in May for an unrelated issue and was given a clean bill of health, but I'm thinking I will take her again if this continues getting worse.
Anyone out there have experience with this or any ideas what is going on or what to do?
Thank you!!
Cat tax included
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