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I'm going to make this bullet pointed. If you'd like more information. Ask away.
• This is my first cat.
• I watched like hours of jackson galaxy before getting him
• I have read about cats.
• I have taken him to the vet for this specific reason this past month.
• The vet said he's fine.
• The vet said it may be territorial and getting a second cat could be either positive or really really negative and so wait until we are in a house.
• We live in a 1 bedroom apartment. He only has access to the living room, kitchen and dining room. Bathroom and Bedroom are always closed. He does not sleep with us.
• He has every toy possible (literally, he owns half the living room). We recently removed all catnip toys to see if that would improve his behavior.
• He is almost bipolar in behaviour. He has 2 great weeks and 2 really bad weeks.
• We could play with him more but we do play with him everyday.
• We clean his litter box morning and night
• His water is in the kitchen, his food in the living room, and his litter box is in the kitchen but because it's a 700 sq ft apartment. It's basically the living room.
• He has a cat tree and the window open to him.
• He knows sit, shake, high five, stand, and meow on command. (we practice this almost daily)
• We save boxes and cut holes in the them everytime we get a new box and hide things and have a general over-all enrichment type thing going on.
• He was neutered at 12 weeks.
• Here's what he just did to me | We're sitting down and I'm typing an email on my laptop. I see him out of the corner of my eye and I can tell he's got a look on his face. That "ears sideways - I'm not playing - I'm not hunting - I'm annoyed" look. Then he stiff leg walks over to me and chomps my arm hard - coils back and is like ready to charge me again and then turns and lays down.
• He will hide and pounce at our feet and nibble our ankles to get us to play. But these are different. These are like "You're at my level, you're in my territory and I don't like you and I'm going to tell you that." He's made me cry one of the times because of how badly he bit my arm and made it bleed.
• My husband doesn't like having this jackyl and hyde cat and doesn't like that he attacks me. The cat prefers my husband. I think I try to force cuddles and pets and so he tolerates me. But he always chooses to lay by us or touching us. So I know he likes us. and when we go to bed at night he meows these pitful lonely meows until we come out and rub his ears and neck.
• These bites are not over-stimulation from petting bites. I have not touched him, looked at him. He was not in the middle of zoomie. He was not riled up. He just bites me.
Help.... please.
• Oh and the vet said he's only a smidge overweight. we are having trouble getting his weight down. We feed him Nulo and feed him a measuring cup every morning and evening at exactly the same time and what the bag says for a 14lb cat.
However. It's a good solid 16 lbs.
• This is my first cat.
• I watched like hours of jackson galaxy before getting him
• I have read about cats.
• I have taken him to the vet for this specific reason this past month.
• The vet said he's fine.
• The vet said it may be territorial and getting a second cat could be either positive or really really negative and so wait until we are in a house.
• We live in a 1 bedroom apartment. He only has access to the living room, kitchen and dining room. Bathroom and Bedroom are always closed. He does not sleep with us.
• He has every toy possible (literally, he owns half the living room). We recently removed all catnip toys to see if that would improve his behavior.
• He is almost bipolar in behaviour. He has 2 great weeks and 2 really bad weeks.
• We could play with him more but we do play with him everyday.
• We clean his litter box morning and night
• His water is in the kitchen, his food in the living room, and his litter box is in the kitchen but because it's a 700 sq ft apartment. It's basically the living room.
• He has a cat tree and the window open to him.
• He knows sit, shake, high five, stand, and meow on command. (we practice this almost daily)
• We save boxes and cut holes in the them everytime we get a new box and hide things and have a general over-all enrichment type thing going on.
• He was neutered at 12 weeks.
• Here's what he just did to me | We're sitting down and I'm typing an email on my laptop. I see him out of the corner of my eye and I can tell he's got a look on his face. That "ears sideways - I'm not playing - I'm not hunting - I'm annoyed" look. Then he stiff leg walks over to me and chomps my arm hard - coils back and is like ready to charge me again and then turns and lays down.
• He will hide and pounce at our feet and nibble our ankles to get us to play. But these are different. These are like "You're at my level, you're in my territory and I don't like you and I'm going to tell you that." He's made me cry one of the times because of how badly he bit my arm and made it bleed.
• My husband doesn't like having this jackyl and hyde cat and doesn't like that he attacks me. The cat prefers my husband. I think I try to force cuddles and pets and so he tolerates me. But he always chooses to lay by us or touching us. So I know he likes us. and when we go to bed at night he meows these pitful lonely meows until we come out and rub his ears and neck.
• These bites are not over-stimulation from petting bites. I have not touched him, looked at him. He was not in the middle of zoomie. He was not riled up. He just bites me.
Help.... please.
• Oh and the vet said he's only a smidge overweight. we are having trouble getting his weight down. We feed him Nulo and feed him a measuring cup every morning and evening at exactly the same time and what the bag says for a 14lb cat.
However. It's a good solid 16 lbs.
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