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I feel the need to make a new thread because this problem has gotten worse, and I want to add more details without having to reply to my old thread. I hope this is okay.
As some of you know I have an 8-9 month old cat named Phoenix, I got him in late January and he was fixed March 29th.
When I first got him he was very sweet and cuddly, liked being on my lap, never bit.......didn't even nip (that I remember). Now, he's kind of a complete nightmare. He bites me nonstop. I can't have any interaction with him without him biting me. He literally gnaws on me. My hands, my wrists, my arms, elbows, legs, feet, he will bite my NECK AND FACE. He's bitten my face a couple times and refused to let go despite my screaming. He can't even sleep in the same bed as me anymore. I have to sleep with the door shut. Also, when I'm downstairs and he's down there and I walk up the stairs, he will latch onto my legs like a tree trunk and won't let go. I have to shake him off.
I don't know what is causing this behavior. He rarely bites my husband. In fact he purrs when my husband comes in the room and my husband can pet him fine and the cat even jumps on his shoulders and he walks around for a bit. The rare times Phoenix has ever went on my shoulders, it ended with him biting me in the face and arm. But pretty much Phoenix ignores both of us all day, doesn't really care if either of us are in the room. He never comes up to us for affection and the rare times I pet him without him biting, he just lays there and doesn't move a muscle. Doesn't purr, ect.......Only time he purrs with me is when I wake up in the morning and he starts gnawing on me.
I really cannot take this biting anymore. I have REALLY thin/pale skin. Each day it's like he's biting harder and harder. I have more and more welts on me.
I've tried literally everything. I play with him every day with wand toys, but that just distracts him, it doesn't stop him from biting me later on.
I've scruffed him, firm NO, tapped his nose, flicked his ear, HISSED, clapped, screamed, sprayed him with a water bottle, I've even stuck my finger down his throat multiple times because I read that that's how you train kittens not to bite, that it triggers their gag reflex and they won't bite you again, but of course it does not bother Phoenix. I even put some hot sauce on my hands to deter him and it didn't bother him. Only way to make him "stop" is for me to leave the room. I also hand feed him treats! He isn't scared of hands. He will let me pick him up and he lets me clip his nails (sometimes he bites but not all).
I'm at my wits end with this. I can't interact with my cat without him biting, so the only thing I can do all day is play with the wand toys then leave the room.
I've asked friends, family, nobody has any real advice for me. They all tell me things I've done before. He's been to the vet twice since I've had him, and the vet said he is fine and healthy. So I really don't know what to do anymore.
As some of you know I have an 8-9 month old cat named Phoenix, I got him in late January and he was fixed March 29th.
When I first got him he was very sweet and cuddly, liked being on my lap, never bit.......didn't even nip (that I remember). Now, he's kind of a complete nightmare. He bites me nonstop. I can't have any interaction with him without him biting me. He literally gnaws on me. My hands, my wrists, my arms, elbows, legs, feet, he will bite my NECK AND FACE. He's bitten my face a couple times and refused to let go despite my screaming. He can't even sleep in the same bed as me anymore. I have to sleep with the door shut. Also, when I'm downstairs and he's down there and I walk up the stairs, he will latch onto my legs like a tree trunk and won't let go. I have to shake him off.
I don't know what is causing this behavior. He rarely bites my husband. In fact he purrs when my husband comes in the room and my husband can pet him fine and the cat even jumps on his shoulders and he walks around for a bit. The rare times Phoenix has ever went on my shoulders, it ended with him biting me in the face and arm. But pretty much Phoenix ignores both of us all day, doesn't really care if either of us are in the room. He never comes up to us for affection and the rare times I pet him without him biting, he just lays there and doesn't move a muscle. Doesn't purr, ect.......Only time he purrs with me is when I wake up in the morning and he starts gnawing on me.
I really cannot take this biting anymore. I have REALLY thin/pale skin. Each day it's like he's biting harder and harder. I have more and more welts on me.
I've tried literally everything. I play with him every day with wand toys, but that just distracts him, it doesn't stop him from biting me later on.
I've scruffed him, firm NO, tapped his nose, flicked his ear, HISSED, clapped, screamed, sprayed him with a water bottle, I've even stuck my finger down his throat multiple times because I read that that's how you train kittens not to bite, that it triggers their gag reflex and they won't bite you again, but of course it does not bother Phoenix. I even put some hot sauce on my hands to deter him and it didn't bother him. Only way to make him "stop" is for me to leave the room. I also hand feed him treats! He isn't scared of hands. He will let me pick him up and he lets me clip his nails (sometimes he bites but not all).
I'm at my wits end with this. I can't interact with my cat without him biting, so the only thing I can do all day is play with the wand toys then leave the room.
I've asked friends, family, nobody has any real advice for me. They all tell me things I've done before. He's been to the vet twice since I've had him, and the vet said he is fine and healthy. So I really don't know what to do anymore.
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and he wants to play rough. I really can't afford another cat right now though.
