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I'd like to think I'm an experienced cat owner and when we found poor Spaska at barely 3 weeks old, maybe less she was on the verge of death.
She quickly sprung back and proved to be the most difficult, mischievous kitten I've ever owned, so much so that I simply had to stop working for almost the first 6 months of her life so I could keep her entertained as she'd harass the other cats and be incredibly active, she needed 6 hours of actual active playtime per day in order to not utterly destroy the other cats.
She was never aggressive tho, just extremely playful.
I made sure that form the very beginning she learns that hands re not play things, I did everything right as far as teaching her not to use her claws on me and not to bite. She quickly took to not using claws, but even a year and a half later, she simply can not stop biting.
As soon as you touch her, her first interaction is to bite, it's gentle but her teeth and bite are much stronger than that of a persian which I'm used to and you legit can't even pick her up without her trying to bite all while showing no aggression in the process.
She shows affection through biting, interacts through biting, everything really.
Casper, my big white persian took her under his wing when she was little but he never taught her not to bite, so to this day she bites him all the time and he just calmly wobbles away where as the girls hiss at her or in Mila's case throw a hissy screamy fit.
They all get along well in general, but Spaska's biting is a rather big annoyance.
It's one thing for a cat to bite out of the blue when overstimulated/overwhelemed and another to do this as soon as you touch her.
She is loving, affectionate, she doesn't leave our side and genuinely enjoys our family both the cats and people.
We've gotten used to her biting habits and know how to interact with her.
Interestingly enough, when she is scared or confused she doesn't bite, like at the vets or when a new person comes into the house, when the vacuum is on and so on. So the vets are often like "see? she doesn't bite, she is docile" yeah because you're a stranger, she bites from affection.
Also due to COVID and us still not gathering in closed spaces back in 2021 when we found her, she hasn't been properly socialized with people outside the family unlike my persians so she avoids guests now, also due to being scared of them she never bites around guests lol
I've deducted that she has single kitten syndrome I could be wrong.
She calmed down a great deal after she turned one year, she is relatively calm now in terms of her behavior tho she is still far more active than any cat I've ever owned, but her biting habits haven't changed a bit, we're just used to them.
She is aggressive when playing, but not the hissing growling towards the other cats kind of aggressive.
for example NEVER give her a stuffed animal to play fight with because as soon as she is done play fighting with a stuffed toy, she instantly goes for the nearest cat and grabs them by the neck, pins them down and presses very hard on the cat's neck immobilizing them completely.
She is small, but heavier than the persians now, Casper is 300g heavier than her I believe and he is the biggest, so it's very easy for her to completely dominate all 3, even Casper because she is much stronger than he is.
Fortunately if they hiss at her she backs down, but she can be dangers in that she has zero control of her bite strength and she did make Mila, the mom Persian faint twice back in 2021 by grabbing her by the neck and biting too hard and holding onto her for too long.
She quickly sprung back and proved to be the most difficult, mischievous kitten I've ever owned, so much so that I simply had to stop working for almost the first 6 months of her life so I could keep her entertained as she'd harass the other cats and be incredibly active, she needed 6 hours of actual active playtime per day in order to not utterly destroy the other cats.
She was never aggressive tho, just extremely playful.
I made sure that form the very beginning she learns that hands re not play things, I did everything right as far as teaching her not to use her claws on me and not to bite. She quickly took to not using claws, but even a year and a half later, she simply can not stop biting.
As soon as you touch her, her first interaction is to bite, it's gentle but her teeth and bite are much stronger than that of a persian which I'm used to and you legit can't even pick her up without her trying to bite all while showing no aggression in the process.
She shows affection through biting, interacts through biting, everything really.
Casper, my big white persian took her under his wing when she was little but he never taught her not to bite, so to this day she bites him all the time and he just calmly wobbles away where as the girls hiss at her or in Mila's case throw a hissy screamy fit.
They all get along well in general, but Spaska's biting is a rather big annoyance.
It's one thing for a cat to bite out of the blue when overstimulated/overwhelemed and another to do this as soon as you touch her.
She is loving, affectionate, she doesn't leave our side and genuinely enjoys our family both the cats and people.
We've gotten used to her biting habits and know how to interact with her.
Interestingly enough, when she is scared or confused she doesn't bite, like at the vets or when a new person comes into the house, when the vacuum is on and so on. So the vets are often like "see? she doesn't bite, she is docile" yeah because you're a stranger, she bites from affection.
Also due to COVID and us still not gathering in closed spaces back in 2021 when we found her, she hasn't been properly socialized with people outside the family unlike my persians so she avoids guests now, also due to being scared of them she never bites around guests lol
I've deducted that she has single kitten syndrome I could be wrong.
She calmed down a great deal after she turned one year, she is relatively calm now in terms of her behavior tho she is still far more active than any cat I've ever owned, but her biting habits haven't changed a bit, we're just used to them.
She is aggressive when playing, but not the hissing growling towards the other cats kind of aggressive.
for example NEVER give her a stuffed animal to play fight with because as soon as she is done play fighting with a stuffed toy, she instantly goes for the nearest cat and grabs them by the neck, pins them down and presses very hard on the cat's neck immobilizing them completely.
She is small, but heavier than the persians now, Casper is 300g heavier than her I believe and he is the biggest, so it's very easy for her to completely dominate all 3, even Casper because she is much stronger than he is.
Fortunately if they hiss at her she backs down, but she can be dangers in that she has zero control of her bite strength and she did make Mila, the mom Persian faint twice back in 2021 by grabbing her by the neck and biting too hard and holding onto her for too long.
for example when Mila grooms her, atter a while Spaska gently touches her with her front paw as if to pet her, she does that to us humans too but the cats don't like it and Mila just walks away or gets upset with her leaving a confused Spaska.
). In my case Zorro was the runt, so had to fight for everything, until he realized he didn’t have to. Maybe something like that happened in her feral life.
