Hi everyone!
My darling kitten is 1 on Monday and she's gotten back into the habit of unprovoked attacks! When we first got her she would randomly latch on and bunny kick us but she didn't have any litter mates to play with so we think she just didn't learn how far was too far with play.
We managed to train her out of the habit and shes been 10x better than she used to be but recently she's gotten worse again.
I'll be folding washing and she'll just launch and latch her entire body onto my arm and start biting and bunny kicking or she'll be asleep on my knee and all of a sudden roll onto her back and grab me. I'm not sure what to do because playing with her doesn't seem to help it (we literally play with her in all our spare time and we even throw treats down to mimic her getting something from the prey). I'm trying hard not to pick I'll toys as soon as she attacks so she doesn't think attacking is the way to get our attention to play.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I could stop this? It's getting pretty painful and it seems to only be me she's going for whether I'm sat still or moving. Getting another cat isn't on the cards at the moment as I'm moving back in with my mum, I have wondered if getting another cat might help though.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated because my arms and hands are being torn to bits
EDIT: She's also a very clever cat so maybe some interactive toys for when I'm not here could help? Any suggestions on non motorised toys would be great as the motorised ones really scare her!
My darling kitten is 1 on Monday and she's gotten back into the habit of unprovoked attacks! When we first got her she would randomly latch on and bunny kick us but she didn't have any litter mates to play with so we think she just didn't learn how far was too far with play.
We managed to train her out of the habit and shes been 10x better than she used to be but recently she's gotten worse again.
I'll be folding washing and she'll just launch and latch her entire body onto my arm and start biting and bunny kicking or she'll be asleep on my knee and all of a sudden roll onto her back and grab me. I'm not sure what to do because playing with her doesn't seem to help it (we literally play with her in all our spare time and we even throw treats down to mimic her getting something from the prey). I'm trying hard not to pick I'll toys as soon as she attacks so she doesn't think attacking is the way to get our attention to play.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I could stop this? It's getting pretty painful and it seems to only be me she's going for whether I'm sat still or moving. Getting another cat isn't on the cards at the moment as I'm moving back in with my mum, I have wondered if getting another cat might help though.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated because my arms and hands are being torn to bits
EDIT: She's also a very clever cat so maybe some interactive toys for when I'm not here could help? Any suggestions on non motorised toys would be great as the motorised ones really scare her!