Help! I've tried everything to make my cat stop biting me!

[Marigold2]

My large Maine Coon would bite me when I first adopted him. I now put my finger gently on his nose and say NO BITES. He understands and stops right away. I hold my finger on his nose for a good 30 seconds and then I walk away. It works very well for me. Good luck to you.

[Freedom]

Use the water squirt bottle. Carry it with you for a day or two if need be. The cat will learn very quickly what is OK and what is not OK.

[Lilly75]

My cat is about 6 months old and bits she doesn't bit to hurt she seem to know that, but I fear she may start.
Do I have to worry about that?
I have never had a cat befor only dogs and dogs learn pretty fast Cats seem to have a mind of their Own.
love my cat just the same.
Lilly75

[GILL]

I agree with catlady711. I use a squirt bottle most of the time. I also use the grab methode. Our youngest LUCY is at the stage that he likes to bite. When he goes to bite I let he grab my thumb, nail up, then gently grab his lower jaw. I hold for just a few secounds and he gets the idea that this is not a good thing, too be trapped. All of our young ones went through this and none bite.

[Medusa]

Everyone has given you excellent advice and, if after trying these things you still see no success, ask your vet about Clomicalm. It's for behavior problems in dogs but has been used successfully w/cats. I have 4 of my cats on it for aggressiveness and inappropriate peeing. Try all the other things first because many of us feel that medicating a cat for behavior problems should be a last resort but, as I said, if all else fails, give Clomicalm a try. Or kitty Prozac. Good luck.

[moosmom]

Soda can filled pennies. Shake it everytime he bites. One question though...is he declawed? You can also try a squirt bottle.

[GILL]

It takes some time but she will learn. The best thing is not to wrestle in any way shape or form. As I said before I have the bottles all over the house and every one knows I shoot frist and ask questions latter. It is kind of fun as the older ones know when I reach for a bottle someones going to get wet. They will keep an eye on me. The younger ones scater.

[Catlady711]

She will run up to me, and just latch onto me and start clawing and biting, wanting to wrestle and play. (It gets MUCH worse when the fleas get bad on her, I bathe her every couple weeks with anti-flea shampoo)

This part here may be a clue as to why your kitty isn't affectionate and is biting your hands.

Your cat being bitten by fleas is like us being bitten by mosquitoes. It's very annoying and can make us very aggrevated. If you are seeing the fleas and you have been having problems with them repeatedly, then you have a MUCH bigger flea problem than you realize.

Bathing with flea shampoo is only killing the visable fleas on the cat at that exact moment. It's doing nothing for the main flea population at all. Only 5% of the flea population is visable as adult fleas, the rest are immature stages that are darn near invisible they are so small. A single female flea lays 2,000 eggs in her lifetime!!

No only is your cat enduring being bitten constantly but every few weeks enduring a bath, which most cats dislike intensely! This may also have something to do with why your kitty attacks your hands.

Get some Frontline PLUS, or Advantage and use it EVERY 30 days for at least a year and you'll get control over the fleas. These products not onlyl kill the adult (visable) fleas, but also stop the eggs from hatching into adult fleas.

It's much better for your kitty to endure an application of flea medicine that works once a month than to endure a bath that doesn't work every few weeks. If you stop using the flea meds too early as soon as you aren't seeing fleas anymore, I can guarantee you that your flea problem will return and you will have wasted your money on what you did do.

Stop the wrestling, get your flea problem under control, and then worry about the affectionate part when she comes around.

Good luck. Keep us posted.

[Medusa]

Aw, poor thing. I didn't realize she has fleas. Yes, Catlady711 is right on. Get rid of those fleas. The poor little girl is miserable!

[mtvglick]

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You are momma cat...so hiss, growl, bump, grab the back of the neck...but you must let your cat know the behavior is unacceptable...more gentle...blow air at cats nose, use spray bottle,...what should eventually happen.....you just looking at him/her or saying a certain phrase to be used only when correcting a behavior that you don't like should be enough for the cat to go into displacement mode...like any young cat training must begin the first day at home...so don't give up considering kitty has had gotten away with this bad behavior....just like children- consistent and fair.