My cat nearly at my one of my arms !
My big, fat fluffy male cat has always been a bully, but now he has gone too far !He is 10 years old.
He usually sleeps on my bed and sneaks next to me for a cuddle. Last Sunday he lay next to me as I was lying on my bed and snuggled under one of my arms. Now, he often takes a swipe at me or nips me and one of my two dogs, slightly, but nothing too mean. I pulled my arm from under him gently (fearing his attack!) and he clutched my arm in a vice like grip! He wouldn't let go and really dug his teeth in ! I screamed and tapped him, but it was about 10 seconds before he finally let go when I tugged slightly on his tail.
He has been banished to the top of the stairs and the living room. He has jumped on the bed a couple of times trying to come for a cuddle but I've shouted at him and got him out.
Is there anyone else who has experienced this and do you think I will ever be able to cuddle him again?
I am now sporting a badly bruised arm with seven teeth puncture holes in it !
He usually sleeps on my bed and sneaks next to me for a cuddle. Last Sunday he lay next to me as I was lying on my bed and snuggled under one of my arms. Now, he often takes a swipe at me or nips me and one of my two dogs, slightly, but nothing too mean. I pulled my arm from under him gently (fearing his attack!) and he clutched my arm in a vice like grip! He wouldn't let go and really dug his teeth in ! I screamed and tapped him, but it was about 10 seconds before he finally let go when I tugged slightly on his tail.
He has been banished to the top of the stairs and the living room. He has jumped on the bed a couple of times trying to come for a cuddle but I've shouted at him and got him out.
Is there anyone else who has experienced this and do you think I will ever be able to cuddle him again?
I am now sporting a badly bruised arm with seven teeth puncture holes in it !
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Sending a clear message that it's not acceptable is the key. If you put him on the floor, or chase him onto the floor as soon as he bites/scratches you, and you tell him 'no' and refuse to let him back up to be with you, he'll realise he's not getting away with it..
Cats are like kids.. lol... they have to be told off once in a while. lol
I agree with you, although I know some people will say that the cat doesn't understand, and it's not fair to tell them off. I think they understand very well, especially the tone of voice. I agree that smacking a cat doesn't have much effect, but a water spray is good. My Maine **** hates aerosols so much that I just have to show him a perfume spray and he's out of there! Doesn't stop him trying it on again if he thinks he can get away with it, I've never met such a stubborn cat!
I'm with you on the smacking. I've never smacked them... a tap on the nose when they try to steal my dinner.. haha.. but that's only cuz it makes them jump back..
I do use the water spray though.. I use it on two of our neighbourhood cats.. who insist on coming right into my house, much to the disgust of my feline residents.. They aren't long in scarpering when the plant spray comes out lol
My dad was helping me to build rabbit hutches last week, and one of the sneaky furballs kept sloping down towards my open back door.. I couldn't go in for the water spray, cuz my hands were full but as soon as my dad put the electric screwdriver on, the cat ran like hell.. haha.. The noise must have freaked it out!
She got it when it was a kitten and he was even nasty then. When he grew up she had him neutered and tried everything to stop his nastiness but in the end we had to get rid of him to a cat rescue.
He was really bad and would quite seriously attack family members or visitors for no reason - often drawing blood.
I've tried this several times, but I think he's getting the message clearer now. I've got a lot tougher with him this time. Last year when he did it the vet advised to put him in a room he doesn't like - which I think is the bathroom. I tried it for a a minute or two a couple of times - then starting catching him in there in the Summer snuggled up on the mat !
I've made him very comfy on the chair with a lovely, fluffy chair cover and he's sleeping away snoring contentedly!
I was shaking! I've never been attacked like that by a cat since, my cat will make the occasional swipe at me with claws out, but nothing like that. It didn't put me off Oscar as he was normally a total softie, but I stayed out of his way for quite a while, and was glad to get me and my cat out of there
It usually only lasts about half an hour though, then they settle down to sleep.. and they don't do it every day.. lol
Oh yes definitely ! my cat Penny, sleeps for most of the day and then at some point during the evening she turns into a complete and utter nutter ! runs up and down, chases her tail like a dog and generally leaps about and likes you to look at her and play with her when she's doing it. I find it very funny and charming. She's never vicious, has never scratched or bitten, in fact apart from her evening bouts of madness she's an absolute princess. You've guess it, I love her very much.
Yup, come 10 o'clock he goes a bit mental, racing around, fighting things, etc. He knows it's wet food time at 10.30pm and then out for the night to do the things that a cat does.
Despite having a cattery to sleep in, he is always completely knackered the next day when he comes in in the morning - presumably 'coz he has been out chasing, fighting and generally bothering things.
One of my cats used to be a real pain, he'd attack the neighbours and bite their ankles when they were in their garden (which he'd apparently decided was his territory). Fortunately they're cat lovers and put up with it. We discovered eventually that he had very bad teeth that were obviously hurting him and he changed completely when they were taken out. He had no other symptoms, had a good appetite and everything, it just made him very bad-tempered. So maybe something to think about if a cat gets irritable.