The Cat Thinks Attacking Me Is A Way to Show Affection
By pammitay49
@pammitay49 (16)
United States
February 11, 2012 2:05pm CST
Our cat thinks that attacking us is a way of showing affection, or that's what it seems like. She will attack anything that moves, and when you try to pet her, she attacks your hands, arms, legs, whatever is available to her claws. She does not like to be held for very long. She lays in wait and jumps out whenever anyone passes her hiding place. Is there any way to get her to stop this? She has lots of toys to play with, I guess she thinks we are just big cats. Also, she attacks our older female cat who has a real hissy fit about it. Any suggestions?
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@ajk111 (2495)
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12 Feb 12
my male cat does this with wide eyed amusement. the main thing i do is not to pull away when he grabs me with his claws as they are like fish hooks.
i go along with it as he is only playing and i know how far to take it.
i am afriad i have no tips on how to avoid it unless you spray the cat with water mist, they learn quickly from that!
@humerasadat (73)
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12 Feb 12
spray water when you want to stop your cat to attack you.I had a cat too and this trick worked.
@savypat (20216)
• United States
11 Feb 12
This is the way cats treat each other and they don't know better unless trained.
Try to hold her in a calm fashion, with lots of pets and soft talk. When she is calm start to work on her feet, gently take each paw in hand and fold her claws in
never force this and never play with her by roughing up her fur or tease her with your hands. When playing with her only use a ball or something attached to a string, after each play time try to get her to settle in your lap or arms and spend the quite time with smoothing pets and gentle paw handling. It may take awahile to get her gentled down but age will help. Also make sure that no other humans are rough handling her with their hands. Your goal is to teach her that calm loving touching is enjoyable.
@NailTech (6874)
• United States
12 Feb 12
Yes, gentleness and no rough housing works wonders. I tell my cat who still bites, chases me, etc. on occasion a stern "NO" if she tries to bite me, not screaming at her but so she knows what I mean. Then I pet her in a gentle way and she seems to calm down.
@NailTech (6874)
• United States
12 Feb 12
Have you tried putting up some shelving for her so she has some sort of height to the room when she is indoors? I have seen this on a show called My Cat From Hell, the guy is a musician by night and a cat behaviourist by day or something to that effect. He specializes in cats with behaviour problems such as this and worse. He normally says to put those shelves up, or put up more litter boxes, play with the cat more with her toys on a regular basis so she is exhausted and does not want to "play" with the people's hands and arms, legs, etc., and just re-trains them again depending on what other problems the cat is exhibiting. There is a different case with these cats each time but for the most part he says the same things.
