"Why do my cat always likes to bite me when playing with me? How can I change this habit?" This should be the inner demand of many cat slaves! In fact, kittens bite people is a very common behavioral problem. If the kitten has a cheerful p...
"Why do my cat always likes to bite me when playing with me? How can I change this habit?" This should be the inner demand of many cat slaves!
In fact, kittens bite people is a very common behavioral problem.
If the kitten has a cheerful personality and its parents or other kittens in the litter do not bite people, then the general reason for this biting behavior is attributed to its wrong guidance during its childhood "socialized training".
The social training of kittens is an indispensable part of cats' integration into humans and group life.
This training usually starts from the time the kitten is in more than 30 days and ends in about 2 months.
However, the interaction between the owner and the cat still has a profound impact on its behavior over the next 2-5 months.
The impact of these trainings includes:
For example, we can let us take a bath;
For example, we can stay in the cat bag with peace of mind;
For example, we can comb it without escaping;
For example, we can interact happily with you through toys;
, etc., etc.
If some interaction methods are wrong at this stage, long-term problems are prone to occur.
01 FAQ
One of the most common problems at this stage is: parents like to use their fingers or toes to interact with kittens.
In fact, this interaction is to train the cat to hunt. If there are two kittens at home, they may become each other's hunting targets.
Of course, if you only have this kitten at home, you may act as that "prey".
The correct way to do this is that you can buy it some toys and cat sticks for training and guidance.
02 Incorrect guidance
What is wrong guidance in real life?
For example, you don’t have to sway the cat to play with the cat, but instead use your fingers to sway left and right to tease the cat.
For example, you are lying in the quilt, the cat is on the sheet, and your toes are sliding against the quilt.
The above two situations, usually cats will actively interact with you, rush towards your fingers, and have fun playing with you on the bed sheet.
At this time, because the cat is still very small, you may find it super cute and interesting.
However, this kind of wrong guidance will lay the groundwork for their future bad behavioral habits.
03 Behavior problems
When they grow up and rush towards your fingers, you will weaken your behavior in this regard.
But cats will look for the feeling they were when they were young, so they may actively rush to your hands or feet stretched out under the quilt.
It will even hide behind the door, rush towards you and hold your ankles as you appear to interact with you.
In these cases, you may scream and be shocked, and the feedback you give will further strengthen this cat's bad behavior.
You can imagine yourself as its prey. The more screaming the prey, the more excited the cat is.
The more this behavior of a cat is reinforced by your feedback, the more it will be more ruthless the next time it launches an "attack" on you.
At this time, you may be confused, so you may scold it, hit it, and spray it with a sprayer.
These punitive behaviors often have no effect, but will make the cat both confused and anxious.
Because it doesn't understand why you could have had so much fun with it. Now it does the same thing as when you were a child, but you have to scold it?
So after this punishment, it is very likely to change the way it interacts with you (attacks), such as hiding under the sofa, suddenly rushing out and biting you, then hiding quickly, and observing you secretly.
In short, if you have a wrong training when you are a child, you will have many bad behavior problems when you grow up.
04 Correct behavior problems
Then what if this kind of attack behavior caused by improper training when I was a child should be corrected?
First, no feedback will be given to its "attack" behavior.
Secondly, when it relaxes, give the correct interactive gameplay and give more rewards.
Third, fill it with the blank time.
Let me first, first, after I talked about the principle of "attack" of cats, I believe it is not difficult to see that when they attack you, just don't give feedback, so that they will gradually know that doing so is invalid.
However, it is easier said than done. Few people can remain silent after being attacked by cats.
So, it is best to wear protective gear in space or time when you feel you may be attacked.
For example, if it often attacks your ankles, you should wear thicker socks or boots.
There are also many more professional protective gears on Taobao, so you can search for them yourself.
As long as you can try not to strengthen its behavior when it attacks you, then this step is considered a success.
Let's talk about the second thing, when it is relaxing, play with it at least twice a day, for ten minutes each time.
You can use a cat stick, or something else toy.
But one thing to emphasize here is that you must seize the opportunity to complete this training when it is leisurely, rather than when it is ready to "attack" you.
The last article, the reason why this behavior problem occurs is largely because the cat is too bored. If it has enough time to entertain during the day, it does not need to cause trouble for you. After all, the cat still has so many sleeps to sleep.
Therefore, automatic toys, vertical space creation, or finding a cat as a companion for it, are all good choices.
I believe there are no real "bad cats" in the world, only sensitive cats. If you take more patience and time, everything will be fine.
