Why am I a chew toy?

LOL Yeah, well, my Frisky is 11 years old and still tries to do hard love nips on me at least once a day. I have to firmly tell him NO BITING and sometimes just dump him out of my lap to make the point. So I do sympathize with your predicament. At least Frisky doesn’t bite my face!

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My Charger also thinks I’m a human chew toy but it’s mostly my fault because I ignored the various advice available on the net on how to prevent the very thing. When he started teething a few weeks old and started nibbling my fingers, I found it too cute to stop him or punish him. Now he’s 5 months old and ambushes my hands and chews away daily. Hurts even more when coupled with the bunny kick. He bites my chin and lip too if I get too close to him while he’s in a hand biting frenzy but it’s as if he knows not to bite my face too hard like he does with my hands.

I bought him a dangly toy attached to the end of a pole and that seems to distract him more often than not now but at times when I cannot find it, my hands are the chew toy of choice.

All part of being owned by cats I guess 😀

Dee Dee

Pookie needs some playtime fun with maybe feaher wand or laser for exercise. The hair thing is common furry fun/Lol. Or at least has been in my world with kits!

This is exactly the topic I could use some help with too! It was kind of nice to read your comment Pookster. My Jamie does this same thing…every night when I try to get into bed. It doesn’t seem to help playing with him before bed. It just gets him more riled up. I have been trying to give him a small handful of crunchies to distract him while I climb in. But he still jumps up on the bed and gets all crazy…attacking my hands and launching himself at anything that moves on the bed. He has that wild look in his eyes that makes me a bit worried. He is exactly the same age, 7 months and was neutered last month..I thought it would help, but hasn’t. I have a lovely scratch on my nose from a few nights ago and some new ones on my arm from last night. Anyone have advice?

I read a few of the advice links and I think it may just be predatory aggression. He has always been a bit bitey/scratchy/gnarly. It is hard to know when he’s gonna get the wild hair up his butt though. When we sleep he is the most snuggly, sweet, loving baby. But there are certain times like when I am walking around the house or trying to go to bed that he just starts the launch attacking. His tail swishes and he has that zoned in look…I say NO! I have stopped pointing because he just attacks my hand when I do that. I try to put my hands behind my back. On the bed he is so close to my face I worry. But man, does he go for my hands…like when I try to pull the covers up and stuff. I fling him off the bed and he comes right back a few times before finding something less volatile to attack…eejit kitteh is right!