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Posted by loria032 on December 30, 2002 at 14:54:11:
My husband and I found a stray kitten in our backyard this past summer -- his eyes weren't even opened yet. We have a huge stray problem (working on trapping and spay/neutering the ones we find) so we decided to adopt this little one. It took about two days before he bonded solidly with me (the strongest bond) and my husband. He is a little lover-kitty (call him Romeo) who really loves attention and loving (follows us through the house, tries to climb up my leg-no claws-so that I will pick him up and just hold him) and is a consummate purrer (just need to kiss him on the face and he'll start a roaring purr).
However, his aggressiveness is becoming unbearable (he's 5 mos.). I will be sitting on the couch and he'll jump up and bite my hands and arms (sometimes he'll just settle for biting my ankles while I'm sitting there). He has even jumped up onto my face before. I've tried moving my hand towards his mouth (it's almost like he thanks me for that b/c he bites down harder), spray bottles (he loves water--doesn't even mind a bath), he has a gazillion toys of which I play with him to try and tire him out, I even offer him other things to bite instead of my hand, but he's not interested in anything else other than my hand.
If I hold my hand perfectly still and let him bite me, he calms down and, almost like a child with a pacifier, will just gnaw on my hand with his eyes almost closed. I've also tried the tap on the nose (only bites harder), holding by the nape of the neck and saying no (incenses him more when I let go), and knocking him off of the couch...all of which have done nothing. Time out works to a certain extent but give him a half-hour or so for him to remember where he left off and he's right back to my hand. He doesn't do this as much with my husband (or anyone else for that matter -- he's a complete angel).
Getting another kitty isn't an option b/c my husband is deathly allergic and is on 3 different prescriptions plus 2 inhalers as is just to have this little one (we really love him!). We both work so he is left alone for the day so I always have the guilty feeling that he's angry with me for leaving him -- when he attacks, his pupils get extremely large, not small as I've read is usually the case when a cat becomes aggressive and my mother seems to think it's b/c he was a ferrel cat and he's always going to be "wild" -- Any suggestions or thoughts would be extremely appreciated!