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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

How to stop your kitten from biting

I ask this question in Siamese-Cats page in Facebook because kimi bites a lot and we cannot take it anymore. Kimi bad behavior might be resulting from my mistake, who always use my hands to fish him to play when we first took him in. Besides hands, finger, i also use my feet and toes instead of proper toys. 

From all the comment in Facebook, it came down to this 10 best way to stop your kitten from biting :

1. Get them toys to chew. 
2. Scream NO loudly, its irritating for their ears. 
3. Flicked on the nose with a firm NO
4. Hold their bottom jaw briefly, quickly tell them no biting and release
5. Don't use your hands as toys
6. Get them another kitten or cat to play with
7. Never play rough, stop playing until the kitten calm down and then resume
8. Use water bottle to spray their face when they bite. 
9. Use cardboard box, make a hole in it for them to play and chew. 
10. They might be teething

We believe that kimi was teething and his bites wasn't so bad at first and it seems playful. But now since he's growing, his bites getting harder and more painful. The best way with kimi is by giving him toys to bite. I gave him teddy bear his size and now another bunny where he drag all around with him (that bunny is bigger than him). When i gave it to him i can see that he bite the bunny and wrestle it all he want. 

Living with cantik also allows him to have friend and play. Even though cantik is old and not interested to play anymore, she still entertain him or at least let him bites and annoyed her. She's such an angel :D

Screaming NO loudly help Kimi to stop for 10 seconds before continued, especially if he got so much energy and in a mood to play. During this time it's best to hide my hands and stop playing with him. He will get the idea that i didn't want to play anymore and move to something more interesting around the house.

We still work on making him stop but i wish he will out grow it. My mom told me not to pull my hands when he bite to let him know that we allow him to play with us. Sometimes when we pull our hand, he sees it as aggressive move which make him start to become aggressive himself. 

It doesn't matter kimi bites or not, we still love him like crazy. I will try all the recommendations and see if its going to work with him, its good enough if we can lessen his bad habit. 


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