why does my cat attack me?

Cats do this when they get a mad half hour my cats do exactly the same, I just put it down to bursts of excitement however you are being bit whereas my cats just cling and strike with their claws, my advice is to just remove the cat into another room let him bite a soft toy rip that to pieces you will find he will then settle down.

Merry Christmas to you both

Do you approach him or does he just run up and attack you? I know some cats don't like you coming directly at their face or you have to come at them really slowly and not per aggressively. My cat will bite playfully if I get too close to her head too quickly.

Maybe he just has a temperament issue that somehow can be broken with patient training. If anything you can always ask your vet.

They also have chewable pills to keep him calm. I think they have chamomile or something in them.

feed her

you're possessed and the cat senses this

you probably dont show her your love

cats want loveeee

and food

Cats just walk around and look at random things

and ear scratching or chin scratching

that's literally all cats do unless you have a laser pointer

Lol my cat runs around my house

like she wants to play tag

This is going to sound stupid, but male cats can get aggressive if they are deprived from sex. At least it's only every 3 months.

kitten's bite hardly even when they're in playful mood. he just wants some toys for teething. this is the age of their growth .you must train her for not biting you.

It can be broke of that.

My female cat did that ONCE.

She was not playing, more like practicing her hunting skills, hiding behind a door and lashed at me when I walked inside the room.

She got me so well; she got stuck in the flesh of my lower leg.

She only did it once because I screamed so loudly, she does not want to hear that again.

Also I became more aware when walking inside a room or turning a corner.

Maybe you don’t scream loud enough or your cat forgets about it after 3 months.

God invented cats so you could pet a tiger at home (Victor Hugo)

I have a few suggestions…for what they’re worth.

First, if your cat is a good hunter, become a good prey.

Preys (like birds) have eyes on both sides of their head for good peripheral vision and awareness of their environment to avoid hunters.

You’re not a bird but you can still try to be more aware where your cat is at all times to avoid surprise attacks.

A cat might attack you just because you’re unaware, distracted, and busy doing something, sleeping, from the back…

I endured two other painful attacks from my kitten, once when she jumped at my scalp from behind when I was sitting on my bed, probably going after a lock of my hair.

Another time, I was sleeping. I woke up because she was on top of me (where she often sleeps), purring loudly and tickling my face with her whiskers (her way to wake me up) and then I opened my eyes and she was looking at me and lashed at my eyelashes. She scratched one of my corneas and I got a red eye for 3 weeks. I felt lucky I was neither playing nor fighting with her at the time or I would have probably lost an eye as many big dogs can attest after trying to bother a small cat.

One of the reason I adopted her (I was her foster for the Human Society when she had Kennel Cough), beside the fact that I needed a good predator in my house, is because she was such a handful…scratching, biting, hyper energetic, pushing everything down from shelves and any flat surfaces (dresser, kitchen counters…) I was afraid she would get adopted and then returned when people could not handle her so she could get worse. Plus I like a challenge as it’s very rewarding when you succeed taming your cat.

Second, exert your dominance over your cat so he will stop attacking you.

You do that by staring and showing that you’re paying attention and making noises like breathing hard, using your tongue, throat (develop your own language with your cat so you can communicate).

Staring can be a rude behavior for humans but for cats, it’s normal, as they don’t need to blink so they always stare, but still use blinking as body language to convey messages like “I don’t perceive you as a threat and/or I’m not up for a fight right now”. If I stare at my cat, she slowly blinks and then yawns to either express her submission to me or her non-willingness to confront me or her acknowledgment that she does not perceive me as a threat or whatever, depending on how and when she blinks or yaws.

My cat is now 14 months old and she’s not attacking me anymore. She’s affectionate, purring, cuddly, warm, very soft (I love her shiny winter thick fur), and clean, killing any bug that dares checking out my house, she’s beautiful and it took some know-how about how to develop communication with her but now we understand each other.

I provide her with food, water, a litter box, love and health care and she protects me from bugs and rodents (no mouse in my house and no cockroaches in my kitchen) and provides me with her warmth to put me to sleep and her purring to wake me up.

When you see sibling kittens “playing”, it can get rough when one is biting fiercely while the other is screaming…

It’s like if you would see a female cat screaming and scratching while a male cat is biting the back of her neck (to paralyze her) and mounting her while another cat or two are waiting for their turn, it looks like gang rape but all those cats are “getting along”. It’s just the way cats make love. She’s the dominant female. She called for them. They came to satisfy her and she’ll spend the rest of the day sleeping.

Your cat could be biting you to express love, not just practicing attacking a prey and since you’re probably 15 or 20 times bigger than he is, he thinks you won’t mind…so you have to make your cat understand that he should not bite/scratch you as you’re not a cat and don’t like that. My cat got the message; mostly because of my screaming loudly when she hurt me, not on purpose but because of the pain…don’t use noise to tame a cat (cats are very sensitive to loud noise) but also by my being aware and assuming a dominant position (staring at her). She sometimes assumes such a submissive position that she goes like a Ragdoll (it’s a breed of cats that go limp when you pick them up) when she wants me to chase after her and catch her before bedtime. At times, I’m too tired and give up chasing after a minute and just go to bed and then she shows up a couple of minutes later, looking very proud, like “you did not catch me this time, didn’t you?”

“Du maître ou du chat, le maître c’est lui”

(Of the master or the cat, the master is the cat).

Once you accept that you learn more from your cat that he can ever learn from you, you realize that both of you have the same goal…to serve, protect and please the other one.

Just make sure your cat knows that scratching/biting, as well as licking your ears, eyes, nostrils and mouth is not pleasing to you as you’re not a cat.

My cat only licks the tip of my nose and my eyebrows and now mostly just sniffs them.

I can play with her and she shows extreme restraint when biting me with tenderness, not breaking my skin with her sharp teeth, and using “pattes de velours” (velvet paws with retracted claws) as to not scratch my skin that is like butter to her claws.