Hi all 
. So first a little bit about my cat, Reggae.
He is about a year and a half old, and I adopted him when he was 2 months old while I was living in the Caribbean, in St. Kitts. He is so ridiculously playful and always getting into, and onto things. He follows me everywhere I go, meows so sadly when I am in a room he can't be in (ie the bathroom) and he will eat anything.
He does not like to be held and usually will only tolerate it for a few seconds, but he is still very affectionate in other ways. More recently (with in the last 4-3 months) I have noticed him having a desire for more contact. He climbs on me and leans against me while I am relaxing to just be in contact with me and will stay for long periods of time, purring.
He does not really try to assert dominance and I don't really think he is that dominant of a cat at all. For instance, one of my friends got a new kitten, and I brought Reggae over for a "play date" For the first couple of hours, we witness the strangest display of dominance vs. submission. My 1 year old cat was rolling on his back, walking away from, and ignoring this little kitten...while the kitten stalked him with his ears back, hissing, angrily meowing at him and attacking him. After a couple hours of this, they literally played with each other all day and night. Chasing after each other, pouncing, purring, playing...it was incredibly cute!
Also, I have never ever ever heard him hiss. Ever. He has given me the look of death before but I have never heard an angry hiss or an angry meow from him.
Also, he kneads and "suckles" (as I like to call it) very often. He will do it to anything including my hand or other body part. When he does this, his eyes are closed and his mouth is gently wrapped around whatever object it is, his tongue is pressed up against it and he kneads at the same time. This kinda makes me think that he wasn't with his mama for very long :(
And lastly...his tail is ALWAYS moving. It's either just flicking back and forth at the very tip, exaggeratingly swishing from side to side, or just lazily flapping up and down while he's resting. He chases and pounces on his tail quite frequently, and I have even witnessed him have to manually stop his tail from moving by pinning it with his paw while he was trying to sleep. I actually have a video of him doing this and its one of the funniest things I have ever seen.
Ok sorry for the long introduction...I don't really know much about cats or how much you need to know about one to know what is going on with them.
Now, I have gotten to know his about-to-attack cues very well. I know the look on his face, the dilated pupils, he doesn't make a peep and he's completely still. Except for his eyes which follow whatever he wants to attack to a tee. Usually, this is my hand and he will do this when I have been minding my own business. I have literally woken up to him attacking my hand and then running away, and he bites it hard! Sometimes his biting is playful (i'll use my hand or feet under the sheets...I know I know, shame on me...) but when these surprise attacks happen, it honestly doesn't seem very playful, and he looks completely evil before he's about to do it! And seriously, I mean EVIL!!
Sometimes I will try to snap him out of it before he attacks by saying "NO" or slapping my hand on a surface and this works and he runs away (only to return and eventually try again). But sometimes, honestly, I try to pet him when he does this cause I am almost thinking "Why would he want to do this to me? I should be allowed to just sit here or pet him if I want to" Of course when I go out to pet him he leans back and if I continue it always ends with him biting me. I have even used a spray bottle before for this and other means of discipline too. I don't even need to spray it anymore cause when he sees it, he stops dead in his tracks or runs away.
After he has already bitten me, I will usually pick him up by his scruff and either say no, or blow in his face and then I let him down. He looks so helpless and scared when I do that and I don't even know if that is the right thing to do.
The point is, despite all my efforts here, he continues to do this to me on a daily basis and at unsuspecting times. I have scars on my arms and hands from this too. He is never so aggressive that he chases me to attack or anything like that. Its just when him and I are both hanging out, minding our business, when all of a sudden that look appears in his eyes.
I really really hope for a permanent solution for this. I get so angry and frustrated sometimes that he just does this to me out of nowhere and I love him very much!
Help!
