Kitten wont stop biting...maybe PICA?

Almost a year ago, I adopted an 8 week old kitten from Animal Care. First thing I did was bring him to the vet for bloodwork and a checkup. Everything came back good, except he had ear mites, which I cleaned out with the medication given to me. 

My cat is possibly the mushiest cat I have ever met. He is definitely my little baby. But, theres 2 things he does that are terrible. 

#1-He bites. 

Im not talking about little love bites. Im talking about full on clamping down on my bones and biting. It could be any time of day. While anything is going on. I have tried to distract him by throwing toys, he just doesnt care. I have tried to be stern and tell him no, but then his ears go back and he lunges. My body is riddled in scars from him.

#2-He eats anything and everything

When I say anything, I mean anything. Boxes, tissues, toilet paper, paper towels, plastic, hair ties, bathtub grout. I have even caught him licking my bathroom carpet a few times as well as licking tissues. I think he has PICA. He has even enjoyed licking a lemon before. 

The vet tells me there is nothing wrong with him but all he does is bite and eat. I dont know what to do!! Other than the biting , he is amazingly sweet. 

Any one have any tips?

OUCH! poor you, that hurts.

The only things I know about biting is to blow on their faces - quite gently tho. I find cats dont like it and often let go. The other thing which is hard, and that's not to flap your hands around when been bitten, seems like a game to a cat. Pushing the cat aside and ignoring it is good too because any fuss at all, even if negative, seems to make cats (and children!) think that its a reward. They have your attention.  Oh, and I nearly forgot, sometimes a wet cloth wiped over their face a bit (and again, gently) may help too to let go if kitty is biting and hanging on. Gentle shock factor without any pain or too much stress!

I think biting is natural too for a kitten, so he's just got to learn all over that this isn't acceptable. He's very young at 8 weeks. Hopefully he will learn to stop as he gets older, and perhaps being neutered may help too, stop him from attempting to be the dominate one.

Pica, I suffered from that once, isn't it a deficiency? Mine was iron and I loved and hankered after ice.  With the bloods and what the vet says, do you think again that it's kitty being young and trying out everything? We had a young dog like that - ate everything. To name a few, ate my rent money to my parents, a phone and even a tube of germaline, yuck. He did grow out of it after a couple of months. I hope you have that luck too!

Fingers firmly crossed for you!

Ugh thank you. He's actually a year old now and he still does it. I've tried blowing in his face, a water spray bottle, which eventually he just started biting and loved the water coming out if it, even bitter apple spray. That was my favorite. It said he should hate that stuff, so I slathered it on my hand to see what would happen, he licked me for a half hour. I even bought him a cat tree cause I though, maybe if he had his own territory he'd stop. But alas, he's still biting.

Oh! Sounds like a very determined kitty you have there, did smile at the licking your bitter apple! Cheeky chops. I did think about time out in a room on his own, but wondered if it was cruel so I looked it up. Found this website which does recommend it and other tips, don't know if any good to you (probably seen it before) but thought I'd copy the link anyway.  Good luck to you, I really don't know any other tricks as it's not something I've had to deal with for too long. You have my sympathies!

http://www.vet.cornell.edu/FHC/health_resources/brochure_aggression.cfm

How about a can of air? Be careful what he eats...You don't want to have to pay for those expensive surgeries. He's a cutie!

When I inherited my 13-year-old cat, he had a bad history of biting hands. His previous owner thought it was a game and would provoke him. After he came to live with me, he tried it twice with me. When he bit me, instead of pulling my hand away, I pushed my hand (the area between thumb and forefinger) further into his mouth -- not enough to hurt him or cause damage, but enough that he couldn't close his jaw. I put my other hand on the back of his head so that he couldn't move. The positioning was enough. Force to the point of hurting should not be used. He did not like not being able to close his jaw and he did not like this new human reaction to being bitten at all. It was a message that I was not a bite bag and would not put up with this behaviour. He hasn't tried since although I can sometimes see that he wants to.