Some of you may remember, as I have mentioned on a few of my posts, Dori gets very agressive with me when she wants to play. I read the post about how to stop agression, and believe she has play agression. I read about tossing a toy when she begins to act that way and tried it, and when I toss the toy she looks at it for a sec and then attacks my leg. When I say attack, I mean she runs to my leg and bites me, hard, and just recently she started using her claws. I haven't tried the time out in the bathroom for 5 minutes because I can't get hold of her when she is acting this way. She will tear my arms up.
When Dori was little, I did used to play with her with my hands, wiggling my fingers etc. for her. I learned after visiting this site not to do it and stopped. It is not really my fingers she attacks though, it's just me.
I have been trying to pay attention and find out what is going on before she attacks. She attacks me every time I go to bed. If I get up and go to the bathroom and go back to bed during the night, she attacks me. If I take a nap, she attacks me. I can't have any part of my body out of the covers during the 1st 5 minutes or so I am in bed or she will bite me hard or scratch me. She even will attack my head. I have to cover up and wait for her to get bored and leave. I don't want to lock her out, because after she comes back she snuggles with me, and will sleep with me for the whole night.
I try to play with her so that she will get tired and not try to attack before bed, but any toy that I play with her with, she is only interested in attacking me. I play with a fishing pole toy, and instead of looking at the feather and bell at the end, she watches the movement of my arm swinging it and would rather attack that. I have scars all up my arms from her bites. She doesn't bite my bf or his son at all, only me.
She is a sweet kitty when she isn't attacking, she is an only cat and she is a year and a half old. I take very good care of her, she has never been abused, she isn't sick, there haven't been any major change lately, (this behavior has gone on for 8-9 months now) Any suggestions as to how I can get her to stop. This has been going on for so long now, and now that she uses her claws, I just can't continue to let her get away with it. I truly feel like she thinks this is the way to play. I may have taught her that by letting her playing with my fingers as a kitten, OH and the bed thing might be because when she was a kitten we played the 'wiggle your toes under the covers and Dori pounces' game. But we haven't done that for a year or so. How can I teach her this is not the way to play?
When Dori was little, I did used to play with her with my hands, wiggling my fingers etc. for her. I learned after visiting this site not to do it and stopped. It is not really my fingers she attacks though, it's just me.
I have been trying to pay attention and find out what is going on before she attacks. She attacks me every time I go to bed. If I get up and go to the bathroom and go back to bed during the night, she attacks me. If I take a nap, she attacks me. I can't have any part of my body out of the covers during the 1st 5 minutes or so I am in bed or she will bite me hard or scratch me. She even will attack my head. I have to cover up and wait for her to get bored and leave. I don't want to lock her out, because after she comes back she snuggles with me, and will sleep with me for the whole night.
I try to play with her so that she will get tired and not try to attack before bed, but any toy that I play with her with, she is only interested in attacking me. I play with a fishing pole toy, and instead of looking at the feather and bell at the end, she watches the movement of my arm swinging it and would rather attack that. I have scars all up my arms from her bites. She doesn't bite my bf or his son at all, only me.
She is a sweet kitty when she isn't attacking, she is an only cat and she is a year and a half old. I take very good care of her, she has never been abused, she isn't sick, there haven't been any major change lately, (this behavior has gone on for 8-9 months now) Any suggestions as to how I can get her to stop. This has been going on for so long now, and now that she uses her claws, I just can't continue to let her get away with it. I truly feel like she thinks this is the way to play. I may have taught her that by letting her playing with my fingers as a kitten, OH and the bed thing might be because when she was a kitten we played the 'wiggle your toes under the covers and Dori pounces' game. But we haven't done that for a year or so. How can I teach her this is not the way to play?