My cat is tearing apart my nose!

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Ok she's not really tearing apart my nose, but it does have a few scratches on it now. Her name is Cleo, and at night, or very early morning she will lay with me and sleep next to me in bed, but recently she has begun biting my nose. At first it was little "love bites," but on Saturday night, she caused some damage. I had to pry her mouth off me. This morning when she tried to bite on me, I pushed her away and she went and laid with our other cat.

I've read the aggression articles, and they just don't seem to fit her behavior. What do I do?
 

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One of my kittens enjoyed biting my nose too in the middle of the night. You can keep a bottle filled with coins near the bed and make a loud sound to scare her off whens he does it (to much work and noise for me at 3am). What worked for me was to blow really hard on her especially in the face. Cats don't like air blown on them. Sometimes I could blow on her right before she was about to bite and would eliminate the bite and not wake me up to much in the process.

Eventually she'll give up. This behavior last about 3-4 weeks with my kitten, and only a week after I started blowing on her. She learned pretty quickly. But it is usually a phase thing.
 
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Great idea...I'll try blowing in her face...thank you!
 

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Munch got his name because he loved to munch on people's noses while they were asleep. I got into the habit of sleeping with the comforter over my head until he grew out of it.
 

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m). What worked for me was to blow really hard on her especially in the face. Cats don't like air blown on them. Sometimes I could blow on her right before she was about to bite and would eliminate the bite and not wake me up to much in the process.

Eventually she'll give up. This behavior last about 3-4 weeks with my kitten, and only a week after I started blowing on her. She learned pretty quickly. But it is usually a phase thing.[/quote]

I will strongly disagree, if you blow in the face on some kittens they will attack you. I would try this procedure out first with your kitten, when you are awake and able to move quickly. Be sure to do this in a way that when you blow in her face you can draw your head away quickly, because as I said, many cats and kittens will attack and not withdraw
 

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Harley does that too, except its usually not too hard, but sometimes it hurts, usually if I tell him NO and pull away quickly or snap my fingers, he understands that it was wrong-he hasn't been doing it much lately, me and my nose are happy!


Now he just gives kisses instead of bites, thank goodness!
 
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