Hi Everyone, this is a thread about my 10 month old Savannah x Bengal moggie kitten (can I still call him that?) and his PICA and play biting issues.
I did not know about PICA until today and I have come to realize that my cat has this problem. He also really likes to pretend my hands are another cat buddy of his.
I kinda liked rough housing with Balthazar as he grows up, and feel like he prefers to play with me that way than with me through toys. Dont get me wrong he likes playing with toys but he is such a little brat and always need a new toy or he becomes tired of it very quickly. With exception to a pair of wool gloves which he always loves to play fetch with. (side note, he use to always bring me the gloves and wait patiently for me to throw them but more recently he has brought them to me, i throw, he comes back and keeps the gloves in his mouth and growls at me. His ears aren't pinned back so I think he's just playing but I don't like it! I want him to just be polite and patient with his fetch time)
Other toys like the laser pointer and various snake, wand, feather, and mice toys are all fun for a few days and then he's over them. I now know it's a bad habit to keep him play biting with my hand, he often likes to go for my wrists, especially since my GF really hates when he bites and gets scared although he never draws blood from the bites I can only assume they will get stronger and cause pain as he matures.
I saw someone in a previous thread link to the amnesty wildlife sanctuary website for biting issues but the links are all down, can anyone please go into further details to stop his biting habits?
Also please let me know about the PICA problem, he is always biting plastic bags and I recently got some silk vines to put out on my balcony, they look really nice but he likes the leaves, doesn't care for the flowers though. He also has vomited a few times in the past few months, don't know if this is from him eating cockroaches or a change in his diet when I switched him from trader joes food to blue harvest's wildcat food with no carbs (although it is dry). I also feed him the frozen raw pellets from PetSmart with the dry food.
Sorry for the bombardment of info and questions, just kinda scattered thoughts at this point as I worry about him having problems down the line. I'd be happy to answer any additional questions or add pictures of him if you want...
I did not know about PICA until today and I have come to realize that my cat has this problem. He also really likes to pretend my hands are another cat buddy of his.
I kinda liked rough housing with Balthazar as he grows up, and feel like he prefers to play with me that way than with me through toys. Dont get me wrong he likes playing with toys but he is such a little brat and always need a new toy or he becomes tired of it very quickly. With exception to a pair of wool gloves which he always loves to play fetch with. (side note, he use to always bring me the gloves and wait patiently for me to throw them but more recently he has brought them to me, i throw, he comes back and keeps the gloves in his mouth and growls at me. His ears aren't pinned back so I think he's just playing but I don't like it! I want him to just be polite and patient with his fetch time)
Other toys like the laser pointer and various snake, wand, feather, and mice toys are all fun for a few days and then he's over them. I now know it's a bad habit to keep him play biting with my hand, he often likes to go for my wrists, especially since my GF really hates when he bites and gets scared although he never draws blood from the bites I can only assume they will get stronger and cause pain as he matures.
I saw someone in a previous thread link to the amnesty wildlife sanctuary website for biting issues but the links are all down, can anyone please go into further details to stop his biting habits?
Also please let me know about the PICA problem, he is always biting plastic bags and I recently got some silk vines to put out on my balcony, they look really nice but he likes the leaves, doesn't care for the flowers though. He also has vomited a few times in the past few months, don't know if this is from him eating cockroaches or a change in his diet when I switched him from trader joes food to blue harvest's wildcat food with no carbs (although it is dry). I also feed him the frozen raw pellets from PetSmart with the dry food.
Sorry for the bombardment of info and questions, just kinda scattered thoughts at this point as I worry about him having problems down the line. I'd be happy to answer any additional questions or add pictures of him if you want...
