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Andraste - female, mixed breed, 2yo, indoor cat, spayed - is being a handful. Now she wants to scratch the keys from my keyboard off, scratch the screen of my computer, and can spend all day seated in front of the screen.
I work from home and I need to work, so I carefully pick her up and put her on the ground. Whenever I do this, she scratches and bites like crazy. It's terribly hard to get her off me. I put her on the ground, she bites whatever part of my body is nearer her. I can see she's ANGRY. It hurts quite a bit, she's able to draw blood, I almost can't make her stop.
I tried to play more with her, but her energy NEVER ends and, even though sometimes she doesn't want her toys anymore, she goes back to her "new spot" in front of the screen. Every once in a while I stop whatever I'm doing and just talk to her, talk to her until I'm tired, but it only works for a couple of minutes, then she's off to scratch my stuff again.
I know it's all about attention: she never does that when I'm not looking, and when she's scratching something she keeps eye contact the whole time, like she's defying me. She wants me to spend even more time with her, but I'm ALWAYS home! We sleep together, eat together, I play with her everyday... I don't know what else can I do
I work from home and I need to work, so I carefully pick her up and put her on the ground. Whenever I do this, she scratches and bites like crazy. It's terribly hard to get her off me. I put her on the ground, she bites whatever part of my body is nearer her. I can see she's ANGRY. It hurts quite a bit, she's able to draw blood, I almost can't make her stop.
I tried to play more with her, but her energy NEVER ends and, even though sometimes she doesn't want her toys anymore, she goes back to her "new spot" in front of the screen. Every once in a while I stop whatever I'm doing and just talk to her, talk to her until I'm tired, but it only works for a couple of minutes, then she's off to scratch my stuff again.
I know it's all about attention: she never does that when I'm not looking, and when she's scratching something she keeps eye contact the whole time, like she's defying me. She wants me to spend even more time with her, but I'm ALWAYS home! We sleep together, eat together, I play with her everyday... I don't know what else can I do