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I've had cats all my life but my current one is doing something new that the others haven't done and I'm trying to figure out his reason.
He is a lovely 4 month old, so very gentle and has been surprisingly well behaved for a kitten so far. He even only scratched the furniture for a few days before he learned to scratch on his scratching post, it didn't take much shooing at all.
Now... he is occasionally grabbing our legs and attempting to bite a bit but his mouth is too small so he really is only pressing his teeth. The bit I don't understand is... he doesn't seem angry at all, nothing about his body language suggests he is upset. I'm leaning towards it maybe being some sort of wanting to play. The weird thing is he is very slow about it, so he isn't doing it in a frenzy of excitement. He just sort of comes around your leg and quite gently puts his front paws around your ankle and then sometimes presses his teeth against your leg.
So, we are discouraging him from doing this and I hope he gets over it quickly like everything else. It seems to mostly happen first thing in the morning so I am thinking maybe an invitation to play? At first we thought it was because he was hungry but he doesn't always do it before he is fed, sometimes it is after.
Other than this, he is very gentle and hasn't bitten or scratched anyone on purpose. And the vast majority of time he doesn't even go for a toy if it lands on or next to someone's foot (I find that restraint rather amazing!)
He is a lovely 4 month old, so very gentle and has been surprisingly well behaved for a kitten so far. He even only scratched the furniture for a few days before he learned to scratch on his scratching post, it didn't take much shooing at all.
Now... he is occasionally grabbing our legs and attempting to bite a bit but his mouth is too small so he really is only pressing his teeth. The bit I don't understand is... he doesn't seem angry at all, nothing about his body language suggests he is upset. I'm leaning towards it maybe being some sort of wanting to play. The weird thing is he is very slow about it, so he isn't doing it in a frenzy of excitement. He just sort of comes around your leg and quite gently puts his front paws around your ankle and then sometimes presses his teeth against your leg.
So, we are discouraging him from doing this and I hope he gets over it quickly like everything else. It seems to mostly happen first thing in the morning so I am thinking maybe an invitation to play? At first we thought it was because he was hungry but he doesn't always do it before he is fed, sometimes it is after.
Other than this, he is very gentle and hasn't bitten or scratched anyone on purpose. And the vast majority of time he doesn't even go for a toy if it lands on or next to someone's foot (I find that restraint rather amazing!)