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Chester has been with me for about a month now, I still think he's the sweetest cat in the world, while the honeymoon stage is definitely over.
He is almost 6 years old and still has a ton of energy, and he is declawed. When I play with him, he's been fine, being that I keep a distance and throw little balls and play with strings.
The problem is with other people, my girlfriend has been over a few times, and attempted to play with him like she does with her other cats, (moving her hands all over the bed and making (usually) kitty friendly noises) the few times that she did this, Chester went into what I think is attack mode, squinting his eyes, and lunging and biting both of us HARD, like breaking the skin hard, and when we stopped and stood still (away from him) he came to us and continued "attacking".
My attempt to resolve this is to not let anyone try to play with him with their hands, but I'm nervous and not sure what to do because he gets like this at such random times and never when I'm alone with him. Also, should I not consider adopting other cats? Would he be likely to attack and hurt them?
To make a long story short, i've never seen this kind of behavior in cats, is it play? is it attack? and I'm not sure how to resolve it.
Thank you for reading this!!
He is almost 6 years old and still has a ton of energy, and he is declawed. When I play with him, he's been fine, being that I keep a distance and throw little balls and play with strings.
The problem is with other people, my girlfriend has been over a few times, and attempted to play with him like she does with her other cats, (moving her hands all over the bed and making (usually) kitty friendly noises) the few times that she did this, Chester went into what I think is attack mode, squinting his eyes, and lunging and biting both of us HARD, like breaking the skin hard, and when we stopped and stood still (away from him) he came to us and continued "attacking".
My attempt to resolve this is to not let anyone try to play with him with their hands, but I'm nervous and not sure what to do because he gets like this at such random times and never when I'm alone with him. Also, should I not consider adopting other cats? Would he be likely to attack and hurt them?
To make a long story short, i've never seen this kind of behavior in cats, is it play? is it attack? and I'm not sure how to resolve it.
Thank you for reading this!!