Reasons for cats biting human hands

1. Innate hunting habits

Cats are born with hunting habits. When raising it at home, if it cannot find prey, it will naturally treat you as prey and hunt it.

2. Tease you to play with it

When a cat is bored at home, it will also choose to run to your feet and bite you. In fact, this time is to remind you to take some time to play with it.

3. Take the opportunity to retaliate against you

If you treat the cat badly, the cat actually holds a grudge. Although you are its owner, it will not affect it. Take revenge on you.

4. Not familiar with the owner

When a cat has just entered a new home, its inner sense of security is still insufficient, and of course it will attack in self-protection.

Solutions for cats who like to bite people’s hands and feet

1. Prepare small toys that your cat likes. When the cat bites your hands, take out the small toys to tease the cat. Distract your cat's attention and let him play with his toys instead of your hands.

2. Prepare a small spray bottle with some water in it. When the cat bites your hand, take out the spray bottle and spray it on the cat’s face. Because the cat is afraid of water, this will make it flinch. .

3. Apply something bitter on your hands or your cat doesn’t like the taste. The main reason is that the cat is afraid of the bitter taste. Then when the cat wants to bite your hand, it will smell something it doesn’t like and will not bite it. .

4. If you want your cat to stop biting your fingers, don’t tease it with your fingers. Don’t let your cat develop the habit of playing with your fingers.

5. To some extent, the owner likes to tease the cat and like to let it bite its fingers, which will indulge in the formation of the cat's biting habit.

6. Cats that like to bite their fingers may have special reasons. For example, when a kitten has teeth and teeth, the cat likes to bite things in order to relieve the discomfort in the mouth.