[masters]

Hey Forums!

We are here looking for advice for our special needs kitten that we rescued. He has his own website, www.sirnoggin.com, and we are trying to figure out how to build a helmet for him. I posted about this in the Health forum if anybody has any ideas, it would be great. We are first time cat owners and have more questions than I can even think of right now, so this will be a very helpful place.

A couple questions that come to mind are about scratching & biting. He doesn't seem to mind the spray bottle and when I put tobasco sauce on my arms to try to trick him out of biting me he liked the taste of it. Any other tricks to help him continue his slow progress learning not to bite me? Or anything a lot of people do wrong that cats think is attacking them. He can be very snuggly but then all of a sudden he can be very aggressive from time to time. When we treat the cyst on his head, we have to wear gloves because he gets very mad when we do that, but the rest of the time he is extremely gentle with my wife but just seems to want to wrestle with me. He was found in traffic at 5 weeks, extremely thin. The vet thinks he was likely abandoned by humans (as opposed to a stray litter) because of the cyst on his head. He is somewhere around 11 weeks now and he is biting less hard but still biting, and he will still nip at my face if he is unhappy with me. I don't know if there's different things to be expected for kittens who didn't have their mothers long enough? We are doing our best for this guy. He certainly hasn't had it easy.

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[Joy]

Perhaps try citrus in the spray bottle & even maybe hiss at him as this is what his mum would do. I just read your other post & what a lovely kitten.

[CatsRU]

Hi and welcome. Thank you for caring for this special needs furry.

You could also use "time out" when he bites you.

[Doreen]

I agree with Joy that you have to treat him like his mother would, hiss at him loudly (never hit him), and stop playing immediately. Move away and put a stop to what he is doing to let him know it is unacceptable. You have to be gentle with him because of his condition, but he has to learn at an early age what is unacceptable behavior. Sometimes blowing at them also works, or a loud "No!", he can tell from your tone of voice when he is being naughty. Good luck with him.

[Heather Sharada]

As has already been stated....hiss or time out. I also just read your other thread....and he looks a cheeky little monkey.

[masters]

Wow, thanks for all the great suggestions. I hissed at him today and blew on his face and he looked at me for a moment like, "no! Who taught you that! Not cool!" and then walked away and attacked a toy. Perfect!

[Doreen]

Hehehe, sending the beautiful little one a gentle chin scritch. I hope the vets can do something for him.