Bite Me!...No, Don't!

Trying to get Jack to stop biting me has been an ongoing problem. Like I said before, I tried giving him a time out in his carrier, but he thwarted me by going in there on his own and going to sleep, to show me I could lock him in there and it wouldn't bother him in the least.

Then I tried kissing him every time he bit me. When he'd bite me, I'd pick him up, and smother him with kisses until he struggled to get away.

Finally, I took the advice of a friend, that I was hesitant to do, and I started squirting him with water. It's not something I really enjoy doing. Jack's not a dumb cat. He only tries to bite me when I'm not anywhere near the water bottle. I can't squirt him afterwards, as he might not know what I was squirting him for. The few times I've used it I've sort of threatened him with it. I'll squirt it in the air to demonstrate what the bottle does and he's squint like I squirted him and I tell him if he bites me that's what he's going to get.

The end result is nothing has worked. It doesn't matter what I do, Jack is going to try and bite me. Jack is not a licker, he's a biter. At this point I've just decided to stop trying to break Jack of it. If I love him, I have to accept him as he is. A few times I've actually put my hand out so he could bite it and he hasn't. Maybe if I stop fighting him he'll stop.

To be fair to Jack, he doesn't really bite you. He nibbles on you, which could be part of him still teething, since he's still just a baby. It's just that he has very sharp teeth and it hurts a bit when he wants to nibble on your hand.