Carpet Sharks & Their Shark Bites: Biting Cats

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Hi, I’m Dr. Lauren! Read my introduction to larn much astir maine and my 2 adventurous cats, Pancake and Tiller.

Love biters. No, not that kind…cat emotion biters.

We’ve each astir apt met them: the loveable feline that gets excited, past bites you. Or the 1 that comes up to you and gets a pat, and gives you a gentle bite.

Tiller is 1 of the world’s large emotion biters. In fact, it’s acold much apt you’ll get a emotion wound than a pur if you interact with her. Even Pancake is not immune- a fewer licks, and past a bully bite. No wonderment Pancake nary longer shares the furniture with Tiller-zilla.

But beware the carpet shark…

And Tiller is not alone.

I’ve met a assortment of antithetic types of cats successful my work: canine cats, radical cats, feline cats, and biters. Clients often travel successful saying: my feline bites me. You mightiness deliberation that radical are talking astir a feline that is an assertive oregon fearfulness biter, but that is seldom the case. Most clients that speech astir their biter cats, notation to those cats that intermittently speech a affable pat for an arsenic affable bite. They don’t interruption the skin, they origin astonishment much than pain, and they are sometimes adorable, erstwhile they bash it slowly, gently, and conscionable bent there.

But conscionable wherefore bash cats bash this familiar, gentle, persistent biting?

To beryllium honest, nary 1 truly knows! If lone cats could talk… But present are a fewer theories:

• Mother/kitten instinct and nursing: It’s imaginable that this instinct which involves oral stimulation by the kitten connected the queen on with the merchandise of bonding hormones, extends into biting, successful big life, and the big cat’s quality family.
• Biting is simply a mode that galore feline emotions are expressed – not conscionable anger. Sexual desires, play, societal boundaries and much are each developed via biting. Potentially cats are utilizing the biting to pass much than we realize?
• The vomeronasal organ: In cats, the extortion of their rima holds the vomeronasal organ, which is capable to detect assorted pheromones. Pheromones are chemic signatures that tin beryllium “smelled” by this organ (humans person each but mislaid theirs). It’s imaginable that biting puts a feline into a amended presumption to usage their vomeronasal organ to “flesh out” (pardon the pun) the concern erstwhile interacting with acquainted humans.

Who volition emotion wound astatine immoderate opportunity!

But, successful the end, we simply don’t know. Tiller volition stay the household “carpet shark” and her “shark bites” volition stay a amusive and endearing information whenever we traverse up oregon downstairs. Such is the hazard of owning cats.

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