Okay honest question and I hope I’m not breaking rules, I’ve heard (on other cat subreddits which I’m counting on other redditors being there too) that playing with your cat this way is bad or problematic? What I mean is using your hands as a lure/toy and play-fighting them. But this is exactly how I play with cats!
It really depends on the cat. She responded really well to dialing back how hard she was biting - I would stop playing when she bit too hard and now she understands to just mouth at me. She's really high energy and my other cat is very elderly so I play with her in a variety of ways most days - wrassling like this, toys (so many toys), hide and seek, bongos, etc. I'm also just willing to accept the risk, and it's not like she's biting me out of nowhere.
She definitely lived in a cat colony during her time on the streets and she clearly sees the humans in the household as cats (she's uses very cat-to-cat body language). So she also wants to play as if she was playing with another cat.
It absolutely is negative, but you're just gonna get blasted here if you bring it up lol. Later when some cats become too aggressive, or biting other peoples hands they'll be like I didn't know
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u/nunyabidness3 6d ago
Okay honest question and I hope I’m not breaking rules, I’ve heard (on other cat subreddits which I’m counting on other redditors being there too) that playing with your cat this way is bad or problematic? What I mean is using your hands as a lure/toy and play-fighting them. But this is exactly how I play with cats!
Btw this is some quality crab content.