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I can sympathize with the situations discussed here. (Newbie, so I apologize if I am repeating something said somewher else.)

I was going to post my question separately but it relates to the biting/attacking stuff I've read here. Our cat is front declawed and about 4 1/2 months old. He is going in for his "fix" next week, but he has demonstrated some odd behavior towards our 6 year old daughter. For some reason he finds attacking her legs and head--when she's sitting on the couch, for example--to be great fun. I have tried to tell my daughter to stick up for herself by yelling or moving towards him, but she hasn't caught on yet. My wife and I are relatively safe as is our 8 year old son.

I feel bad thinking that his operation might "help" the sitaution but I am also realistic. If this is just his temperament then we need to decide whether we can have the cat in our house at all, and that is a painful decision. The kids have a cat who is older, and female, at their dad's house who is also declawed and fixed and she never demonstrates the same behavior, according to the kids. It's all cat-to-cat I know, but they don't understand why "our" kitty has to be this way. What was once playful and fun is more now dangerous especially when blood is drawn.

Thanks for reading.

 

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I did read at another cat website that ignroing a cat--sometimes for a week or two--can cure him/her of biting behavior.

 

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I thought we were doing pretty well with the biting lately. The cat has had his operation and after a week he is somewhat calmer, although he relapsed and attacked my daughter yesterday. The vet said give him two weeks for the hormones to move out of his system. I may not have that long since the cat jumped on the kitchen table today and knocked off some flowers (no vase broken). My wife called to say she is at the end of her rope. Any advice now on table jumping cats?