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  • Celeste is a greedy little cat, and although I am grateful she doesn't wake me up demanding to be fed, once I'm out of bed in the morning it's deafening MIAOW MIAOW MIAOW until she gets her wet food (she always has dry food out, but she wants what she wants), batting my legs as I walk and reaching a crescendo if I go in the kitchen. This is all repeated at 6pm when it's dinner time. Recently she's bitten me on the leg as I've either been opening the can in the kitchen or decanting the food into her bowl in the other room, and I'm really keen for her to stop biting me! Any suggestions? Water spray? Paint my legs with something foul tasting?

  • Don't reinforce it. Let her do it but don't feed her. Or feed her at different times when she doesn't bite you.

    It'll take a bit, but animals just re do whatever worked, when they try to communicate with us.
    If that doesn't work or gets them something else they didn't want, they'll stop doing it.

  • I really hope so, it's quite annoying and she's not actually hungry as there's always dry food in her bowl. I think she's quite smart (I taught her to play fetch!) but my boyfriend maintains that she's not very bright, so we'll see if she can be trained.

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