dealing with kitty

Chiana is adorable but a handful. I asked for some suggestions and did get a small water bottle to spray her when she started biting things.. especially computer cables and cords. I think cats have no concept of what punishment is, well, this cat anyways.

Here is how she reacts. She gets sprayed, so then she goes under the couch.. and goes into hunting mode... looks to see if you are watching then pounces on the cables, then runs away again. I've also tried doing this in bed when she pounces on my hand as if to attack it. She just tries to attack the water bottle instead. lol.

Now, it may seem that she is a devil-cat, but actually she's very soft and cute and cuddly. What I've found works well when she is trying to bite is to pick her up... turn her on her back.. let her nibble her own tail a bit... just to distract her for a moment..and then start gently rubbing her hind paws. Well... she just falls into kitty heaven... she stops everything and leans back and gets really quiet.. sometimes she purrs.. and often just falls asleep... It's like I've found her kitty g-spot... she finds it quite pleasurable. At first I thought this was just a fluke..but I've done it at least 5-6 times now.. and each time I've gotten her to completely calm down and softens up.

She also likes to suckle my arm.. or the top of my chest.. or sometimes the crack at my underarm. She'll come and climb me and then nuzzle.. and I start to hear the purrr... purrr.. and the slurp! slurp! .. her eyes close and she gets very into it. She looks so young like that. I pet her softly and she usually ends up going to sleep.


Now, next step is trying to figure out how exactly to take pictures of her and have her stay still.

New Family Member

Here is our newest family member. We've had her since the last 2 weeks.



We have called Chiana. She is named for the lovely, very feline, very grey, very feisty girl in Farscape . As you can see the only other color than grey that you can see is the interior of her mouth which is pink. This is just like our cat.

I've never owned a cat before and it's quite an experience. To start off with, she is very loving.. and sleeps with us all the time... she purrs and often even suckles on my skin as I believe she had to leave her mom a little too early. There was nothing to be done though, the mom was a stray that friends picked up and tended to while she had her babies, but she was also sick.

This cat seems to have multiple personalities... one moment she is loving, the next she wants to chow down on my toes... My biggest problem has been keeping her away from my computer cables. She is fascinated by them. Dolly told me she thinks they are snakes and it's instinctive. I am going to try and find something that she'll not like but that will not be harmful to her to deter her from doing it. She already chomped through my microphone cord and I had to splice the wires back together. I've heard that there is a product called bitter apple spray. I'll try and find some in a pet store here, if not, I'll try and get it online. I'm not happy about the cable chewing because, of course, not only could she ruin my computer and accessories, but also because I'm very afraid that she may also electrocute herself. Everything with a cord or wire seems to interest her.

She is the sweetest thing though, don't you agree?

Dolly also told me to put aluminum foil where you didn't want her going or chewing. Since she is so attracted to the coils of cables behind my computer, I got down on all fours (now, who's the animal! ;-) ) and put up sheets of tin foil taped at the back and underneath my desk. She doesn't seem too afraid and goes there all the time. The foil reaches to the ground but I've taped it there... so she can't get behind without making a bunch of noise... The deterent seems to be that I can hear when she's there and get her out before she does too much damage.

I know some of you have cats... I would really appreciate any tips and hints you could give me because this seems like a hopeless cause. HELP!