Cat teething me?!!

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I say teething because it's not a nasty bite. She just very gently opens her mouth and carefully bites. It never hurts, usually on my elbow but this morning she started on my elbow and moved up towards my hand.
She was a wild/abandoned cat and I've had her about 12-18 months. She was at first untouchable now if I sit on the floor and call her she comes and rubs all over me purring and I can stroke her but she does a lot of tail shaking and this biting thing.
I never put any pressure on her, she comes to me and never the other way round. I never try to pick her up so I don't think she's unhappy with human contact but her behaviour is a bit weird!
 
poiuytrewq said:
I say teething because it's not a nasty bite. She just very gently opens her mouth and carefully bites. It never hurts, usually on my elbow but this morning she started on my elbow and moved up towards my hand.
She was a wild/abandoned cat and I've had her about 12-18 months. She was at first untouchable now if I sit on the floor and call her she comes and rubs all over me purring and I can stroke her but she does a lot of tail shaking and this biting thing.
I never put any pressure on her, she comes to me and never the other way round. I never try to pick her up so I don't think she's unhappy with human contact but her behaviour is a bit weird!
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How old is she?
 
My cat does a similar thing. He's never drawn blood and it is very, very gentle but I tend to nicely distract him by making a fuss of him that means that he moves his head away. I think it's a grooming behaviour as they run fur tangles through their teeth to comb them out, but I don't have fur so he's sort of trying to run a chunk of flesh through his teeth which doesn't really work.
 
Ok that makes sense, I used to be a bit scared she was about to sink her teeth in but as you say it's very gentle. I didn't want to tell her off or anything as it's taken a long time to get to this stage! I just felt sorry for the manky skinny old thing at first, now she's really beautiful and very well groomed herself so perhaps that's it!
 
both my very affectionate cats who I've had since they were kittens do this to me and each other - she loves you and wants to groom you ! :)

The boy can bite really hard when he's happy - he gets a little overstimulated.
 
One of mine some times bites when having a fuss. She went through a phase of doing it a lot, then it dropped off. Recently commented she’s not done it for a while but just come back off hols and she’s at it again - she’s just enjoying the fuss!
 
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