We adopted a two year old cat just over two weeks ago, she seemed to settle in straight away and wasn't bothered about our children making noise etc. We really like her, she's very playful and wants to spend time with us. But she has scratched both DC couple of times now. When she wants to play she stalks us and plays with our hands. This is not too much of an problem as we redirect her to toys.
The biggest problem we are having is that DC might be petting her and when she's had enough she scratches or tries to bite. I'm really struggling with this, I'm desperate for this to work but I don't want my children to be full of scratch marks constantly. She doesn't scratch or bite too hard but DD is getting upset over it.
Is there anything I can do or is this just doomed to fail? 😥
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mummymermaid · 17/09/2018 00:09
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