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How to stop kitten from attacking my hair

Kittens attack human hair because they mistake swinging hair or bangs for moving prey. This behavior can lead to painful scratches on the face and head, disrupting bonding and causing stress for everyone in the household.

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

  1. 1
    Tie up hair
  2. 2
    Pull back bangs with hair clips
  3. 3
    Play with the kitten to distract them
  4. 4
    Wear a bonnet
  5. 5
    Using baby gates
  6. 6
    Administering gabapentin to sedate the cat
  7. 7
    scolding the cat and saying no
  8. 8
    ignoring the cat and changing rooms
  9. 9
    closing the cat inside a room for 10 minutes until it calms down
  10. 10
    playing with the cat in multiple daily sessions using rods, plushies, and balls
  11. 11
    spoiling them with wet food, toys, and time
  12. 12
    purchasing dry food and letting them have something hard to bite
  13. 13
    mixing dry food with wet food

In their words

Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.

“at one point there was plenty of times they would bite hard.”source ↗

xPython7 · r/cats · 6 upvotes

“He’s a kitten but he’s come up behind me and clawed my face pretty good because he sees my bangs. How can I get him to stop?”source ↗

Why_does_this · r/cats · 1 upvotes

“Hello, my orange cat is destroying my arms. He is 4 months old, But I found him when he was 1.5 months.”source ↗

“He bite me so hard that I bleed, I have a lot of scratch in my arms due to his teeth.”source ↗

“And specially in the night (not every night), but 2 Times for weeks), sometimes when i am in the bed he bites me running for the home.”source ↗

“I tried to scold him, and say “No” and ignore him changing room, I tried close him inside a room for 10 minutes until it calms down. I tried to ignore him and stop me, but he continues… It doesn’t work… sometimes after he bites me, turn his ears and kicks me…”source ↗

Express-Dog2354 · r/cats · 1 upvotes

“She attacks the puppy every chance she gets, if he’s napping on the floor, if he’s having crate time.”source ↗

“And now she started peeing outside the litter box.”source ↗

“It’s stressing everyone out”source ↗

beepergarvey · r/puppy101 · 1 upvotes

Where this came up

r/catsr/puppy101behaviorcatsdogspets

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