Can I hiss at my kitten?

Question

My kitten bites me and I sometimes hiss at him(8weeksold). Is that bad? Maybe he could be scared of me. I really want him to be a good cat when he grows up. And not have bad habits on biting people.

Answer 1

if you torment him he will be bad,love and play with him.he's a kitten and still learning

Answer 2

Oh Absolutely definately do if you wish to scare the dickens out of the little kitten for just doing what is natural for him. He will outgrow this on his own if you do not abuse and scare him. Would you want someone to hiss and bite you because you did something that was natural as a baby like spitting up a little after feeding? I don't think so and that would not stop you from spitting up. If the kitten is acting like a kitten then give it time to grow up unafraid and it will outgrow all of these pesky little kitten antics that, personally I find endearing. I know I will get my answer removed for all the thumbs downs I will get for phrasing my answer this way. I have had too much experience with kittens that went ferel due to people trying to scare the kitten antics out of a kitten. One girl that I had to remove the cat from her possession would bite the kitten for wanting to get away from her when she tried to dress the kitten up like a baby doll. She also wrapped a rubber band around the kittens tail to cut the circulation off because the kitten would not fit in a diaper. I hope that you see why I get so upset when someone wants to mishandle a kitten just for being a kitten. Sorry, please forgive me for the sarcastic reply but I just had a call from her and someone had let her get another kitten.

Answer 3

Your kitten is behaving quite naturally and practising his life long survival skills. He would normally be doing this with his brothers and sisters.

When he goes in too hard just squeal loudly like a kitten would and dont try to pull your hand away. This is what his siblings and he would do to let him know thats too hard. He should let go immediately.

Hissing at him is an agressive gesture and it might fire him up more

He sounds like a healthy bundle of fun, thats all and not in the right mood for fuss when its play time.

Wait until his exhausted himself playing and in a submissive mood then you can have all the fuss you want and he will just curl and lap it up.

He wont grow up aggressive becaue of this. Its normal kitten behaviour and he's learning to hunt, fight and take care of himself in the garden later.

Great to hear you have such a healthy and energetic kitten, your obviously taking good care of him.

Please get him vaccinated at 8 weeks old and neutured at 5 and a half months old, to keep him healthy.

God Bless you and your kitten.

Answer 4

They don't often know our skin isn't as tough as theirs, so they bite.

Hissing didn't work for me. I did what a mom cat does and lightly tap the top of their head (lightly! Try tapping your wrist to see how light your tap is) and doing that little stacato call the mom does when they want a kitten to quit it!

The call goes "Uhk uhk uhk!" You do three to five of these sounds, while looking at them, then stop and wait. It's like us saying no-no, only it's uh uh. ALL cats understand this call, you can get a full grown adult cat to stop cold from doing something--all of them learn this from their moms. It means STOP NOW!

Only do it three or five sounds in a row then stop. Don't say anything else. This is all the mom cat does, she doesn't side track the issue with meowing at them, they're expected to obey her. If they don't they get one more warning and that usually does it. If your kitten bites after two warnings, then get up and walk away. He'll learn real fast you meant it and that now you won't play anymore or even look at him for a few minutes.

Usually the words work all by themselves, so give them a try first. Don't hit your kitty, the light tap is ONLY a light tap and not all cats tap their kittens, but they ALL do the vocals to them.

Answer 5

Hiss as loud as you can back or you can also try pretending that you are hurt - both would happen within the litter with Mummy at the helm so mimic what she or his siblings would do after saying a firm NO. I have had to do the same thing and it was funny because he jumped back, sat down, and kept tilting his head - he did try again on one occassion and I repeated the same exercise again and he got the message - I found it hilarious actually, especially when he bit me really hard and I hissed at him that hard that all his fur and his ears blew back - he wasn't scared, he just looked like my boyf when I've screeched at him - slightly baffled with a look of "okay, I'll give you a wide berth for a while then"......

If you do choose the submissive approach that also works well because they know that there is something amiss with the hand that feeds and instincts tell them that they don't want to upset that particular hand.....the one that puts food in their bellys, loves them, etc.

Answer 6

Why would you want to hiss at an 8wk old kitten,?
Its 8weeks old for god sake,your not doing the poor mite any favours treating it like that.
The kitten is Playing as it would with its litter mates .I cant understand why you think its OK to hiss at the poor thing.Id suggest you re home it and go back to playing with your toys,This cat is NOT A TOY,
It angers me to hear things like that,And you expect the poor little thing to start liking you!!!!!!

Answer 7

NO! it can make your cat more aggressive and it inncurrages it to become violent in the future but if you do get bit by your kitten wat two thing work for me is a spray bottle when you are playing with your cat or whenever it bites you or just when your with your cat. if it bites you spray it just once and then when your with you cat put it in view so he or she can see it so that they get the point of wat will happen if he or she bites you if it still bites try again if you have been dooing this for about a month and still no improvement tap its head but not to hard just softly tap the top of its head or on its nose. tell me how it works at [e-mail] for you it has worked for every cat i have had good luck sincerily Sidney

Answer 8

Why would you hiss at your cat? All kittens bite - they are teething!! Just tell him "no" and get him some toys.

Answer 9

The best way to make your kitten sociable and not bite is to let it learn through play with his brothers. i think they may have been separated too early. I have a cat who had lost his brothers and mother too early, and never learned not to bite.
Hissing when he does sth. bad is perhaps a good idea, but generally whatever you do when he is play-biting roughly is just making the excitement more fun for the kitten, and he does worse. I think you need to ignore him and just not accept what he does (give him another toy instead, put him in another room, etc.). I have a new kitten now who pretty much learned not to bite people this way, but it isalso possible that she learned by playing with my older cat, who keeps biting her hard whenever she does something naughty to him. If you try to punish her though you will have opposite results, because a. she will be more excited and will play even rougher, b. if you bite her or hit her like my cat bites her, it is animal abuse really, you wouldn't do it that strong, plus she would be angry because you are human, with a cat she accepts it as play.

Answer 10

It is just being a normal kitten. If it were still in with its litter mates and they were play fighting then the one who got bitten may well hiss so no you won't do it any harm just don't do it too loudly as you may scare the little mite! Just enough for a warning.

Answer 11

It's fine, it's like a reaction, another thing you could do it blow gently at the cat eye to eye. It shows that it's done something wrong. Just because the cat is like this at a young age doesn't reflect what it'll be when it grows up, its still very little. Hope this helps! =]