Has your pet ever bite you?

My parents' Scottish Terrier bit me when I was very young, but it was my fault since I was annoying him.

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My cat gives me plenty of love bites.

I foster dogs and they are usually quite scared when they first arrive at your house, so I have been bitten many, many, many times by dogs.

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I think they are communicating that either they don't like what you're doing or they are over stimulated(especially cats) by whatever you are doing. The worst bite I ever received was from an iguana I had, he was very wild and I was putting him into the bathtub for a soak,I think it was just a natural instinct to bite me but that was the most painful bite I've ever experienced. It was like being cut by razor blades on both side of my thumb and it hurt and throbbed for days.
My husband was bit by one of our cats, the cat was stuck in plumbing and he bit my husband in fright. My husband wouldn't go to the clinic and the next day his hand and arm was so swollen because of infection, he had to go through a series of antibiotics, he could have lost his arm.

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I foster dogs too but the only dog that ever bit me was my rescue Labrador who had a terrible life before me and had to sadly be put to sleep as he had something wrong with his brain that the vet could do nothing about.

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I also got bitten very hard by my older Norwegian Forest Cat recently because I had brought my cat to the vet in the hood (across town from his home) and he was so upset, he's about 21 pounds, that he literally tore apart his carrier and busted out into traffic across the street and went into a homeless condemned lair. And He escaped into the yard.

So I spent about two days looking for him, which again when you have a cat that is lost they usually stay close to the buildings when they travel as they don't like to go out into open spaces, and you can usually find them within 2 or 3 doors of where you lost them because they quickly find a place to hide and then they get scared and then usually don't venture out for a while. They can stay hidden for up to 10 days before venturing out during the day. Which is why you want to go look for them right before dawn and also at night and call out for them and their names so they know that you're the friendly faces they can run to the cover of night or the cover off early morning. And it's important to go look for them within the first hours and also the first days because that's when you are most likely to find them because that's when they're most likely to be hidden and have not moved on at that point.

In any event so me and my friend who rescues cats and trap feral cats, so she has a lot of traps for feral cats, met me over there in the middle of the night at the condemned building in the yard where there were tons of trash and furniture (all kinds of things around) basically a junkyard, and located the cat with a flash light.

It took me awhile to get the cat probably about 3 hours but the cat went behind a small concrete building in between the building and a fence in a space about 5 inches and my friend blocked the one side of the building and then I was on the other side of the building and then I was trying to scruff my baby.

I don't normally scruff cats because I think it's cruel. But when you're trying to get ahold of a cat that might bite you they can whip around and bite you so you need to get control over them. That's basically the only time I really scruff a cat. So I got him and then he did manage with this 5 inches of space to whip around and start biting me and he just took his little jaw and just bore into my palm like 5 times blood splurting everywhere and he just clamped down. But you know what? I don't wasn't to lose my little buddy (who was just biting because he was discombobulated and confused and terrified) for the rest of his life so I just grabbed on to him held and held on to him.

So honestly animals they do bite for aggression but sometimes you know for fear. The other times that it can happen is when you're petting the back of their neck, especially male animals, that can trigger a reflex (or so I read) and not necessarily an aggressive trigger but kind of like a hyperactive trigger maybe even a sexual trigger and can result in a bite. Anyway if there's no injury done you know...I find little bites heal...

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I used to have a male Himalayan who sometimes if I was giving him a tummy rub he would grab my arm with his front paws and start clawing my arm with his hind legs while biting my hand.

I got a female white cross eyed tabby that does that to me. Very painful. It's hard to unlatch her. Your story makes me think it is a reflex response to tickling..

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