By the way your comments read here…I think most of you have toxoplasmosis. :P especially if you have 16 cats, come on that isn’t healthy for them or you!

By the way your comments read here…I think most of you have toxoplasmosis. :P

My cat was taken from his mom too early and wasn’t raised properly. He loves cuddles, purrs and drools and then bites me out of nowhere. He bites me so hard I have to pull his jaws apart to free my chin, or nose. And he just continues purring and cuddling. I love him.

My cat Rascal was found in a bush by me in 2007. She would hiss and slap away everyone but me, so I took her straight home when I could not locate her mother. My mom was hesitate to take her in since we had a cat, but my elder cat simply took the kitten as her own and claimed the little kitten as hers. But Rascal took me as a secondary mother. She would snuggle in my shirt. Purring so loud and aggressively. And then “love bite” my nips on accident. She knows when it’s snuggle time and she drools in excitement every time, and nips me very gently during it.

I try not to stop her, no matter how discomforted I am. Because I take it as “I love you” and welcome the affection she gives me. She is still warming up to my husband, I try not to force her to accept him, but we are taking big steps, as today she sat on the couch with him. A few inches away. My husband did not dare pet her, but gently extended his hand for her to sniff. And that was it but he gets so jealous when I’m getting love bites. He wants the love. Lol

Yes, my female cat gives me love bites when she wants me to stay with her. She also allows me to pet and groom her stomach. In addition, she lets me know if another cat comes into our backyard and then we both go outside to protect “our” territory. She considers me her hunting partner and co-protector of the entire territory. Sometimes, she actually obeys me when I tell her something and she loves to talk to me.
Great cat. The neighbors dog who came on our front lawn is scared of her. She got her back up and went at his face because he came to close.
She has all her claws. Cats should NEVER be de-clawed.

My gorgeous cat Dennis, now one years old was rescued by me along with his sister and brother at about three weeks of age. I have sadly lost Rodney who was a gorgeous little boy who would happily suckle away at my finger and touch my face adoringly, Beryl, his sister still likes to suckle on my fingers and Dennis never got the hang of suckling he loves to gently bite me – often the end of my nose and purrs all the time and he also likes to groom me. It’s definitely love, I reckon it’s because they were so young when they came to me having lost their mum. Cats are such wonderful creatures, each with their own little quirks of character.

My 5 month old cat, Yum Yum, always gives me love bites when she cuddles up with me and I pet her. My bf brought her home after she wandered into his place of work. She was an absolute sweetheart to everyone there so he brought her home. She seems really happy to be in a loving home.

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My cat definitely gives me love bites. When I lie down to rest, sometimes she would start making bread on my belly while purring then moving up to my chest staring right into my eyes. Then climbs up tp my face and bites it super gently that it tickles a bit. At first i found it scary cuz the face she gave me was really intense, the stare.. her eyes are just too big and round staring right into my eyes in 15cm distance. Now i just find it super cute.. and worried cuz my cat is too attached to me. She sleeps right beside my head everyday and gets stress during the hours I’m at school ㅠㅜ

So good to.hear abouts cats being so.well treated!
My Angel’s name is Bridget abd I.love her so.VERY MUCH!
AND she.lets me know she loves me too!
I never had a cat so.demonstrative:-)

I have a beautiful black cat named Boo, I adopted him from the humane society about 4 years ago and he’s my baby. He gives me “love bites” all the time, but he’ll nibble until he gets a small pieces of skin and then bites harder, resulting in a pinching feeling. Also, when he gives me “love bites” he’ll start twisting his head while he’s biting me. During all of this he’s purring and is completely relaxed. I’m wondering, how do I get him to bite more gently? Because his “love bites” tend to hurt!

My singleton bottle-fed cat is now 2 years old. He bites and breaks the skin. I don’t think it’s love bites. I don’t know what to do. I have bruises and scars from all the “love bites”. Even on my face!

We have triplets that my husband rescued. We had to bottle feed them because they were so young. The smallest of the 3 is Mogwai. She likes to nuzzle her way under my husband’s t-shirt when he’s sitting in the recliner. Then she will bite his belly. Not sure what that means. His belly is hairy, so we thought it might remind her if her momma.

I have a cat we found 5 years ago & decided to keep him, he was full of fleas & soaking wet, well long story short, he rubs & head butts & love nips but only does it to me, I’m the only one that feeds waters & cleans the litter box, he lets other people pet him but I’m the only one he does this stuff to, he’s a great cat, his name is Clyde, how can I send a picture of him

I have a cat we found 5 years ago & decided to keep him, he was full of fleas & soaking wet, well long story short, he rubs & head butts & love nips but only does it to me, I’m the only one that feeds waters & cleans the litter box, he lets other people pet him but I’m the only one he does this stuff to, he’s a great cat, his name is Clyde, how can I send a picture of him

My little rescue guy tends to curl up near my neck, give me a nose nip and stretches out a paw to touch my face before falling asleep. He’s the sweetest. He never nips in anger, just before nappy time.

Of our two current cats, the male (neutered) is the one with the “problem”….just recently he (at 9 years of age!) began for the first time to nibble and bite us.

These start gentle but then become “real”….ie, they do break the skin.

The thing that is strange is this an entirely new behavior for him, and nothing else in our lives has changed.

He’ll nibble my forearm, to the point that it breaks the skin a bit, and leaves a mark, and ditto with the “play” biting. We had no choice but to tell him “no” sharply and remove him from our laps.

No idea how to “positively reinforce” stopping this or any other behavior!

(It has pretty much stopped, in the last 2 months).

We have a rescue kitten, a domestic short hair), who was found in a storm drain, wet, muddy and poopy. We thought he was about 6-8 weeks old (he weighed 1.4 pounds), but the vet said he was 3-4 months old as his molars were coming in! He will never be a large cat as his dietary needs were not met before we got him. He loves to wrap himself around my neck and nibble on my ear lobes. His name is Li’l Guy and he is the sweetest kitten ever.

We have two Siamese ragdoll litter mates, now 4 years old. The male, POOH is a 20lb bundle of love and the female, PEENIE is a 9 lb sweetie. They sleep with us, eat with us, and are on our laps constantly and understand everything we say. When POOH is cuddled, he smiles and sticks his teeth out and PEENIE gives gentle love nips that never hurt.
They look Siamese with huge blue eyes but have the ragdoll temperment,and are like little humans in fur coats!

My neighbour’s cat gives me love bites but,he tends to go overboard and try to use his back teeth to take a munch out of my finger.He is a sweetheart but,sometimes I wish he didn’t love me so much.My cats just nibble because their love isn’t so desperate and full of the fear of abandonment.

I have several kitties that give “love nips.” TwoFace is a little old lady of 13 who likes to wake me with hand licks & nips! The name? She is a torture with half calico & half black face.

We have 16 cats & some of them give Love Bites but never to hard so no need for us to discourage this behavior it doesn’t hurt & let’s us know we are loved & that’s the most important thing..Carol G

I have a 17 year old female cat named Kissy. from the time she was a kitten she was always licking her siblings and me. Thus the name Kissy. Her “kisses always include a bite at the end of her licking session. Her favorite place to lick me is on my nose up to my forehead and she always bites the tip of my nose before she’s done. It can be uncomfortable but she’s such a sweetheart I let it go. She never leaves a mark.😁

I just got a little nipper for Christmas. He’s about 6-8 months old, Ziggy was a rescue seems to be very high strung very high energy. I think he loves my husband more because he snuggles with him. He always puts his head right under my husband chin and Ziggy hugs him. Me I get the toe licking in the morning when I put my feet on the floor then he nips me. The past new days he has been better he licks the top of my toes then walks away. This kitten has a huge personality!