i have a cat toy right outside my bedroom door (i keep hall way door(to the kitchen an rest of house) shut at night, a the ktty tray for their pee and poo, and a string tower scratching toy for them to play with... very morning SMoochy will wait then run past me on purpose, driving in the bottom of the scratching tower then stands up and scratch the tower of strings, showing off!...he does it often. also time to time he'd do same on the carpet mat in lounge which not supposed to be for him id 'say NO, he's stop quickly 0- like he KNOWS, just playing at me, cheeky bugger that cat...
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Botti is half right...they not too bright, but sometimes, this Smoochy arent that dumb .... oh well he's a siamese, so um thats probably why, they are the smartest of the felines... they even know sit, up, off, bed, out, come, on commands, even come, wait follow me to neighbours houses...they actually follow me on commands like dogs!!...but not a 'sit' like dogs, not quite there i mean sit 'like come here sit' they jump up knowing they can curl and snuggle next to me while i watch tv or something...
but as for biting...train them out of it early!!,,,but do get them a toy, experiement which...
crumbled papers for them to 'play hunt' works well too (they do that), and it means they know not to touch fiddle with other things like my pen and rubber, batteries (and they do Steal it when im not watching...!)...now and then id find it missing for a month then its under a sofa that they pushed it under too far for them to reach it anymore while playing grrrr...but they are really hard cases and fun cats...
but do try experience show, with clear what ok to bite what Not Ok bite words like to dogs wont work too well with moggy cats...
cheers,
ps love this thread...