'She instantly charged him and latched onto the oven mitt, bunny kicking his mitted hand into submission, purring up a storm the whole time': A couple's playful kitten was obsessed with monching their feet, until she discovered the joy of oven mitt WWE

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    My husband and I adopted a cat back in the beginning of January. She is the first cat either of us have owned, but I did enough research to be comfortable in my knowledge of cat care/needs. The shelter
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    said she was a year but my vet is doubtful that she's more than 10-11 months so still a kitten.
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    She is very playful and sweet. She loves to cuddle before bed with purring and biscuits. She likes to wake me up in the same way. When I get
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    home from work, it's 20mins of petting and cuddles because she is so affectionate. I spend time brushing her when this happens so it's actually more like 30-40mins.
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    She gets at least 30- 45mins of worm toy (wand toy with a fuzzy worm attachment) and is often panting like a dog at the end of a play session. This is when I end
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    things because she will absolutely keep going and is full of beans. She will randomly come and attack our feet by "hunting". It's totally playful and she's not trying to hurt us but those little fangs are sharp!
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    Saying "No!" or shaking her off doesn't work as she will attack the other foot instead. This behaviour happens randomly throughout the day when she is playful and will be purring while she is doing this. I need
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    to typically remove myself from the area or else she will keep going. This most often happens during her midnight zoomie sessions where she runs around the room making Murloc noises. When she's doing
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    that it's dangerous to put feet on the ground. How do I get her to stop attacking?
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    Update A month ago, I made a post about my small entity attacking our feet. I now have an update after my husband tried out an... interesting solution: Oven mitts.
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    My husband joked that he was going to bring home some welding gloves so we can wear them on our feet when we go into the bedroom, which was the only room she would attack in. Randomly, that
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    same day, we found a pair of oven mitts we never used and didn't plan on doing anything with. My husband put them in the bedroom on his night stand and when she started getting zoomy, he
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    put them on and got on the floor. She instantly charged him and latched onto the oven mitt, bunny kicking his mitted hand into submission, purring up a storm the whole time while her ears were ready for liftoff.
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    Turns out her favourite game is WWE and the oven mitts have helped reduce her desire to attack our feet. When we see her getting playful, we put them on and she can go to town. For
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    something that weighs 7lbs and is the size of a slipper, she is surprisingly strong! She is a lot less murderous towards feet as well, which has been a huge plus. She still has
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    her moments but for the most part the behaviour has largely been curbed. Now if only we could get her to stop scaling the walls like a spider... but that's a project for another time.
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    I have always had dogs and wrestling with a giant rottweiler is quite fun. I never expected to be able to do it with my cat but I am so happy that I can since it's a ton of fun to play with her and she loves it.
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    We only wrestle with the oven mitts and not actual hands so she doesn't seem to associate them with toys, only the mitts.
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    She also doesn't seem to have interest in other oven mitts so she seems to have realized that these ones are for playing and others are not. It has also reduced the undesirable behaviour, which I am very happy about.

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