Midnight still hasn’t gotten over our bringing Clarence into the house, and that was six years ago. She still growls at him almost every time she notices him close by.
Thanks all! I absolutely love you guys! Seriously, you’se guys are my best friends.
sad, huh
And Guin - I LOVE the name Buffy. LOVE BtVS and am now surprised/disappointed in myself that I didn’t think of the Buffster when naming Poppy. I almost want to go and get her a new name tag!
If it means anything, I wanted to name my youngest kitty Poppy. Mr. K didn’t dig it. But it’s still on my list for a future kitty.
My Siamese is a big “love bite” kinda kitty. She also nips at my hands in bed if she wants me out of bed in the morning (for example, to feed her or just pay attention to her).
One thing I had to learn, though - don’t pull away when she bites. Pulling away just makes it hurt; if I leave my hand there, it’s a gentle bite.
The other time she will bite is when i scratch her “special spot” (about 3/4 down her back). Then, if I place my finger in front of her mouth, she chews like mad. It’s great fun 
My cat will also nip at me seemingly randomly at times. I think it’s kind of a release of tension that’s built up after some kind of prolonged and pleasurable stimulus, like a vigorous “scritching” as some call it above. I know, it sounds kind of sexual. He’s been de-nutted, so maybe he expresses the need for release differently than a whole tom would. I’ll be scritching him good, he’ll roll and writhe around, purring madly, and then GRAB! He’ll latch onto my arm and start biting at my hand or wrist. Never hard, so it seems half-playful, half irritated. If I keep at him, he can get irate, which I must confess I find quite entertaining. I’ve got a pretty high threshold for pain, so I’ll wrastle around with him for a while, and usually I’ll have a few good scratches to show for it. If I don’t scritch him into this quasi-orgasmic frenzy, though, he calms back down immediately, and we resume the scritch-fest in earnest.
My husband’s cat is a biter, too. It’s usually her signal that pettins and picking up time are now OVER! Squealing like a kitten works, too, for getting an adult cat to stop biting.
Yep, I’ve had a number of cats who would do the “bite then lick” thing; I’m currently catsitting for my mother and her cat does that exact move - he likes to wrestle, but he bites hard on occasion - and then promptly starts licking by way of apology.
I think the best way to train a cat not to bite is simply to yell “Ouch” right as they’re doing it. I’ve noticed they also pay very close attention if I hiss at them. Cats bite each other when playing and when licking each other; what’s a soft nibble to a cat is much harder to a human, since we don’t have a thick coat of fur in the way. Assuming the cat’s not biting out of fear - which will generally happen only if they’re cornered, as they’re otherwise much more inclined to hide - then it didn’t mean to hurt you. Just clueing the cat in to the fact that it bit painfully hard is all it takes. “Confronting” it - which sounds like it involved chasing it - is terrifying, in particular to feral cats. The thing is very, very nervous about you anyway; please don’t make it worse. For one thing, my understanding is that cats don’t have particularly long short-term memories, so if you wait more than a moment, the cat likely will have forgotten what it did. And besides, you don’t need to punish or frighten the cat; all it takes is making it clear that it hurt you.
Thanks. My sister’s actually the Buffy fan in our house. When we got her and Gypsy, she wanted to name Buff “Angel”. I said no, and suggested “Buffy” instead, because she’s orange (buff colored).
I call her “Buffy the Insect Slayer”, because she likes to eat bugs.