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With a dog, the way to deal with that would be to immediately stop what you are doing, ignore the dog and not to give it what it wants. Act like it doesn't exist for ten minutes and then try again.
I'm fairly sure cats aren't dogs though.
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Don't reinforce it. Let her do it but don't feed her. Or feed her at different times when she doesn't bite you.
It'll take a bit, but animals just re do whatever worked, when they try to communicate with us.
If that doesn't work or gets them something else they didn't want, they'll stop doing it. -
A yelp or show that it hurt can some times make them stop. Or a simple Oi! Then no food for 10 mins
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Celeste is a greedy little cat, and although I am grateful she doesn't wake me up demanding to be fed, once I'm out of bed in the morning it's deafening MIAOW MIAOW MIAOW until she gets her wet food (she always has dry food out, but she wants what she wants), batting my legs as I walk and reaching a crescendo if I go in the kitchen. This is all repeated at 6pm when it's dinner time. Recently she's bitten me on the leg as I've either been opening the can in the kitchen or decanting the food into her bowl in the other room, and I'm really keen for her to stop biting me! Any suggestions? Water spray? Paint my legs with something foul tasting?