Still, it startled me, and, of course, OUCH! This bite was mild he barely broke the surface of my skin. I turned my head to see what all the fuss was about, and Miles bit me on the back of my neck. Then, behind me, there was a scuffle between two free-roaming cats. He was new to my area of the shelter, and I was excited to have some good bonding time with him. While cleaning his cage, he was rubbing against my hands and headbutting my elbows. The first cat to bite me was Miles, an enormous black beauty who had been caged for health issues. My experience with cat bites Cat bites on a hand. They’re living in an environment with the ever-changing sounds and smells of 130 other cats, so it’s easy to see how cat bites happen. All those cat bites were from kitties who had simply gotten overstimulated.

However, none of the cats who bit me meant to do me harm - which is an important thing to remember in my position of continuing to care for them, even with fresh wounds. I’d been nipped at, sure, but never to the point of broken skin. I had never been bitten by a cat before I started volunteering at a cat shelter last summer.

Do you bite your thumb at me