brianj12 wrote:
With young bengals, you are going to get scratched up. It's just part of the deal. But he should be learning over time that it hurts you and he should be doing it less and less. If you communicate to him that it hurts and makes you unhappy, and that games and attention stop when he does that, he will learn over time.
But here's what I don't get... how is he beating up your hands? Under what circumstance is he scratching or biting your hands? That really shouldn't happen, unless as part of an "accident". Legs, arms, and feet, yes, but hands no. If you or a member of your household is ever playing with a bengal with hands being the thing that they chase, like "prey" (like I see a lot of non-cat people do), you really can't afford to ever do that with bengals, it has to always be with toys, not body parts. Otherwise they are learning the potentially disasterous lesson that your hands are toys and prey, which won't end well.
He gets us when we don't expect it we will be petting him and he will catch eye of this tail moving and in the process of getting his tail he gets us, or when we're petting he will turn around and try to start playing rough with our hands. We immediately stop giving him attention and if he continues we put him on the ground.