Can someone explain cats

she was sitting on my lap at work, purring

Every cat has a tolerance meter for pets. It's unknowable and changes hourly, but if that meter is ever exceeded they bite you.

Agreed, but not usually hard at all. It's supposed to just be, "okay, done here"

Can someone explain cats

• Overstimulation - often from petting/scritches, some cats get overstimulated by the petting and will "nip" or bite. Solution: slow your pets down, reduce intensity, and increase the interval between petting.
• Irritation - similarly to above, sometime a certain body location can be sensitive causing irritation when touched. This can be due to age, injury, disease, or natural occurrence. Solution: observation will determine course of treatment.
• Play/roughhouse - Some owners like to roughhouse with their cats and play/wrestle often using their hand. While fun, it can teach a cat to attack hands, as you have now challenged the cat mano y mano. Likewise cats will use their teeth in place of hands to grasp and carry things. Solution: reduce the intensity of play and set strong boundaries between times of roughhousing and relaxation.
• Attention - small nips or play bites are common occurrences when the cat wants attention. They lack hands and four legged friends use their mouth instead. Solution: only serious bites should require correction.
• They crazy - sometimes a cat just isn't learned the rules of the house, and will claw and bite without restriction. This also occurs if a cat isn't raised without other cats, that through play, learn not to play too rough. Solution: mostly a lost cause

Every cat has a tolerance meter for pets. It's unknowable and changes hourly, but if that meter is ever exceeded they bite you.

If you watch enough Jackson Galaxy, you'll be become a pro in no time.

https://www.youtube.com/@JacksonGalaxy

Besides abuse; reasons for why your cat might bite you:
* Overstimulation - often from petting/scritches, some cats get overstimulated by the petting and will "nip" or bite. Solution: slow your pets down, reduce intensity, and increase the interval between petting.
* Irritation - similarly to above, sometime a certain body location can be sensitive causing irritation when touched. This can be due to age, injury, disease, or natural occurrence. Solution: observation will determine course of treatment.
* Play/roughhouse - Some owners like to roughhouse with their cats and play/wrestle often using their hand. While fun, it can teach a cat to attack hands, as you have now challenged the cat mano y mano. Likewise cats will use their teeth in place of hands to grasp and carry things. Solution: reduce the intensity of play and set strong boundaries between times of roughhousing and relaxation.
* Attention - small nips or play bites are common occurrences when the cat wants attention. They lack hands and four legged friends use their mouth instead. Solution: only serious bites should require correction.
* They crazy - sometimes a cat just isn't learned the rules of the house, and will claw and bite without restriction. This also occurs if a cat isn't raised without other cats, that through play, learn not to play too rough. Solution: mostly a lost cause

I've heard the term dozens of times, and been on the internet forever, but this is the post that finally made me realize 'mano y mano' translates to 'hand to hand', and not 'man to man'

I didn't take Spanish in high school

And tons of spanish slang is as you would expect it. I've heard:
-Trucka (means truck)
-Yarda (means yard)

His show taught me how to approach a skittish cat by showing it your open palms. That way they know you dont have a weapon or a net.

Always been a dog person, but my friend found an abandoned kitty in a parking lot, and I adopted her. She's two now, and I still can't figure her out. Just now, she was sitting on my lap at work, purring and being cute, when suddenly she just sunk her teeth into my arm and didn't let go. Sometimes she does little nibbles to get attention, but this was an I WANT TO CAUSE YOU PAIN bite. Why Lina? Why?

My cat spat in my face when I showed it my open palm. Must be a Republican.

They're not really domesticated. You're basically keeping a wild animal in your house and pretending it's a pet.

Cats aren't meant to be understood. They are bundles of calamity that are contained within a sleeping vessel. When the vessel wakes, some chaos escapes. It is your duty as a human to witness the small calamity to prevent the large, and to give head scratches and snacks.