CaptainJack
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I agree with everyone and think that she'll be just fine. If she is usually easy to handle it's probably ok. I'm sure that someday you will be bit, but that is just something that happens when you keep an undomesticated animal as a pet. They're still wild essentially and every now and then they'll act that way. We have no way of knowing what goes on in the minds of our animals, so who knows what she heard or smelled or saw that caused her to think she had to defend herself.
Try not to be scared though! Like other people have said if you reward her biting by leaving her alone you'll just reinforce the biting and then she'll do it every time she wants something her own way.
Way back when I used to take riding lessons the instructor had a couple mean-spirited, evil old horses and he would tell us whenever we had to go get one of them, "You don't let that horse know that you're scared of him. If he sees that you're scared then he knows he's got you beat. You just go in there and tell that horse, 'I'm not afraid of you.' and bring him out here." So don't let her intimidate you, but probably in a couple days when you go to hold her again she'll be over whatever it is.
Try not to be scared though! Like other people have said if you reward her biting by leaving her alone you'll just reinforce the biting and then she'll do it every time she wants something her own way.
Way back when I used to take riding lessons the instructor had a couple mean-spirited, evil old horses and he would tell us whenever we had to go get one of them, "You don't let that horse know that you're scared of him. If he sees that you're scared then he knows he's got you beat. You just go in there and tell that horse, 'I'm not afraid of you.' and bring him out here." So don't let her intimidate you, but probably in a couple days when you go to hold her again she'll be over whatever it is.
