I assume you are familiar with the correlation between declawed
cats and biting, right? And this poor girl is part Siamese, too. They can
be really moody.

Many of us have had and loved psycho kitties for years. I had one
for 20 years. Do you plan on fostering her for long enough to
train her not to bite?

Unfortunately you don't know her history; however, she has been
declawed... and declawed cats are more inclined to bite because they no
longer have claws as a defensive mechanism.

That sounds a LOT like Gaya (my female Tortie)

unfortunately I never could "reform" her.. she just trained me to live with
it..

Hope you figure it out though.. it's hard enough to adopt out cats that
don't have bad habits.. :o(

Have you thought about trying Prozac?  I know someone who had success with
it on her foster that she had named "Cybil" because of her personality.  The
downside is that then the cat is on medication, which also makes her hard to
adopt.  Try giving her extra rewards when she is nice, like treats and lots
of praise.

Richard Evans <infodex@mindspring.com> wrote in
rec.pets.cats.health+behav:

That's exactly how Kami is and was before and after being declawed, and
it's the reason I had her declawed, and probably same for your foster.  
All I can say is time has mellowed her, but she continued to have her
moments well into the double digits.  (She's pushing 18.)

One of the cats at work is like this.  We got her from a shelter when she
was 1 1/2 years old (that was February 1999).  The shelter did not mention
that she was declawed, and she was so shy at first I didn't realize it for
about a week.  Once she got used to her surroundings and came out of hiding,
she started biting.  She doesn't like to be pet much, but would allow
someone to start petting her and then she'd decide she had enough, and she'd
bite.  Since she's in a store, she was biting a lot of customers.  When she
bit me, I would say very loudly, NO! and pull my hand away.  Eventually when
I said NO she would stop biting down, but she would often still have her
teeth on my flesh.  She's around so many different people all day, but
eventually she stopped biting ME.  She sometimes gets mad at me and will
hiss & growl and pretend that she's going to bite me but she always stops.

However, she gets into moods sometimes and will attack everyone else (except
my boss, who she also never bites).  If she's in a bad mood (was spooked,
was attacked by the other cat) she'll often take it out on the next person
she sees.  She's gotten the ankles of every current employee and countless
customers over the years.  She draws blood most of the time, too, right
through pants/jeans.  We were having a lot of problems with her in late
September/early October, but she's also had medical issues and was going
back & forth between work, my apartment and the vet for 2 solid months.  She
finally calmed down and has been much better for the last 5-6 weeks.  I got
her a cat tree/condo, which is in the basement, and she spends a lot of time
on it.  This keeps her away from customers most of the time.  And overall,
she is biting a LOT less now than she was just a couple of years ago.

--
Liz

It's temperment and kitten-hood is to blame, no amount of "training"
will help.
Just don't breed it or have it Fixed if you don't want more of that
type. :->

~John