Sorry I haven't been on in so long guys! I miss everybody and plan on getting back into my regular TCS routing soon!
Zoey has always been fiesty; she has an attitude, sass, spunk, and becomes aggressive sometimes. For example: I'll just be walking through the house and Zoey will start following me around. So I pick her up, and she has 3 reactions. The first is she goes limp and just lays there on my shoulder, purring, enjoying the attention. The second is when she immediately pivots in my arms, screams (she is half Siamese and has an extreme variety of meows, this one is her angry meow) and, with claws out, swats me across the face. Today she scratched me across my lip and chin and drew blood on both scratches. Oh, yeah, and the third is when she'll be in my arms and act happy for about 10 or 15 seconds, then out of nowhere will issue Reaction #2.
This is the only time she becomes violent. In play she does, but, she's 5 months old and of course she is just playing. I let her out about 3 hours every morning to play with the other kittens, so that definitely tones down her rough play inside the house. She is just being sassy, but it kind of hurts when she actually gets me....
I take her by the scruff of her neck, firmly say "NO, Zoey, NO" and drop her to the floor. I don't place her down gently, as if what she just did didn't matter. I drop her about two feet and then she sits there and pouts because I won't pay attention to her for the next 5 minutes or so. But...
This doesn't seem to really help, because she wanted down in the first place and just got what she wanted! If I continue to hold her, it just makes her mad.
It's also possible she has is going into heat? This has been going on ever since she was about 3 or 3.5 months old. I haven't gotten her fixed yet because our vet doesn't spay or neuter until she is 6 months. He has a reason for this, I won't go into the whole story.
Suggestions? Opinions? Reccomendations? All are appreciated!
Zoey has always been fiesty; she has an attitude, sass, spunk, and becomes aggressive sometimes. For example: I'll just be walking through the house and Zoey will start following me around. So I pick her up, and she has 3 reactions. The first is she goes limp and just lays there on my shoulder, purring, enjoying the attention. The second is when she immediately pivots in my arms, screams (she is half Siamese and has an extreme variety of meows, this one is her angry meow) and, with claws out, swats me across the face. Today she scratched me across my lip and chin and drew blood on both scratches. Oh, yeah, and the third is when she'll be in my arms and act happy for about 10 or 15 seconds, then out of nowhere will issue Reaction #2.
This is the only time she becomes violent. In play she does, but, she's 5 months old and of course she is just playing. I let her out about 3 hours every morning to play with the other kittens, so that definitely tones down her rough play inside the house. She is just being sassy, but it kind of hurts when she actually gets me....
This doesn't seem to really help, because she wanted down in the first place and just got what she wanted! If I continue to hold her, it just makes her mad.
It's also possible she has is going into heat? This has been going on ever since she was about 3 or 3.5 months old. I haven't gotten her fixed yet because our vet doesn't spay or neuter until she is 6 months. He has a reason for this, I won't go into the whole story.
Suggestions? Opinions? Reccomendations? All are appreciated!
