Normal kitten behavior/aggression??

We have a beautiful 7 week old rescue kitten named Charlotte. She was found alone at 3 weeks old suffering from an upper respiratory infection and conjunctivitis. She could not potty on her own and had to be stimulated for nearly 2 weeks. She is nearly completely weaned and on Wellness Core Kitten canned food and GNC Weaning Formula. She was litter trained in 1 day. For the past 4 weeks she has been constantly played with, touched kissed, just all around loved on by the entire family. Problem is, she seems highly aggressive. She is in almost an obsessive, constant attack mode. ALWAYS stalking and pouncing. Bite, bite, bite! She doesn't just bite though, she tries to rip the skin off of you! She goes for anything she can, feet, hands, face. She will launch herself at our faces, claws out and just start trying to rip us apart. She is constantly doing that Halloween kitty arch and hop. You can not lay a finger on her what she doesn't "attack". Not matter how sleepy she is, she goes into beast mode if touched. We have tried/are trying the firm NO, hissing, yelping, us walking away, putting her down. Nothing makes a difference at all. Actually the discipline makes her wilder and more determined. Her go to is to spaz, fall on her back with her legs up and just flail around like a nut. My dad says she's the meanest thing he's ever seen. She also loves to voice her anger with ferocious (as ferocious as a 7 week old kitten can be) hissing and growling.

We have 3, 2 year olds we raised from 4 week old rescues. They never behaved like this. All they wanted then, and now, is to be held and touched and loved on. I'm concerned that when time comes to introduce everyone, her wild and aggressive behavior is NOT going to go over well and end up ruining any chance of them accepting her. Is this normal kitten behavior or something else going on? She doesn't have any siblings to tell her she needs to chill, so I wonder if that has something to do with it. She appears to like us. She comes running when she sees any of us. Of course, she may just like the way we taste. :jaw: Could she need more stimulating play? Any help is appreciated!

For reference, the little devil herself:

Oooh, a lovely little Seal Point kitten!  She probably has some Siamese in her (a lot of Siamese in her) and they are often very high energy, fierce, and very verbal.  Since she was raised as an orphan, she didn't get the training in proper play behavior that she would have gotten from her siblings and her mother, so you have to do that.  Seven weeks is exactly the time the little orphans get aggressive and they need to be trained by their human momma cat.  First, you need to get her a toy about her size with 4 legs that you can use as her wrestle companion.  She needs to learn to attack the toy, bite the toy, wrestle with the toy, and NOT with you.   The most important thing with these orphan babies is to regain their respect, teach them where they end and you begin, which means they need to lose some battles, get popped once in awhile when they attack (no harder than the mother cat would pop them, but enough to kind of bowl them over on the carpet, i.e. when they attack you, they lose).  Again and again.  But when they attack the toy, they can win when you let go of it.  Pretty soon he focused more on the toy than on me, but it took a lot of time of putting the toy between us. This is very normal.  If orphans are not taught these things, they can become very difficult when they get bigger.  They have to learn NO BITE the human.  NO CLIMB the human!  And you can play tag with her also, at this age they love to run away from you, catch me if you can!  Your other ones obviously got some of this from mom and each other, but your little seal point is like this little black boy.  We called him Huey Newton because he was a little Black Panther. 








Sorry about the double pictures.  I can't figure out how to delete the two duplicates.
This is a rainbow zebra, a dog toy with a squeaky inside,  that worked perfectly for that 7-week-old aggression.  We started him at 4 weeks with the sock full of rice that we heated to be his bed companion as an infant.  Eventually he grew and played with it and then ripped a hole in it, scattering rice all over.  Got the Zebra toy and he liked it a lot better.  I spent hours playing with him with the toy, wrestling with him on his back, defending every jump and attack by using the zebra in front of me.  I made sure his claws were cut, and we played very hard between feedings.  I would play with him until he dropped over from exhaustion, like he would have if he had litter mates (he was an orphan we got at 10 days of age).  He would jump me, spring at my face, try to bite my face, leap on my back, even growl at the Zebra when it played rough.  Sometimes he would get through and land on my bare skin and he got  a very loud shriek and he would get pinned by me, mouth held shut, unable to bite or move, until he would relax and surrender, then I would let him go.  No different than a bigger cat does.  By the time he was 8 weeks and went to his permanent home, he was ready to play with the resident cats in his new home.  The girl wanted to wash him, the boy wanted to chase him and wrestle.  It all worked out, but I warned his new famil that they might have to crate him from time to time.  He was used to that and very tolerant.  Crate meant sleep or rest time.  Out meant play and rowdy, then bottle made him sleepy and off to bed in the crate.  Fortunately he has two other cats to play with now, the rowdy boy and the loving girl.  He will learn to be a cat from them.  Charlotte will learn to be a cat from the cats you have.  At first she will probably be the best toy you ever brought them (that's how the cats in this little guy's home acted.)  She may hiss and spit and arch but she will also most likely run and they can catch her.  You need to have taught her how to surrender when pinned, even if you have to scruff her to do it, but that's the beginning of learning the rules.  She's quite normal for a 7-week-old orphan kitten.  She is just discovering her mojo.

Thank you for all the info, much appreciated.