Crazy Cat

We adopted two kittens two Saturday's ago. Because we have an older cat that is very aggressive we have been keeping the kittens downstairs until we get them to an okay point to put them together. One of the two kittens is starting to really drive me crazy. My husband keeps telling me that he is just a kitten to just let it go but he is not home with the kittens every day (I am a teacher and off for the summer). He sits at the top of the stairs of our kitchen door and cries until I get my coffee and come down in the morning, he cries at the door anytime he can hear me upstairs, and cries at the door when we go up to bed. He is constantly fighting the other kitten and has officially scratched up her face pretty well to where she now has scabs on her nose in three different places. He will not let her sleep if he is awake which I feel bad about because she is very calm compared to him and for a kitten. He has beat me up pretty bad with scratches all over. He follows me everywhere, makes me carry him, and gets into everything. When he is tired he jumps onto me and gets in my face and cries. He tries to get comfortable and can't and cries until he does or anytime someone touches him when he's getting comfy. I understand he's a kitten, but he is becoming so wild and it's driving me crazy to the point that I feel like I can't leave him alone because he cries so much and because I don't like him hurting the little female.

Try clipping his claws . Don't play chase or hand wrestling games with him active bigger kittens need some one to throw balls for them or dances toys on sticks and string to wear then out. Can your older cat take turns going to the basement when cat exchange rooms this way the get used to the other cats smell and they don't seem so strange to them later and as an added bonus the little guy can be with you upstairs for part of the day, our cats go outside so I just let the new one out when the others have gone on their rounds.

How often and how are you playing with the kittens?

We have clipped his claws and her claws already but they've grown back. We don't wrestle with him, usually they play together or with toys we have on the floor for them because he's already so rough. He attacks me when I am sitting on the couch just watching TV. We have done the switching thing but then figured it was easier to keep them downstairs (when my husbands home, because I'm 7 months pregnant and don't want to get hurt, we leave the door open so that they can kind of all roam and we just follow them around to make sure our older cat isn't hurting them). Pretty much all last week I spent most of my time downstairs do that they had someone with them while they were getting comfortable in the house. I try every now and then to switch on and off between spending time with both sets of cats (the kittens and the older cat) so they both get shown attention and love but this one is really starting to get the best of me. I just can't figure out what to do. The crying gets me the most because that's literally all he does, and I know he's not lonely because when the female is awake they are always playing together and we do spend a lot of time with them to the fact that I'm driving myself crazy because I never leave the house over it.

That must be very rough on you, especially with you being pregnant on top of things.  This may sound really odd to you, but do you think the male may be reacting to your pregnancy hormones?  I know my female kitten is very aware if someone is hormonal in our home.  She is either very affectionate or very much a furry terrorist when these situations arise.  Try maybe a body spray?  I also have squirt bottles filled with peppermint water all over the house and when our little girl gets being rough I spray her.  Cats don't like peppermint and they don't like getting sprayed, so it cools the temper tantrum down when she is getting out of control.  When she gets to biting and clawing (even though her claws get trimmed all the time) then she goes for a time out in her kennel.  I have bathed her a few times taking her in the shower with me and holding her by her collar while shampooing and rinsing her.  She is getting better at the whole idea but only if the water is very warm.  Seems to calm her down a lot after a bath.  I hope you are able to find some relief from these issues because the last thing you need is to be stressed out by this little fur baby.  Please take good care of yourself.