Cat Won't Stop Growling at Kittens, Months Later

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My cat is driving me insane. We now have 5 again (and it isn't the first time we've had 5-- we've had 7 before, and no, we don't live in a tiny unaccommodating house--), and my cat Chloe won't ever shut up. It doesn't matter if the kittens (technically they're young adults, not kittens-- I think they're around 9 months old?) are a foot away from her, or ten feet away from her all the way down the hall. She's constantly growling at them, refuses to walk past them and sometimes, lays in an area to prevent them from walking through and just lays there growling. And I'm like, "how do you have that much energy to growl 24/7 at two fellow cats that mean no harm". If they get too close, she hisses and runs at them to smack them in the face, then backs up and continues to growl. 

If I try to get her to stop, she does it even more and then starts hissing at me. She's not behaving as if she's scared (and has no reason to be anyway). No timid behaviour, just aggression. And now she's doing this to the other cats she's familiar with as well. I wouldn't say she's a cat that "needs to be her on own", because she's always been fine with all our previous cats (just a little moody sometimes if they stare at her or get too close. It's bad because her growling causes one of the kittens to want to taunt her by getting close and laying down to stare at her and if she keeps on growling/hissing, then he starts following her around. Otherwise, the kittens never do anything to bother her. Even if they're playing together on the other side of the room and don't even know she's there, she's being stuck up to them and having a literal hissyfit until they leave.

She came to our door maybe two years ago? Fixed (they all are), fluffy, and usually very happy and friendly, until the kittens show up, then she's cold, mean, and sounds like a bad car motor. It's extremely annoying, she doesn't stop once she starts unless both the kittens leave completely. It's gotten so bad that instead of being friendly even with me anymore, she just chatters the way she does when she's annoyed and walks away from me. We're not giving up any of our cats, no. Not happening. But is there anything that can be done (minus locking cats in a room or permanently separating them-- our cats have always been given complete freedom to go wherever they want in the house at any time of the day) to stop this? We've had the kittens for a few months now and the situation is just getting worse, it isn't improving. I've never had this problem for this long before in all my years (20, my whole life) of owning cats. At the most, maybe 2 weeks, but never several months of aggression. 

We do everything for our cats, treat them like royalty basically, they're always all very friendly and sweet and lovable, but Chloe... my god. I can't stand it anymore, but I'm not sending her away. She may be the queen of the household (currently, only female cat, so maybe that's the issue and she feels intimidated?), but she doesn't need to act so prudent towards two little babies that just want to play.
 
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[ADDITIONAL INFO]: I've tried to show her that the kittens are okay, by petting them at time I pet her, and playing with them and letting them climb/lay on me while I sit in front of her, and she just continues to growl away non-stop. 

*cat that needs to be on her own (not "her on own", haha) 
 

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Hi Chrome, I'm having the same growling (and hissing) problem from my girl who just turned 3. She suddenly hates the older male cat, who she previously slept close to and would wash his face. Now it's a war.
To calm her I've purchased the pheramone plug-ins, the spray and collar. I'm using the spray on entranceways and sleep areas to keep her calm. I've also used homeopathic calm drops on her treats. I would start with the pheromone spray and plug-in to see if it calms your kitty. It was soo expensive at the pet stores but a huge discount from chewy.com
 

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btw the male is a bengal and large and very agressive when provoked so I'm starting prozac on both to get some sort of calm back. Advised by my vet. That would be my next step if the calming techniques show no improvement.
 
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