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5 months ago we got a 3-month-old neutered. kitten from the SPCA. We keep him indoors. He is energetic, but I have 4 daughters under 9 who stay home all day, so they've been able to play with him. They also occasionally pull his tail or pick him up roughly, but we stop them immediately, teach them and he's always seemed to handle it well. He scratches or bites us occasionally, but it's obviously all in good fun. We just wash our hands and the scratches heal in a week. In the last month he seems less and less happy. This afternoon he was walking around and his eyes were dilated, his ears were up and his tail was tense. This often happens when he's playful, but we weren't playing with him and he didn't look playful, he just looked mad. Completely unprovoked, he walked over and hit my daughter in the face twice with his paw. My daughter was very surprised, but she wasn't crying, so I know his claws weren't out. Tonight my family was reading together and he randomly walked up to my daughter as she was laying down and hit her in the eye. She cried, but I didn't see any scratches, so she was probably just scared. I certainly can't have the cat stalking/attacking my kids. I thought we might need to put him outside for a while, but I read on the internet that cats shouldn't need to go outside. Does anyone have any ideas why he might not be happy, why he's attacking my kids and what we should do about it?