I have had cats my entire life, they were always around since the day I was born. And over the last 23 years of my life I have lost cats and picked out new one's. I guess I have been very good at selecting kittens as everytime I got a new cat, it was usually very calm and gentle with only the usual playfullness and occassional grab of a normal kitten. None of them exhibited excessively agressive behavior in any way, and if they did have an incident usually a loud no, clap, or blowing in their face made them stop and they wouldn't act up again!
Well my luck with kittens has apparantly run out lol. Currently I have two adult cats a 12 year old boy named Max and a 6 year old girl named Sabrina. I used to have a very friendly and loving orange cat, but about 5 years ago he was hit by a car and died. Ever since then I have wanted another orange cat to replace him and a few weeks back I was able to get an 8 week old orange kitten from a friend.
He started out alright, and I kept him in one room with a litter box, food and a bed seperated from my other cats. But after a week, he started acting up. At first it was normal kitten crazies, then it became more aggressive. During petting he often flips over and starts biting several times while digging in with claws. I tried yelling no, clapping, blowing in his face, and it would stop him for a second only to see him start biting and scratching about 5 seconds later. When he's not biting and scratching he often runs around the house full speed, up and down the stairs, jumping into windows, bouncing off walls, attacking feet, and knocking things off shelves. He has several toy mice, a scatching post, string toys and the like, and he will play with those, then go off and bite hands, feet, and knock things over anyway!
His behavior with my other cats is horrendous. At first they were hissing at him, but after a few days he began attacking them with running leaps. Now my older cats are gentle and calm and have only lightly knocked him down a few times after he showed severe aggression towards them. Once he gets knocked by them, he reacts violently clawing at their faces and jumping on their backs multiple times. Ultimately my older cats run away, and he chases them wherever they go swatting at them and attacking them untill I let them outside.
Now my new kitten is sometimes good, mostly when he sleeps he will curl up in my lap and purr. Other then that his behavior is psychotic and has largely been uncontrollable.
He is just 3 months old now, and I have never had a cat behave this badly in my life. He continues to bite, knock things over, attack feet and harass my older gentle cats and nothing I do stops him for more then 5 or 10 seconds. All I can do is lock him in his room for a while, to which he responds by crying for up to an hour untill I open the door!
I need some serious help here, I have always owned cats, they have all been great and fairly well behaved. This one has shown no signs of improvement over the last month and in fact seems to be getting worse! Perhaps he will calm once fixed, but that's only a guess. Can anyone help me tame this monster cat, I'm really at a loss here and running out of options.
Thanks
Well my luck with kittens has apparantly run out lol. Currently I have two adult cats a 12 year old boy named Max and a 6 year old girl named Sabrina. I used to have a very friendly and loving orange cat, but about 5 years ago he was hit by a car and died. Ever since then I have wanted another orange cat to replace him and a few weeks back I was able to get an 8 week old orange kitten from a friend.
He started out alright, and I kept him in one room with a litter box, food and a bed seperated from my other cats. But after a week, he started acting up. At first it was normal kitten crazies, then it became more aggressive. During petting he often flips over and starts biting several times while digging in with claws. I tried yelling no, clapping, blowing in his face, and it would stop him for a second only to see him start biting and scratching about 5 seconds later. When he's not biting and scratching he often runs around the house full speed, up and down the stairs, jumping into windows, bouncing off walls, attacking feet, and knocking things off shelves. He has several toy mice, a scatching post, string toys and the like, and he will play with those, then go off and bite hands, feet, and knock things over anyway!
His behavior with my other cats is horrendous. At first they were hissing at him, but after a few days he began attacking them with running leaps. Now my older cats are gentle and calm and have only lightly knocked him down a few times after he showed severe aggression towards them. Once he gets knocked by them, he reacts violently clawing at their faces and jumping on their backs multiple times. Ultimately my older cats run away, and he chases them wherever they go swatting at them and attacking them untill I let them outside.
Now my new kitten is sometimes good, mostly when he sleeps he will curl up in my lap and purr. Other then that his behavior is psychotic and has largely been uncontrollable.
He is just 3 months old now, and I have never had a cat behave this badly in my life. He continues to bite, knock things over, attack feet and harass my older gentle cats and nothing I do stops him for more then 5 or 10 seconds. All I can do is lock him in his room for a while, to which he responds by crying for up to an hour untill I open the door!
I need some serious help here, I have always owned cats, they have all been great and fairly well behaved. This one has shown no signs of improvement over the last month and in fact seems to be getting worse! Perhaps he will calm once fixed, but that's only a guess. Can anyone help me tame this monster cat, I'm really at a loss here and running out of options.
Thanks
