Well, I solved the issue surrounding my cats & housing, as I now have a new house, but I have an ongoing problem that I am at my wits end over.
The majority my other cats are loving, well socialized, well behaved, and absolutely adore myself & each other. Even the temperamental ones (my eldest female and one of my youngest females) are tolerable of each other, and are still loving and well behaved on their own. I have no problem approaching them, I have no problem grooming them, no problem with them being together, most are gentle and easy to care for, they respond well to me.
Quite some time ago, when I was at the vet with one of my other cats and her kitten for a check up, a lady came in with a beautiful kitten, and the vet refused to take it as they were "full", being a multi cat household, I offered to take it until I could find it a new home, and she arranged a time the next day for me to pick him up.
Now my friends wanted the kitten, so I went to pick him up. When I got there, she sprung on me a beautiful ginger kitten as well, so I thought, well I'll take them both as they're brothers. The first kitten, a tabby was so quite and withdrawn, curled in a corner, shied from touch, basically introverted, which from the start I could tell was weird. However, when I went to grab the second one to place in my pet carrier, it jumped, started, and ran a mile with us in pursuit, before banging head-first into a glass door, bleeding from it's nose, hissing, and it bit me. HARD.
Now I thought it was scared, I took them both home. Treyzon the Tabby was beautiful but my friends brought him home after 1 night as she was allergic. You could tell that he was a scared cat but harmless. However, the other one, seriously, it's eyes were schizo and I had no choice but to keep him - Serryn.
So I ended up keeping them both, and this is where the problem sets in. I can only speculate that before I got them, Treyzon and Serryn were abused as tiny babies because that is the only way to explain the behavior. Treyzon has one side of Autistic Behavior (he is lovely and easy to handle but quiet and too docile) and Serryn has VERY aggressive behavior.
Serryn's behavior is at the point, I have to keep him in a cat carrier, and even after dealing with kittens that scratch accidentally, I am scared to touch him. He bites me. HARD, He makes me bleed, he literally tears skin from bone. He scratches to bleeding point. He doesn't just growl when you go near him, he yowls, as if a huge dog is coming to tear him apart. When you go to touch him, it isn't protectiveness, his aim is to kill and maim anything that will touch him.
Usually I stay away from him, I care for my other cats, and I just give him what he wants - a roof over his head, attention if he wants it (he never does) and food. He loves the other cats - he just hates me and anyone else of the human species. I've just flea bathed all my cats, and I want to bath and clip his nails too - but there is no way I can get near him, let alone hold him and wash and clip him.
I don't know what to do. I can't handle him anymore. I don't want him euthanizesed due to him being a danger - I couldn't even give him to anyone, he would NOT pass the re homing tests they have at shelters as if he were a big dog - the behavior he shows could kill a small child, that would be so cruel, but is there truly anything I can do for him? I've tried to make up for what was obviously done to him before I got him by whoever had him before me, but although it worked with Treyzon, this cat is too strong and defies me at every turn.
Any advice?
The majority my other cats are loving, well socialized, well behaved, and absolutely adore myself & each other. Even the temperamental ones (my eldest female and one of my youngest females) are tolerable of each other, and are still loving and well behaved on their own. I have no problem approaching them, I have no problem grooming them, no problem with them being together, most are gentle and easy to care for, they respond well to me.
Quite some time ago, when I was at the vet with one of my other cats and her kitten for a check up, a lady came in with a beautiful kitten, and the vet refused to take it as they were "full", being a multi cat household, I offered to take it until I could find it a new home, and she arranged a time the next day for me to pick him up.
Now my friends wanted the kitten, so I went to pick him up. When I got there, she sprung on me a beautiful ginger kitten as well, so I thought, well I'll take them both as they're brothers. The first kitten, a tabby was so quite and withdrawn, curled in a corner, shied from touch, basically introverted, which from the start I could tell was weird. However, when I went to grab the second one to place in my pet carrier, it jumped, started, and ran a mile with us in pursuit, before banging head-first into a glass door, bleeding from it's nose, hissing, and it bit me. HARD.
Now I thought it was scared, I took them both home. Treyzon the Tabby was beautiful but my friends brought him home after 1 night as she was allergic. You could tell that he was a scared cat but harmless. However, the other one, seriously, it's eyes were schizo and I had no choice but to keep him - Serryn.
So I ended up keeping them both, and this is where the problem sets in. I can only speculate that before I got them, Treyzon and Serryn were abused as tiny babies because that is the only way to explain the behavior. Treyzon has one side of Autistic Behavior (he is lovely and easy to handle but quiet and too docile) and Serryn has VERY aggressive behavior.
Serryn's behavior is at the point, I have to keep him in a cat carrier, and even after dealing with kittens that scratch accidentally, I am scared to touch him. He bites me. HARD, He makes me bleed, he literally tears skin from bone. He scratches to bleeding point. He doesn't just growl when you go near him, he yowls, as if a huge dog is coming to tear him apart. When you go to touch him, it isn't protectiveness, his aim is to kill and maim anything that will touch him.
Usually I stay away from him, I care for my other cats, and I just give him what he wants - a roof over his head, attention if he wants it (he never does) and food. He loves the other cats - he just hates me and anyone else of the human species. I've just flea bathed all my cats, and I want to bath and clip his nails too - but there is no way I can get near him, let alone hold him and wash and clip him.
I don't know what to do. I can't handle him anymore. I don't want him euthanizesed due to him being a danger - I couldn't even give him to anyone, he would NOT pass the re homing tests they have at shelters as if he were a big dog - the behavior he shows could kill a small child, that would be so cruel, but is there truly anything I can do for him? I've tried to make up for what was obviously done to him before I got him by whoever had him before me, but although it worked with Treyzon, this cat is too strong and defies me at every turn.
Any advice?