Violent Kittens

On a serious note,

we have a kitten, shes lovely and about 30 weeks old, she has been spayed and bought up in a loving environment, but alas we cannot let her outside yet as we are worried she will be squished

Now shes developed a funny turn where she will suddenly attack us, quite violently with no way of making it subside untill shes had her "bit",

this is becoming concerning as she went for my face this evening and catherines before that....


We are tempted to get another cat to see if it will wear her out and help her with her Cat tendancies??

Does any one have any Serious suggestions?? were beggining to get worried..

Please dont post stupid remarks like shove it in a bag and find the nearest river, i love cats and dont take "jokes" like that light heartedly (Sp?),

Cheers all

Alex n Kitten and the vicious

How about getting it some toys to play with or something, might get rid of some of the excess energy.

When our cats are naughty at home they get shouted at and this seems to put them off, they have never attacked peoples faces though thats potentaily quite serious.

Our love to chase light (torch, laser pens , reflections etc) you only have to do it for a few minutes and it keeps them entertained for hours whilst they try and work out where its gone.

Get another cat. Definitely. Every time I've seen a lone nutcase moggie, it's calmed down when a new one is added to the equation, so long as they are both young. At 30 weeks it needs something interactive to jump on. Unless you want to be that something then I recommend doubling up

Even if they despise each other at first, they'll get used to each other in a few weeks.

It is quite possible that, having spayed her, she is undergoing a hormonal change and experiencing a premature menopause which manifests itself in irrational behaviour.

Seeing you and Catherine together, particularly if you are enjoying a mutually tender moment, she may then experience uncontrollable rage that Catherine is about to get what she (the kitten) isn't. I've experienced this at first hand with various ex-partners - particularly the one that tried to scratch my eyes out when I was caught in a perfectly innocent clinch with the young girl from across the road ( I was merely demonstrating the reverse Heimlich).

To prove this, ask the kitten to change a light bulb - if she calls in the neighbours and sets up a Community Aid Group, then you will in fact know it is a menopausal condition. Then, merely enrol her in the WI, Townswomen's Guild or as a traffic warden.

If this doesn't work, try biting her back (no, not her back or she'll just think you are a randy old Tom, I mean in retaliation).

We just gathered up two stray kittens, well, three, but one was eaten by a racoon.
Another story.
Anyway, all of them went fairly mental when they settled in. I just assumed it was kitten behaviour. What we got was a little green mouse, on a sort of fishing rod. The kittens just loved the green mouse, beat the crap out of it for about half an hour, took a nap, and then ate some food. When they came to me they just wanted to snuggle and purr and things.

So, yeah, try a sort of toy that you can jig about, so it doesnt associate you with games. Maybe

Get one of those plastic spray bottles and dilute lemon juice and when it starts going off on one ...spray it...apparently cats dont like citrus......failing that put in a bag and take it too the river only kidding

Kitty needs an avenue for its more psychotic behaviour and the toys suggested above will provide such. However, it also needs to learn where the boundarys are: Whos kill-able, whos not: whats scratchable etc.

Solution - A well aimed shot between the eyes with a low-powered childs water pistol everytime it's behaviour is less than pleasing. They soon get the message.

Kittens love to play fight with each other. It can sometimes look vicious, but it's only play. They learn two important things though this:

How to defend themselves in a real fight against another cat

and, more importantly, that claws and teeth hurt and should only be used as a last resort.

If your kitten doesn't have a pal to play fight with, then she'll be trying to do it with you. Solution is probably to get a second kitty as a pal - they'll probably hate each other for the first few days, but hopefully will then become friends - this doesn't always happen though and sometimes they'll hate each other for life. The best thing is to get two siblings from the same litter.

we've just got two kittens too. We won't let them out as we've had a couple run over in the last 2 years. They seem pretty calm as they play together and leave us and the other cat alone.
One of our now deceased cats had funny turns like that, we tried everything, but turned out she had worms and they were making her flip out. Got them sorted and after that she just licked everyone.

Also we were recommended something called a Panic Mouse. Never really looked into it, but apparently you switch it on and it plays with the cat for you. Varying speeds etc, and not much room needed. Find em on ebay I would think.

HTH

Have you tried doing a search for the feline websites, there must be some with advice, i used some of the dog ones recently for behavoural problems & it was great, seemed a bit strange though, being on a forum & not getting advice about my SV.