Hey so I have a new kitten, about 14-15 weeks old now I'd say and he's always been a biter ever since we got him, and we've tried the typical methods of putting him down away from you and ignoring him, walking away, making loud noises or 'no' and pointing the finger, and distracting him with another toy But he doesn't give a shit, seriously. If you put him down away from you he'll just jump up and bite harder and if you walk away he'll just latch onto your legs. We took him to the vet for his shots and he outright attacked. Like full hissing and biting at the vet, the vet had no idea what to say and he said that kind of hostile behavior was unusual in kittens. He's never that aggressive with us, and he's the most friendly and cuddly cat in existence when he is not in play/attack mode. Now weirdly enough, when he's in 'attack mode' with us he does not hiss or anything, and in some cases he even purrs even if he's being 'mean' and looking like he's right pissed off.
Now my mom has thinner skin then I do so when the kitten goes after her it hurts her, whereas it doesn't hurt me as much but I still do the put down away from me bit repeatedly until he finds something else to terrorize. However the odd thing is, he doesn't scare. At all. He isn't scared of the vacuum, he looks at you like your the devil when you do the finger point and tell him no, he does not cower or go into the typical cat eyes closed, ears back and hide stance. He stares at your finger with a very strong glare, body sideways nearly ready to pounce on you if you even moved your finger almost as if you challenge you. Here's another fun part of the story, my mom thinks she knows exactly how to raise every cat in existence. She is using the methods on him that she used on our last cat (which worked fine) and it doesn't work on him at all, she grabs him by the scruff of the neck. Tells him no and puts him down away from her but sometimes she tries to force him into cuddle time and continues to hold him after he clearly doesn't want to get cuddled because he's a kitten and he's in play mode, I tried to explain this to her but she insists on her methods. The kitten lets me pick him up no problem, whereas whenever my mom picks him up he'll immediately try to bite her now. I do see 100% that what my mom is doing is not good, at all. However I do know that he's not normal on the aggression front. Maybe it's because he only has us and no other animals to tire himself out with, or maybe it's just how he is but there is an aggression to him that isn't anything I've seen before.
Sorry for the long question but I need some advice as I am not sure how to diffuse this situation without losing the kitten, I love him to bits and I want to know how to deal with this so if anybody on here with some knowledge could help me out I would much appreciate it. I work in the morning so I might take a bit to reply but I really appreciate any help I can get.
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