I adopted a kitten several months ago and he’s almost 8 months now, but he’s been stressing me out because he plays with literally everything and disciplining hasn’t worked. He’s such a snuggle bug when he’s calm but otherwise he is a lot to handle.
We have a 3-year-old who we got when she was 1 so she had passed the kitten phase for the most part and only occasionally caused trouble. Now she’s calm and well-behaved and while we expected the kitten to be hyper, we thought if we followed people’s advice on disciplining that it would be fine. But we’ve tried everything and nothing works. He’s clever and knows what he isn’t allowed to do so he does it when we’re not looking. I’ve tried a spray bottle which worked on my older cat but only deters the kitten for a short time before he tries again. Same goes for everything else - gently scruffing, hissing, clapping. We put foil on our turntable (we don’t have a spare room for that right now) and he instead wants to play with it and goes on the turntable anyway. Bitter apple spray only works for half an hour and then it wears off so he goes back to chewing on cables. He’s also long in length and uses it to try to reach high places - we don’t let him in the bedroom but he’s been standing on his hind legs and pulling down on the door handle a couple times a day. I’m nervous he’s going to figure out how to open the door entirely soon. We also have to put all our cutting boards away because we once left it out and found litter on it after getting home. We put a scat on the counter but it doesn’t always catch them.
I love him, but some days he gets on my nerves. And yes he does have a lot of toys and we play with him every day. Now that he’s almost 8 months I’m worried he’ll never calm down. I guess I mainly want some reassurance because it feels like my friends who have kittens have really well-behaved ones and don’t have to deal with this. I’m discouraged and tired and just want to know if it’ll get better.
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