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I have always had cats since I left home and could have my own pets. I am thinking, since I adopted our current cat Mumbles, that I was particularly lucky with all my cats and their personalities, because I never had much trouble at all.
I trained my last kitty to fetch and sit, and stand up and do all sorts of tricks on command. I also always spend time playing with my cats and talking to them. I moved to the states about 8 months ago and was desperate for a feline companion. I saw the cat we adopted on facebook as she was going to be put to sleep if no one could rescued her. Anyway, we rescued her with no real idea about her life before she ended up living in a shelter, and it was deemed that she was probably around the age of 3 months.
When she first came home she seemed quite adjusted, friendly and confident and snuggly. As she is maturing she has acquired some annoying habits, she literally bounces off of body parts and launches herself off of you. We have tired telling her no, blocking our bodies when we can see she is going to do it, but most of the time it's unexpected, and it really hurts. She runs around the house like a lunatic, and crashes into things. She is very talkative, which can get annoying, she plays very dominantly and bites and scratches and has not yet learned that her claws actually hurt humans. She uses her claws ALL the time on us and the furniture.
It seems to me that she hasn't had the interaction all kitties need to learn the rules through socialisation, and I have tried so hard to compensate for that, but she isn't really learning. I feel so sad, because I am really not enjoying having her around, because she causes so much chaos. I know kitten craziness, and this is way more than that. She also went through a period of peeing on our bed and clothes, but I managed to stop that and she's now back to using her own toilet.
This cat is testing my patience beyond beieif.
Any suggestions would be welcome.
Thank you. :-0
p.s We have not bothered with a tree this year, because we know she would pull it down in a heartbeat.
I trained my last kitty to fetch and sit, and stand up and do all sorts of tricks on command. I also always spend time playing with my cats and talking to them. I moved to the states about 8 months ago and was desperate for a feline companion. I saw the cat we adopted on facebook as she was going to be put to sleep if no one could rescued her. Anyway, we rescued her with no real idea about her life before she ended up living in a shelter, and it was deemed that she was probably around the age of 3 months.
When she first came home she seemed quite adjusted, friendly and confident and snuggly. As she is maturing she has acquired some annoying habits, she literally bounces off of body parts and launches herself off of you. We have tired telling her no, blocking our bodies when we can see she is going to do it, but most of the time it's unexpected, and it really hurts. She runs around the house like a lunatic, and crashes into things. She is very talkative, which can get annoying, she plays very dominantly and bites and scratches and has not yet learned that her claws actually hurt humans. She uses her claws ALL the time on us and the furniture.
It seems to me that she hasn't had the interaction all kitties need to learn the rules through socialisation, and I have tried so hard to compensate for that, but she isn't really learning. I feel so sad, because I am really not enjoying having her around, because she causes so much chaos. I know kitten craziness, and this is way more than that. She also went through a period of peeing on our bed and clothes, but I managed to stop that and she's now back to using her own toilet.
This cat is testing my patience beyond beieif.
Any suggestions would be welcome.
Thank you. :-0
p.s We have not bothered with a tree this year, because we know she would pull it down in a heartbeat.