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I'm fifteen years old and I got my first cat about a year and a half ago as a kitten. I was kind of clueless about cats until recently, but I finally figured out that you have to play with them or they'll get really obnoxious and destroy your house. It was the end of my 8th grade year when I got him, and I didn't have a lot on my plate. Now that I'm in highschool, though, and a sophomore, I usually don't go to bed until around midnight because of homework and other commitments. This isn't to say I don't have time for my cat, but I don't have time for his antics.
He doesn't like the toys that I have, at least not all the time. Sometimes, he loves them and wants to play. Others, he wants absolutely nothing to do with them and would much rather scratch my walls, rip off calendars and pictures, bite me or my pencil, scratch my notebooks or my textbooks, push cups off the table, his full food bowl off the shelf (which he literally just did about ten seconds ago.) or something else that really pushes my buttons and makes it difficult not to scream at him or lock him away in a dark tower where I will never, ever see him again. Though I don't really mean that, because he'll be sweet in the morning, when I have hours of homework ahead it's REALLY frustrating.
I need help. I'm desperate. What can I do to keep my cat off my back every night, because this is a nightly thing, and I'm at my wits end.
He doesn't like the toys that I have, at least not all the time. Sometimes, he loves them and wants to play. Others, he wants absolutely nothing to do with them and would much rather scratch my walls, rip off calendars and pictures, bite me or my pencil, scratch my notebooks or my textbooks, push cups off the table, his full food bowl off the shelf (which he literally just did about ten seconds ago.) or something else that really pushes my buttons and makes it difficult not to scream at him or lock him away in a dark tower where I will never, ever see him again. Though I don't really mean that, because he'll be sweet in the morning, when I have hours of homework ahead it's REALLY frustrating.
I need help. I'm desperate. What can I do to keep my cat off my back every night, because this is a nightly thing, and I'm at my wits end.