
Originally Posted by
LdySaturn
I have had my cat for almost 5 years now. She was an abandoned kitten that had to be bottle fed from a week old. She was great the first year, but she always had some habits that we thought odd.
At first, it was cute to watch her chase her tail, but as she got older it progressively more violent. She will hiss and spit at it and act like she is trying to kill it and it has gotten to the point where I have to reach for the spray bottle to stop her when she does it because it puts up such a racket and a fuss that basically knocks the whole house on its side...
Next up, after about a year and a half of having her, she started getting more progressively violent. It has gotten to the point that I can be just laying her watching TV or something and she will just randomly attach me. She has a habit now of biting me rather hard (to the point of drawing blood) immediately after loving on me.
I have tried all sorts of different remedies for these issues, and she is in perfect health so says her vet. I just don't know how much more I can take of this violent behavior. She can be perfectly sweet and then change the very next second into a violent creature with no regard for anybody. I am currently typing this with four puncture wounds in my arm and several scratches from her attack a few minutes ago after her coming to ME and expecting attention that I gave. The second I stopped petting her because she seemed like she was feeling threatened, she bit me very hard and then just ran off.
I am very close to taking her in to have her put down since I can't take this pain anymore.... As much as it hurts me to do that, I don't understand why she has always been so violent and why it has just seemed to steadily escalate as she has gotten older.
Any help or advice you can give would be greatly appreciated. I have enough scars from her and frankly I would rather avoid anymore.
This is really weird that I even CAME UPON THIS QUESTION because I am currently experiencing THE VERY SAME THING!
First off, after reading the other posts, "putting a cat down" for such a thing is not an option.
My cat has just turned 6 yrs old and is a short haired tan and white male cat who was also bottle fed by me since his C-section birth. He is the only survivor of 6 kittens. His mother Beltane could not deliver the kittens naturally as she was a rather small cat and has 6 kittens inside her! I did not realize there was a problem until the time came that she was ready to deliver and she was not delivering. I got her to the vet and after they took the kittens out, she died on the operating table. They brought her back to life with a shot of stimulant into her chest. She made a total recovery from being a very skinny cat, as it turned out to be after the kittens were out, to a nice full look. Eventually she ran away.
9 days after the c-section on the kitttens though, they all began to die. They appeared to be getting colds even though they were all well protected in their box. I separated the cat I felt the most closest to and intuitively knew only one would live. In fact, I heard "there will only be one" very faintly in my mind. An intuitive message. That's when I took him and separated him from the others.
One after another began to gasp for air and then died, and I quickly brought my cat Guide to the vet and the doctor checked him. The vet said he had "no water in his lungs but to be on the safe side I will give him an injection of antibiotics". The next day, he caught a cold! But he survived. What I remembered about him was that he was the BEST EATER out of all of them.
Unlike you, I have other cats and there's one cat (the cockiest and biggest one but also rather cowardly) that he despises and I have had to separate them.
He has always shown aggression to that cat, but never to me.
Until recently.. only recently he has begun to hiss and scratch me if I pet him too long. Many times he will be very loving and come to me and want to be petted and praised, then later when I reach out of my own accord, he's threatened and begins hissing and tries to bite me!
When I pass by and try to pet him while he's lying in his pet bed, he will try to bite me. Once I touched him as he lay sleeping, and he woke with a start, as though he has anxiety, and acted as though he was "on guard" against me! :(
This is very disturbing to me. I am hoping to get an appt tomorrow at the vet if I can.
I too would like to know what happened to my sweet, bottle fed kitten who was my "baby" and still is. He has always been such a good and loving cat to me, and now he's turning against me.
One rude male friend of mine only said this after I told him the story "thats why I like dogs better". I told him it had nothing to do w/ that and a dog would bite harder anyway!
Well I do hope to find out what it is, but I have found out based on some research that it can be a tooth problem or ear infection that would cause such a change in personality.
He's not lost his loving side, he's just had this ugly side added to his personality.
It also might be worms, have you thought of this? Let me know what you find out.
I find the our cats share similarities of having been bottle fed, and born near the same time. Mine was born right before the 911 event.
Hope to hear updates on your situation!! Thanks :)