10 month old kittens....... How do I stop them misbehaving?

Question

Jumping up on my computer table, knocking photos, vases, ornaments over.

Have tried throwing them out over night, but a mate reckons if that doesn't teach them there is only one way........drowning.........is this the kindest way to kill kittens if they are being difficult?

Answer 1

I was very sad to hear that you have considered drowning to stop your kittens enjoying a bit of fun! Loosen up your heart, you do not want to live all of the rest of your life remebering that you were a murderer!

What you must do is play with them, just get a little ball and bounce it on the floor or get something like string, wrap it round a piece of paper and trail it and let them run after it! Kittens are like children they do like to have fun! You too can join in the fun!

Please do not be cruel to your kits, they can give you so much back as companions when they mature, I think perhaps you are young and need a bit of help. I have 11 cats living in my house and apart from scratching furnishings, they do not deliberately knock things over, have patience move away things that could be knocked down, give them time and they will respect your house!

I hope that this gives you some inspiration,
thinking of you!

Answer 2

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The new puppy is certainly one of the most adorable and cuddly creatures that has ever been created. It is the most natural thing in the world to shower it with love and affection. However, at the same time it is important to realize that if you want to have a well trained adult dog, you need to begin the training process right away. The dog, like its related ancestor, the wolf, is a pack animal. One of the features of a pack is that it has a single dominant leader. Your new puppy is going to want that leader to be you, but if you do not assume that role from the very beginning, the puppy’s instincts will push him to become the leader.

The most important thing to remember about training the puppy during its first six months of life is that it must see you as the leader of the family pack. The essential thing is gaining the trust and the respect of the puppy from the beginning. You will not do this by allowing the puppy to do whatever it wants to do whenever it wants to do it. On the other hand, a certain amount of patience is required. Most people err in their early training by going to extremes one way or the other. Although you need to begin the basic training process at once, you can not expect your dog to do too much at first. Basic obedience training is fine and should include simple commands like sit, stay, and come. Remember that trying to teach the dog advanced obedience techniques when it is a puppy is much like trying to teach a five year old child algebra.

It is also important to restrain from cruel or abusive treatment of the puppy. You can not beat obedience into your dog, and it certainly is not going to engender feeling of respect and trust. House breaking is an area where this usually becomes a problem because of the anger that is triggered when the puppy fails and creates a mess inside the home. Although this issue must be addressed without anger, it most be addressed. If you allow the puppy to eliminate inside the house, it will continue to do so as an adult dog. The same thing is true of other destructive or dangerous behavior such as chewing and biting. Do not expect the puppy to grow out of it. You are going to need to train the puppy out of it, but you should do so firmly but with a sense of play and fun using positive reinforcement and lots of love and praise for good behavior.

Answer 3

You can't really "stop" it. You can not encourage it though. Don't teach them to bite and wrestle with your hands or you'll have a scratcher. And don't allow them to do things now just because they are babies and don't know any better and then expect them to stop when they are older.
Spritz them with water when they scratch the furniture or get on counter tops etc., make sure you are providing a proper scratching/climbing surface for them though.
If you really something obedient, try a dog instead.

Answer 4

This is normal kitten behaviour I'm afraid. If you don't want the kittens just take them to an RSPCA centre and say you don't want them, they will find them new homes. Or advertise them free to a good home, there's no reason at all to kill them.

Answer 5

Are you kidding. Drowning. Friends like these who needs enemies.

Kittens are kittens they love playing and as long as they stay fit and healthy they'll be at least 7 or 8 year old before they calm down as middle aged cats.

You didn't say how many kittens you have, but If I were in your shoes they should have there own sleeping, playing and living area. It would be great if they have been encouraged to be outdoor cats with a yard or garden to play in, but if not and they are indoor cats than you are left with no other choice but to limit where they can roam. So they don't damage sentimental ornaments, your computer and your furniture.

Also if you are not accustomed to having kittens I would have thought no more than two would be ideal, in addition to this cats only misbehave when something else is wrong. They have no toys, no scratching post so they use your furniture or textured walls. In actual fact two kittens could wreck your home in no time if they haven't been catered for.

From my experience sometime ago a teacher asked me to look after her two kittens whilst she was on holiday.She had left money for food and litter and the instruction they were not allowed out as they had not had any vaccinations yet. The two kittens were 4 months old. A completely white one with pink eyes albino and deaf as a doorpost, and a black one. They were beautiful and completely out of order.

So I went to her house and it was mad. They leapt up the walls leaving a ridge of scratched out textured paper, hung on to curtains knocked over ornaments and plants, scratched the pile from a beautiful chinese rug and left there poohs on it and the settee was a mass of shredded up newspaper and urine.

I found a clean chair sat down and observed them for twenty minutes it was crazy. The owner had warned me not to worry about the state of her home but curious whether there was any difference between upstairs and downstairs I went up to look. Gosh what a shock the condition upstairs was the same an absolute mess. I rang her to ask her permission to make some drastic changes. I could tell by her voice she was worried and maybe thought I was a bit to particular. But I assured her she would be completely amazed at what was possible within the space of three weeks. So she agreed.

There were three bedrooms, a top hall, an ensuite bathroom a seperate shower room and a cupboard to clean through tidy and sort. Downstairs there was a Kitchen, Utility room, an office, a seperate downstairs toilet, a living room, a dining room and a large hall. So I spring cleaned through the house over four days and on the last day closed off for cat access the downstairs hall and all of upstairs. I had found an old laundry basket which I cleaned up and an old blanket which I put through the washer and hung out to air, I thought this would make an ideal large bed. Plus a small piece of carpet which did not match anything else in the house. So I rolled it with the canvas on the outside and tied it with two seperate peices of string and a cat ball on each end. This was a hide out and scratching post when laid on its side.

The chinese rug I cleaned and moved to the dining room also moving some ornaments a chinese black lacquered cabinet, and this lovely and enormous plant which needed to recover from the cats scratching at its bark. I then locked this room and the little office.

Accessible areas left was the living room, the kitchen, the utility room, the seperate downstairs toilet and the back garden.Great.

Daily when I had also moved there accidents I'm afraid I placed both there little noses in it, and then after feeding placed them onto a clean litter tray, it took 10 days to train the pair that pooh and wee everywhere was not acceptable. Fantastic I thought.
As this teachers house was large I also put up a second litter tray in the utility room. I thus rang her again one week before she was due home to ask for permission to do something else. On this score my luck ran out. She didn't want a magnetic cat flap fitted, as she wanted the cats to be real indoors cats.

When she returned the fact that her house was tidy and smelt clean was a shock to her. But more so than that was the gratitude for having house trained her wild ones. My birthdays all came at once as she gave me a surprise cheque for the work I had done.

One of these cats is still alive today, but the white albino kitten was put to sleep after accidently getting out and being run over aged one.

A shame the demands of teaching allowed her no free time to exercise her creativity with a secure cat playcentre for the back garden.

So the answer is to a provide something small for activities, a seperate bed to sleep in, and to house train them...before allowing access to all of your home. Enjoy your kittens.

Answer 6

No! The kittens must not be drowned but if you want rid of them take them to a rescue centre.

Answer 7

how do you stop the wind?

you don't say how they are misbehaving; but you need to consider that they are merely being 10 month old kittens. how to you train kittens? with much patience, persistence, and positive rewards.

best wishes,
cryllie

Answer 8

You've got to be kidding! That's like telling a room full of 2 year olds to sit sitll....ain't gonna happen....enjoy their "childhood"...use lots of paitence, understanding and love...and maybe try diverting their attention whenever they are "misbehaving"...i.e. give them a treat or toy to change their attention away from the offense....cats are cats....they do have minds of their own.....

Answer 9

thats what kittens do, just like a toddler wants to get into everything but you wouldnt drown that would you?

Answer 10

If you want cats, there gonna jump all over everything, if you want to drown them then i'll report you to the RSPCA you cruel B*******