Our Little Monster

So we have a kitten and her name is Bailey. We have had her for about 2 months now and when we got her she was so sweet and cuddly and had wrapped Spencer around her little paw which is a miracle in itself because let’s just say he’s not exactly a cat lover. And now, it is 2 months later…and she is 2 months older and the sweet and cuddly thing lasted well, for about the 1st 2 weeks. So instead of calling her precious, or darlin, I now call her my little monster. Trust me when I say she has earned the title, it’s like one morning she woke up and something clicked inside that tiny little kitty brain of hers that is just screaming “ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK!!” My bed skirt is ruined, my brand new beautiful sheets ruined, my feet have been attacked one to many times under the covers while I am sleeping peacefully and when we decide to go to bed is when she decides to finally remove herself from her position on the couch and zoom around our room like the biggest dog you have ever seen is chasing her. Now you would think there would be a simple solution to our problem. Which there is… and that is to lock her out of our room. But wouldn’t you know that she doesn’t agree with that solution, and neither does the safety of our bedroom door.

This is when I decided that we had to do something. Spraying her with water is a good short term fix but it lasts all of about 5 minutes and it’s like her brain erases what just happened in that same exact spot she just attacked like it was taunting her from across the room. So I bought spray on cat nip… it’s like happy juice for kitty’s. And it worked fabulously. I sprayed it all over her scratching post which up until this point she has had no interest in what so ever. I mean come on, why scratch the ugly carpeted thing when you have beautiful bedding to destroy right? Anyhoo when I say it worked fabulously I meant fabulously as in for several hours there was some relief from crazy kitty behavior. She was all over that thing like white on rice (ha ha) and then it was over…. Just like that we had failed yet again.

Our next solution was a lovely little item called soft claws. Soft claws as seen below you would think are the answer to all your problems.

The reviews on them are great and they are harmless and pain free to your rambunctious kitty. Essentially, they are nail covers that glue on. So I invested the $22 in this product and after quite a bit of struggle and growling (Bailey growls by the way… weird right) on Bailey’s end we had successfully glued those supposed miracle worker’s on. And then I released her from her blanket wrapped prison and one by one she got those suckers off with her sharp little dagger teeth. By the time we went to bed she had 3 left that she could not rip off. By this morning there was only 1. Needless to say we did get some pretty good sleep due to her distraction.


So now we are back to square 1. Really there is not much else to do besides squirt her with the water bottle that doesn’t seem to have much long term effect on her and wait out these next couple of months and hope she is just in her terrible 3’s in kitty months and this will all just be some forgotten nightmare soon. Don’t get me wrong. We love Bailey and Spencer still adores her, because after all this it the first cat to literally capture the pet loving part of his heart, and we wouldn’t change adopting her even if we could. I have faith in her to be the kitty we know she can be, and she still has those moments that make you fall in love with her all over again. After all she is only 6 months old. Things will only get better from here is what I here from all the cat lovers out there. Just a simple shout out to those cat lover’s though, “You BETTER be right.”

Next purchase…$15 cat repellent. I’ll keep you updated on her reaction and our now dwindling bank account.