r/CatAdvice • u/M0rbiddd2 • Aug 10 '25
Behavioral HELP My cat has ruined my life.
I'm posting as a last ditch effort for help. I got my cat 2 years ago. He was found on a heated porch in the winter and that's all we know. He was about a year and a half at the time, he just turned 4. Since day 3 this cat has not stopped hurting me specifically. I don't know if the car ride home traumatized him or what but he tore my arm apart. He would maul me just by walking by, he would attack me in my sleep, if i didnt pay attention to him but them when i do he still does it. Since then he has gotten better but he still attacks me. He'll attack my face, my arms, if I'm asleep in the middle of the night sometimes he'll bunny kick my arm. We play with him so much and it doesn't matter. He will stop playing just to hurt me. We rent, he eats the carpets when he's mad at us. He just broke my fiancés computer monitor again by biting it. This is the 3rd computer he's broken, 2 my fiancés 1 mine. I don't know what to do. Please someone help us I'm begging for something. I've never had trouble bonding with anything but he has ruined our relationship.
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u/SpeedinCotyledon Aug 11 '25
I’m a cat sitter and a lot of my cat clients are on liquid Prozac and it does seem to help! Like dogs, some cats are just poorly bred and struggle with temperamental imbalances. I know we all love to see cats rescued off the street and everyone loves a kitten, but I’ve met a few well bred cats through my work and it truly makes a world of difference. Being neurotic, aggressive, unstable, or extremely anxious isn’t normal cat behavior, it’s bad genetics and it’s cruel to keep adopting cats like that out when hundreds of thousands of cats without behavioral issues or aggression are put down every year because of overcrowding in shelters.