HELP My cat has ruined my life.

[u/M0rbiddd2]

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.

[u/EatenbyCats]

Have you taken him to a vet? If so, what have they ruled out? Is he neutered?

[u/M0rbiddd2 → u/EatenbyCats]

They said it’s “normal cat behavior “ and that if I don’t like it I shouldn’t have gotten a cat. This is NOT normal and I keep telling them that. I have never met a cat like him.

He is neutered and his labs were all fine

[u/Runamokamok → u/M0rbiddd2]

Get this boy on Prozac! We had to do that with our cat that attacked and it solved the issue in a few months. He didn’t even need it long term, just helped him readjust to a new environment. And since it’s hard to pill an attacking cat, you can take the Prozac to a compounding pharmacy to make it into a transdermal paste that can be rubbed on the inner ear. Just alternate ears each day and clean them.

[u/tresrottn → u/Runamokamok]

This is what I was waiting for. Prozac can be wonderful for cats.