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Old 07-05-2008, 11:48 PM
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Unhappy Missbehaved kitten help

I have a 10 month old kitten named Lily who is very badly behaved. I've had her for 7 months now and she does not respond at all to any kind of discipline. The main problems I have with Lily is that she repeatedly jumps on my counters and kitchen table, she knocks over all of the waste baskets in my house to look for Q tips to play with, she scratches at my couches and mattress, and she cries outside my bedroom door at night or if she's left alone for too long. I would gladly let her sleep with me, but she scratches at my mattress, attacks my legs while I'm sleeping, and hunts for Q tips and I can't get any sleep with her in the room... Not that I can now anyways because she cries outside my door until I pay attention to her. I've tried all kinds of discipline... Spray guns, using bitter spray as a deterrent for scratching and climbing, grabbing the scruff of her neck, telling her no, blowing in her eyes as I tell her no, putting scrunched up tin foil on areas she likes to jump on and giving her a "time out" in her pet carrier for a couple minutes. I've bought her a scratching post and lots of toys to keep her occupied during the day... She plays with them and uses her scratching post, but she still decides to claw at my furniture. I think she's doing it for the attention. She follows me around the house from room to room and she always greets me at the door very happily as if I've been gone for days. Is it just an age thing that she'll grow out of?
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