Rens
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Hey everyone.
I'm back once agai. W some trouble
Decided to make a mew post cuz the behavior has escalated.
Our 2yo girl Saoirse has began showing agression and we are clueless. It's been going of for a week or 2 and she's never done this before.
We read article after article, and they all say the same and don't fully apply to our little demon.
I play w her twice a day for 15 minutes. After her food at 16h and at 22h.
We play after her food since she doesn't want to play before cuz she just wants the food asap.
In the evening she does not calm down anymore after her playtime w me. She's super high energy and seems rly on edge. Tail swinging etc.
And she'll start to try get into stuff she shouldn't. We ignore all we can and eventually she'll come to us and maybe groom a bit and then stare at us, tail swinging and attack us.
She'll go for the face if she can. It's usually like a grab and smack and then fall off again. If we hold up our arm to protect our face she'll grab and bite the arm and it's getting harder and harder. She drew some blood yesterday...
One evening we tried to ignore all the attacks aswell, turning our backs to her etc, and after a while she calmed down and came over to sit under a blanket even.
But we don't always stay up that late so when we are moving our stuff to the bedroom, have the whole sleepy routine. She'll linger around, watch from inside her boxes.
And also come and attack our legs sometimes.
When she does she'll do a weird meow and swinging tail. Sometimes ears flat.
Just now im at my laptoo for work and she'll walk in front of me and sit on the laptop, so i gotta scoot her over or pick her up and put her on the ground, and then she'll start to stare at me from the tavle at eye height and attack.
I left the room.
Go back and sit down. She comes running, meowing. Jumps on the table, bites my hand, so i got away again, and then she meows a bit it the hall and waits.
Rinse and repeat.
I can't tell if this is frustration/redirected aggression or play aggression.
It feels like both a bit.
The example of the laptop is me having to correct her and she gets mad ab it?
But i can't just let her do whatever she wants, right???
The evening feels like she's full of energy and can't calm down?
Some sites say to redirect the behavior w a toy. But tossing a toy, wouldnt that be sort of "rewarding" the behavior? That's the least I'd want.
I can't decide if the playtime in the evening is good or not. Cuz on one hand i don't want it to be the cause of her being all rilled up. But on the other hand, i want her to get rhe energy out in a not naughty way.
I'm scared that the longer this drags on, the harder it'll be for her to stop this behavior.
Im so lost.
We tried so many things. Idk what else...
If only i knew what exactly caused this
I'm back once agai. W some trouble
Decided to make a mew post cuz the behavior has escalated.
Our 2yo girl Saoirse has began showing agression and we are clueless. It's been going of for a week or 2 and she's never done this before.
We read article after article, and they all say the same and don't fully apply to our little demon.
I play w her twice a day for 15 minutes. After her food at 16h and at 22h.
We play after her food since she doesn't want to play before cuz she just wants the food asap.
In the evening she does not calm down anymore after her playtime w me. She's super high energy and seems rly on edge. Tail swinging etc.
And she'll start to try get into stuff she shouldn't. We ignore all we can and eventually she'll come to us and maybe groom a bit and then stare at us, tail swinging and attack us.
She'll go for the face if she can. It's usually like a grab and smack and then fall off again. If we hold up our arm to protect our face she'll grab and bite the arm and it's getting harder and harder. She drew some blood yesterday...
One evening we tried to ignore all the attacks aswell, turning our backs to her etc, and after a while she calmed down and came over to sit under a blanket even.
But we don't always stay up that late so when we are moving our stuff to the bedroom, have the whole sleepy routine. She'll linger around, watch from inside her boxes.
And also come and attack our legs sometimes.
When she does she'll do a weird meow and swinging tail. Sometimes ears flat.
Just now im at my laptoo for work and she'll walk in front of me and sit on the laptop, so i gotta scoot her over or pick her up and put her on the ground, and then she'll start to stare at me from the tavle at eye height and attack.
I left the room.
Go back and sit down. She comes running, meowing. Jumps on the table, bites my hand, so i got away again, and then she meows a bit it the hall and waits.
Rinse and repeat.
I can't tell if this is frustration/redirected aggression or play aggression.
It feels like both a bit.
The example of the laptop is me having to correct her and she gets mad ab it?
But i can't just let her do whatever she wants, right???
The evening feels like she's full of energy and can't calm down?
Some sites say to redirect the behavior w a toy. But tossing a toy, wouldnt that be sort of "rewarding" the behavior? That's the least I'd want.
I can't decide if the playtime in the evening is good or not. Cuz on one hand i don't want it to be the cause of her being all rilled up. But on the other hand, i want her to get rhe energy out in a not naughty way.
I'm scared that the longer this drags on, the harder it'll be for her to stop this behavior.
Im so lost.
We tried so many things. Idk what else...
If only i knew what exactly caused this