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I adopted a 1 year old neutered Siamese male cat about 9 months ago. He was a stray that was rescued off the streets by a vet tech who had him neutered, shots and checked out by a vet several times. She warned me that he gets "over stimulated" when you pet him too much and turns to bite you, but otherwise super energetic, intelligent and charming. When I first met him I picked him up for a while and he looked up at me and I fell in love haha.
My boyfriend and I also have another 14 year old female cat. So when I first got him he had his own room so he could get used to us and the other cat. When I tried to pet him or pick him up he would bite, hiss, and scratch so I left him alone figuring he was just getting used to us. I wanted to go real slow with the transition process so I didn't even let him see the other cat for 2 weeks and didn't let him out of the room for the first month.
He continued to grow meaner and meaner. He started to attack me when I would just walk by him. He's a very big cat and I'm short (5'2") and one time he jumped and tried to take a swipe AT MY SHOULDER! Several times when he was just sitting around and I tried to pet him a little on the head he attached himself to my arm! I had to stick my finger in his mouth to pry his head off my hand, he just wouldn't let go! The bite had pierced the skin on my hand on one side and bruised it on the other. One day when my boyfriend's baby nephew came to visit I remembered my mean cat so I went to pick him up so I could put him in his room. While he was in my arms he quickly turned and BIT MY FACE. I put the cat away and looked in the mirror and thought he ripped off one of my nostrils it was so bloody.
He also loves to attack the other cat, wrestling her on her back and biting her neck and shaking her. My boyfriend has a lot of scars from his terrible bites. While we are sleeping sometimes he jumps up on the bed and starts biting my feet.
I've done a lot of researching trying so many different things. I've tried squirt bottles, clicker training, yelling at him, making a "loud scary sound" when he's bad, rewarding "good behavior" with treats, putting him in his room when he's out of control, throwing pillows, and even swatting him on the nose. I brought him back to the original vet clinic where I got him from to get him check out again and they told me that sometimes people just put down pets like this. They said that he is taking up the place of a perfectly sweet cat that is being put down at a shelter and I could go find a nice cat.
I even tried finding a home for him through the internet and he was returned back to me 3 times. All the potential owners would say stuff like "he wouldn't let us near him." I've taken into consideration that he was a stray and perhaps even feral. I'm hoping that if I just hold on long enough he's just get fat off living as a house cat and just calm down. But in the end I'm scared of him, scared he'll never change and think it's irresponsible to try to put him in another home where he could hurt other people.
EDIT: Two things I have yet to try is meds or giving him to a farm. But what kind of meds and are they ridiculously expensive? Also how would I find a farm willing to take an aggressive cat when I live in a city?
My boyfriend and I also have another 14 year old female cat. So when I first got him he had his own room so he could get used to us and the other cat. When I tried to pet him or pick him up he would bite, hiss, and scratch so I left him alone figuring he was just getting used to us. I wanted to go real slow with the transition process so I didn't even let him see the other cat for 2 weeks and didn't let him out of the room for the first month.
He continued to grow meaner and meaner. He started to attack me when I would just walk by him. He's a very big cat and I'm short (5'2") and one time he jumped and tried to take a swipe AT MY SHOULDER! Several times when he was just sitting around and I tried to pet him a little on the head he attached himself to my arm! I had to stick my finger in his mouth to pry his head off my hand, he just wouldn't let go! The bite had pierced the skin on my hand on one side and bruised it on the other. One day when my boyfriend's baby nephew came to visit I remembered my mean cat so I went to pick him up so I could put him in his room. While he was in my arms he quickly turned and BIT MY FACE. I put the cat away and looked in the mirror and thought he ripped off one of my nostrils it was so bloody.
He also loves to attack the other cat, wrestling her on her back and biting her neck and shaking her. My boyfriend has a lot of scars from his terrible bites. While we are sleeping sometimes he jumps up on the bed and starts biting my feet.
I've done a lot of researching trying so many different things. I've tried squirt bottles, clicker training, yelling at him, making a "loud scary sound" when he's bad, rewarding "good behavior" with treats, putting him in his room when he's out of control, throwing pillows, and even swatting him on the nose. I brought him back to the original vet clinic where I got him from to get him check out again and they told me that sometimes people just put down pets like this. They said that he is taking up the place of a perfectly sweet cat that is being put down at a shelter and I could go find a nice cat.
I even tried finding a home for him through the internet and he was returned back to me 3 times. All the potential owners would say stuff like "he wouldn't let us near him." I've taken into consideration that he was a stray and perhaps even feral. I'm hoping that if I just hold on long enough he's just get fat off living as a house cat and just calm down. But in the end I'm scared of him, scared he'll never change and think it's irresponsible to try to put him in another home where he could hurt other people.
EDIT: Two things I have yet to try is meds or giving him to a farm. But what kind of meds and are they ridiculously expensive? Also how would I find a farm willing to take an aggressive cat when I live in a city?