aggressive kitten measure

Tamanya’s really a sweetheart, but yesterday her feeding aggressiveness made me realize she couldn’t be trusted to sleep in my vicinity in the near future.

Her usual method of telling me she wants to be bottle-fed is to paw my lips gently, whether I’m awake or asleep. But yesterday it went a bit too far on several occasions. Once she clawed my lips rather than just pawing them, and it really hurt. Another time she pawed me directly in the eyeball, though thankfully without claws. On yet another occasion, she bit my nose. I was on the phone last night with a friend, and she told me about a friend of hers in England who received serious eye damage in a case like this, and that settled it– little Tammy was going to have sleep in a different room.

She did fine with it. She didn’t cry outside my door, and she was able to lick up most of the milk from a dish that I had left for her during the night. She also doesn’t seem filled with anger and resentment towards me today.

Naturally, I also feel much better rested after a full night’s sleep without three kitten wake-ups, so this is the way we’ll do it until further notice.