One of my 3 furballs was adopted from the Trenton animal shelter (I think he was found on a corner selling drugs! He's striped, naturally,, from his time in jail.) Anyhow, someone at the shelter made the decuision to neuter him at 7 or 8 weeks of age. As a result, Koda has NO IDEA that he is a grown cat. Some of his kittenish antics are comical, but not the one where you pet him and he suddenly attacks your hand with claws aand big-cat teeth! I try to keep him indoors, but I'm fighting a losing battle, since he was once an outdoor cat. (My two others wouldn't go outside if you lit their tails on fire.) Anyone else got a neutered-too-young kitty?

That does sound young to neuter a cat. How old is Koda now? Some cats attack hands whether they're neutered/spayed or not. My male furball was neutered at the shelter at 9 months old. I was told that he won't have the full aggressive tendencies of a male cat because he was neutered so young. Hope that helps?

He's not agressive the way you would expect from a male cat. He acts like a KITTEN. Koda just turned 4 in September. He's the youngest - the other two are 5-1/2 years old. When he gets outside, he runs around to the back door and waits for someone to let him in. He just enjoys beating me to get out. I've never seen him with another cat.

One of my cats is 11 years old and still will bite hands that are petting her -- not enough to draw blood. My friends are wise to Harriet, so are careful.

Regarding keeping the cat inside: I adopted a cat who was an outside cat and was about 6 years old. My method for keeping him from trying to go outside was this. I stood outside the door with a spray bottle of water. I would open the door a couple inches. Gus would come over and try to open it further. I would spray him and close the door. We did this over and over until he no longer tried to go outside. I still occasionally took him outside on a leash and halter -- not often, cuz he figured out how to get out of the halter. He didn't want to go anywhere, he just wanted to mosey around and eat grass.