'When will my kitty stop being evil?': New cat owner adopts 3.5 month old cat who won't stop destroying the home, internet chimes in on being patient with mischievous young kittens

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Nov 6, 2025 5:00 PM EST

Cats are known for many things; their stereotypes are vast and expand from innocent purrs to malicious destruction of all your toilet paper you own. A cat's temperament is capricious, so even if you think you got a princess or prince type of kitty would just likes to sit pretty, you're surely mistaken! Cats are inherently naughty and mischievous. There's nothing they love more than tearing into a new bag of cat food you just bought, or making your toilet look like confetti. So now that their inherent personality flaws are out of the way we can focus on the story at hand – a first time cat owner, and the struggle to understand his feisty, hyper, insane kitten. 

This man had no idea what he signed up for when he adopted a young kitten. At just 3.5 months old, the kitten has no chill when it comes to play time. This kitty wants to play, and play, and play, which for cats means destroy everything in sight. 

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    When will my kitten stop being evil?

    Kitten with torn toilet paper
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    At 3.5 months, she is an absolute menace. Her every waking moment is
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    spent trying to find something new to destroy. I came home
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    from running errands to find that she'd pulled a paper bag out of the
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    trash and shredded it like confetti.
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    She literally gets 3+ hours of play time over the day, but it's never enough. The
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  • I'm so grateful my cat wasn't like this when I got him. He was also a kitten of 3 months old. I don't know if it's because he was always quite fat, or because of something else, but he was never so destructive like the cat in this story. 

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    second play time ends, she resumes her eternal hunt for new crimes to commit.
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    EDIT: Yes, I am aware she's not literally evil and that none of her behavior
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    technically meets the elements of any crime. lol
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    ZelaAmar... • 10h ago Kittens start calming down and settling
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    Kitten destroying home
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    into their adult personality between 1-2 years
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    profsmoke ⚫ 10h ago You've got a long way to go. Kittens are menaces. The
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    only options are to get her a playmate or kitten proof your house like it is Fort Knox.
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    Deconstr... 10h ago This is normal kitten behavior but also why it's suggested
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    to get kittens in pairs so they can exhaust their energy on each other.
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    Jeffro_th... • 10h ago That is a kitten ....they will calm down. Try paper
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    bags....they love those.... check out drinkwell water fountain and a treat pad too
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    Torn papers
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    Hwy_Witch 10h ago She's a baby. Give her things to destroy, so long as
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    she isn't eating it, murdering a paper bag is excellent fun,
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    and way better thsn furniture, curtains, the t.p. roll, etc.
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