Just got a new kitten, vicious little bugger! Help!

[Buttholelane]

So my husband surprised me with a kitten! Yay!

It's a girl, I think around 6 weeks old.
The lady apparently says 8 but I'm not convinced, seems awfully small.

Have tried introducing it to the dog, there have been moments of calm but mostly it growls and hisses.
This does not impress the dog.

I fed the kitten some chicken, my husband went to stroke it and it growled with astonishing ferocity!!

Can cats get resource guarding like dogs??
We are very taken aback, and truth be told, a little worried.
We have a 5 year old and a 7 month old, I don't want any nastiness towards them.

Please help me.

Tell me my husband has not brought home psycho kitty?
:(

One of ours growled when she first started coming into our house to steal food. She was a starving little mite and would try to take bread from the dc's hands (while they were trying to eat the bread not feed her), and took to stealing teabags if left unguarded. Whenever she got something she would growl at us if we tried to go near before she could eat it or escape.

Since we took her on she has calmed down around food a lot. She used to gulp down a pouch of food in under a minute. Now she will eat a bit and then wander off. She has gained 1kg in 2 months and is now nearly her ideal weight. I haven't heard her growl over food in over a month. Hopefully your kitten is just hungry and used to having to fight their corner.

She is fabulous!
I wish she and the dog got on better but it's very early days and my dog is terribly in your face although she did manage to lie quietly while kitten slept and ate :)

She is just hilarious, she plays fetch, she climbed on my hubby and grabbed his bowl of cereal in her paws lol.
She's a right little character.

She sounds adorable!

I have a kitten that plays fetch. I thought it very lovely. Until last night, when he repeatedly jumped on me whilst I was asleep and dropped his squeaky mouse on my face. Did I say he did that repeatedly?

I've had a few cats who played fetch. With one in particular, I used to sit on my bed and chuck scrunched up train ticket, and she'd bring it back to me - hours of fun. She would also catch a tennis ball which I throw into the folds of the floor to ceiling curtain at the sitting room door; she'd go mental as the ball caught in the folds throwing herself at the curtain to get the ball down, beat it around the room and the corridor, and then bring it back to start again

My brother recently got a kitten they already have a dog, it took 12 days for the dog to stop shoving his face in the kittens face and bum and for the kitten to stop hissing and spitting with such ferocity it made us all jump a mile. 4 months on they are best friends and are inseparable

TeenDog and TeenKitten took about 3 weeks to get used to each other - interaction wasn't forced but I always kept a long line on dog if I knew the kitten was going to come into the room.

They're now best of friends and play tag and fetch together - dog will bring the cat a small tennis ball and the cat with bat it back to the dog!

Give it a few weeks before making a judgement, I bet they'll be thick as thieves by the end of the month .

I hope so.
I was throwing a toy for the dog earlier and the kitten watched us play then dashed after it alongside dog.
Jumped a mile when dog came bombing past for the toy as well though, she did it twice.

They have played on opposite sides of the room nicely in view of each other and eat happily a short distance from each other.
Sometimes kitten is quite hissy and other times they have been very close, almost nose to nose and she seems happy.
Dog likes to sit and smile at her lol.