What age do kittens calm down?

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Our boy will be 7 months soon and this week I have noticed he isn't as mental as his usual self. I don't know if it's had anything to do with the fireworks, our daughter is on a school residential also so he may be missing her. Or if something could be wrong he just doesn't seem himself.

I wondered if as he's getting older he may be calming down?

Mine are 1 and a half. They sleep a lot of the day and then have crazy hours. Most of the toys are ignored now in favour of their own tails or actual catting such as going outside and catching real mice. They are also less good at catching flies.

So yes, calming down.

My two are seven months today and we've had them two months. They're still play fighting and responding to toys, but over the last couple of weeks they've stopped jumping over everything and sleeping together.

Can we have a picture please?

I did put this on a thread the other day but it's my favourite pic of him

Mine are sloths now @6...

What a cutie! He's lovely.

It's so long since I had a kitten (my last kitten is 18 now, and my girl was an adult when she came to me) that I don't recall exactly when they 'slow down' but it coincided with mine getting too big to climb up the curtains. It was certainly before they reached adult size.

I say this but yesterday he made me play fetch with him for a good 10 minutes whilst I was getting ready for work. He's just not as mental as before, still loves to jump on the tv though 🙄

You are lucky Valenta- one of mine has just worked out she CAN climb the curtains - aged 1 and a bit

Mine are 18 months now but they calmed down around this time last year. I'd say it was not long after they were neutered (4 months) and started going outside (5 months) that I noticed a big change in their 'bounciness' and they stopped climbing the furniture / chasing tails etc.

Is he going outside now he's bigger? That might be the biggest user of any excess energy.

My two only calmed down properly once they were allowed out (6 months old, after their ops) and would stagger in exhausted after a few hours to eat their bodyweight in felix before collapsing in a heap to sleep for five hours. Before they went outside, we played with them as long as they wanted to, and it could go on for hours and hours.

My boy is 18 now, and still has short bursts of total madness, skittering around the house yelling his head off, before sleeping it all off. It's no longer hours though...five minutes of nuttiness, at most.

I have 4 kittens all half siblings ( through their dad) two eldest are 8 months and still crazy, the two younger are 4 months and climbing the curtains, table, wardrobe , clothing ect it's going to be crazy for a while yet I think!

Photo for ref 😍

Aargh! I ended up having to replace one pair of curtains when they became my kitten's playground!

Ours is about 16 weeks now and still playing wall of death in my bedroom at 4am... climbs up everything and no sign of stopping.

My wee girl used to climb the wallpaper. We lived in a rented flat and the kitchen was papered in this sort of fake tile - it was sort of puffy. Remember that stuff? She could, quite literally, shimmy her way right up the ceiling by digging her wee claws in. Fortunately she got too big to do it before she did any damage other than pin holes.

They did destroy a bed base though, a divan type. Ripped the fabric off using it as a scratching post. When we bought a new bed, I covered all four corners with double sided sticky tape - they only tried once and never touched it again.

Kittens are mental aren't they 

We think he has climbed the wall as we came home to claw marks through our chimney breast!

One of mine doesn't even do much outside but the mental energy consumed outside is massive compared to indoors. She's v nervous, it took me and DH carrying her outside and standing with her (both of us or she dashed back indoors) for her to be brave enough.

Even now her territory is as far as our patio. But just being outside and concentrating on catwork like listening to all the outdoor sounds burns up so much of her energy.

She was unbearable indoors. She comes back in after a couple of hours of earnest butterfly stalking absolutely knackered.

After being used to adult cats we adopted a young ladnin January. He's now about 18 months and is a lot calmer than when we got him. Zoomies happen once or twice a day (one time is always as we go to bed) birth is less destructive than he was.
Is all a bit of a shock after having proper grown up and senior cats!

Mine is nearly six months and is starting to calm down. Hasn’t climbed the curtains since Monday!