Screaming and being rough

My son has started screaming and thinks it’s funny to scare the cat away by doing so. I try to explain that it scares the cat and makes him sad when he does that, and he kind of seems like he understands that, but then will just keep doing it. Does it take time? Any suggestions?

He’s also being pretty rough with our other cat, and we’ve implemented “gentle hands” since he was tiny, but he will just look at me and smile and then be rough with him again. I just am at a loss. He’s starting to hit me more and even hit himself. Is this concerning? Is it normal? y’all got any suggestions? Because I’m spent. 🥲

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he’s 18 months.

My son is 18 months and does the same thing. Our cat went through training with our now 11 year old. She was 5-6 when we got the cat. The cat knows he can walk away. We just keep teaching him to be gentle and just give side hugs and kisses to the doggies and kitties. With the screaming, I just really let my son scream and explore his voice. But I thought him how to whisper and say shhh, this has helped a lot.

Mine does the same with the cat 😔 it makes me so sad because he's been around for 10 years before her and he's such a good cat and she just abuses him 😿

Same. My son has been taught gentle hands and calm around animals since he was born basically. He'll be super gentle and calm with the cat one minute and then shoving toys at her and trying to chase her. She scratched him one day but it did not have a long term effect. I've been trying to limit his time with her and the minute I see him go after her i grab him and separate him. But overall he laughs and just keeps on. She's an older cat too and very much preferred being the only child. I'm hoping with consistency on my end he will change his behavior.

Our dogs are constantly abused by my daughter- just gotta keep setting those boundaries consistently but I feel ya girl. These poor animals

Toddlers are rough, man. Lol

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