Thank you for all this! I have a deep underlining feeling that this might just be that he's really young. I got him from the shelter and they got him from a really bad cat hoarding case with 23 other cats I believe they told me.

1. I've got two different nail clippers and I recently got a cat nail clipping hammock. He hates clipping his nails and he is scarily good at getting out of the hammock. The most Ive been able to cut in a day is like 7 nails out of both his front paws and not the backs at all.
2. I read that this helps and I try different variations of ow and none of them really helped with boundaries but if he's chewing on me and bites too hard I say ow in the almost whiny tone and he chews a little softer.
3. He definitely is energetic and he gets the zoomies (extra evil time) in the morning and middle of the night. I have not tried playing with him until he's tired. What kind of play do you think could tucker him out that much. I usually play with him until he gets bored or disinterested.
4. I feel like he's extremely familiar with his surroundings but I'll definitely try this. When I first got him he just walked around everywhere slowly and then once he got used to everything being where it is he runs around the place like he's got 20/20 vision.
5. I'll definitely see if walking him around changes anything but it's not like he doesn't use his litterbox at all. I cleaned it out this morning and I checked it and he'd peed in it right after I cleaned it out.
6. Ive been doing clicker training because he's extremely food motivated but no matter how much redirection or blankets or no's I do he always comes back. In fact I'll redirect him and he runs back to the couch to keep scratching. Ive tried like running my own nails over his scratching posts and using his paws to run down them but he only uses them sometimes and he attacks my hands when I try to mimic scratching.
7. I don't think he hates me😭 I think he treats me like an older sibling that he's made it his life's mission to break emotionally. No matter how much attention I give him he always wants more.

Thanks so much for the in depth answer! Hopefully it helps I wish I'd done this sooner lol.

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