I regret getting a cat
So to start off I adopted a 5 month old kitten, which was my first mistake. She’s cute and all that, but I just don’t think I’m cut out to be a cat parent. She has so much energy and I do not. She is like a magnet any time I am in the room. She gets under my feet and I have fallen down the stairs multiple times because she will bob and weave in between them. I’m an extreme introvert, mostly due to not having privacy and personal space as a child. I feel like when I’m around her I do not get my personal space. She doesn’t understand that some times I just don’t want to be around her. It becomes a sensory issue for me. I try and play with her for hours every day yet she still finds way to ruin things in my home. I tried letting her sleep in my bed with me but she kept jumping on my head and on my feet under the blankets, chewing my chargers and getting into my things so I’ve kicked her out- she’s no longer allowed in my bedroom. My bedroom is my refuge and she ruins it. You could say ‘she just needs to play more’ she plays for hours and hours everyday and I’m sorry, but I need sleep so 3am is not playtime and she goes out the door. She constantly spills her water all over my hardwood floors, when I’m trying to work she won’t stop crying and scratching my door and I can’t even focus on work. If I let her in my office she chews on the cables for my computer so she is not allowed in there either. I have several limited edition books that she’s chewed the corners of, she’s scratched my doors, couch, carpet. I spend hours with her daily playing with wand toys, mice, everything and she has interactive toys as well and she still somehow ruins things around my home. She chewed the wires for my internet modem so now I have to get a new one. She gets in my kitchen sink, on my kitchen table and I’ve tried to discipline this behavior but she thinks it’s a game. It’s irritating and exhausting. Im reaching my limit. Its causing me so much stress knowing that ill wake up, probably fall down the stairs and find out she got into something else. I feel my only escape is to go into my room and kick her out so I can get some peace and space but then I know she’s likely downstairs ruining something of mine. At this point I resent her. She’s not calm at all, she’s not easy going. She’s like energy on steroids. I’m considering rehoming her, but other friends are telling me she’s still in her kitten phase and she’ll grow out of it. Advice?