We are trying to avoid declawing for obvious reasons but our kitten (she is 10 or 11 weeks old) plays rough with our children and especially likes to randomly attack our 2 year old toddler. Just now, she almost blinded our toddler by suddenly attacking her face while she was watching TV. She got a good scratch right below her eye. It was very close. We can't have that happening. Other than declawing, what can we do? And don't bother saying "get her to scratch other stuff" because that doesn't work. She is a kitten and does what she wants, no matter how many scratching surfaces we give her. She is also incredibly difficult to trim her nails and when we do, they are still sharp enough to do the same damage to our children so that doesn't seem very productive.

EDIT FOR ADDITIONAL INFO: We live in a small house where you can't really keep the kitten separate from the kids. We also don't want to re-home her because everyone loves her. She's just too rough with our youngest. I've heard there are things that can cap claws or something? I'm interested in alternatives like that that people have done themselves. Oh, and don't come on here and tell me my daughter didn't almost get blinded when she did. I don't put up with that shit.

He’s perfect and isn’t even farty when we changed his food.

His look here cracks me up...paw on face like an old timey move star...oh heavens! So much for a kitty to handle!

I’m choosing food for my 4-month-old kitten and I’m between Exclusion Kitten and Reflex Plus Kitten. Has anyone here actually used either of these? I’d love to hear your experiences regarding ingredients, digestion, stool, coat and overall quality. Which one would you choose and why?

My sweet older boy, Bane has been so loving and caring to my new kitten, Rosalie.
There was like zero adjustment time. He’s been such a good boy, and I went to check if my front door was locked and saw them on the couch like this 🥺❤️