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Yelling at my cats is usually enough to get them to knock that kind of thing off. My female is usually them one doing the attacking, though - she's a tortoise shell calico and generally doesn't put up with any crap from my two boys.

I've read a lot of places that advise squirting a cat with a spray bottle or squirt gun when it misbehaves. That might be worth trying, but I do wonder - if the logic holds true that hitting a cat only teaches it to fear you because it cannot correlate the punishment with the behavior, how does...

Hi all, I'm a newbie here who is hoping for some advice. I have three cats, all of which are mostly well-behaved. One of my male cats, 9 years old, has long been in the habit of meowing a lot and making other types of noise in the middle of the night in order to get me to feed him. This was...