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post #1 of 9
9/15/11 at 2:08pm
Thread Starter 
Okayy...

So I am having major issues with Bandit (the baby)

Everytime we open the outside door he feels he has to enjoy the great outdoors. It is soo hard to keep him back, I was wondering if there are anyt magic tricks? I seem to be able to do it, but my hubby can't keep him in!
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post #2 of 9
9/15/11 at 3:51pm
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Originally Posted by Nebula View Post
Okayy...

So I am having major issues with Bandit (the baby)

Everytime we open the outside door he feels he has to enjoy the great outdoors. It is soo hard to keep him back, I was wondering if there are anyt magic tricks? I seem to be able to do it, but my hubby can't keep him in!
There is no magic trick that I am aware of sorry. If anyone has one please share it cause I sure could use it with my F3 Savannah Loki.

The only way I have ever been able to open a door to the outdoors is with him shut in another room . He like your Bandit will run right out the door. But my Loki runs right down the middle of a busy road like a dog .

While Panda my DLH was found outside and never went outside again. Despite me offering it to her. She made herself an indoor cat , so no door dashing for her.

My two DSH's Momma and Shadow are indoor/outdoor cats. But they unlike Loki stay out of the road. When they where younger they explored the woods behind my home. But now they just vegetate on my property.

Can I ask why you want Bandit to be a stickily indoor cats? Not try to start trouble. I am just curious.
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post #3 of 9
9/15/11 at 3:57pm
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Sure

I want him indoors for lots of reasons

# 1- Neighbors let their dogs run loose
# 2 - We live 10 feet from a major highway
# 3 - Live in an apt and can't fence (I thought about fencing in both porches)

Finally, because he is my baby and I worry about him
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post #4 of 9
9/17/11 at 7:09pm
I read a post about putting the vacuum cleaner by the door. Since most cats dislike the sound and maybe the looks of a vacuum cleaner, it can deter a lot of kitty "escape artists".
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post #5 of 9
9/18/11 at 3:26pm
it was probably my post about the vacuum
I've found the post so here it is:

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My ex had door darters.

He placed his vacuum, turned on but unplugged, right next to the door, with the plug in easy reach.
Every time his girls went near the door, open or not, he would plug the vac in and startle them.

It only took a couple weeks, they aren't at all interested in the door now.
His vacuum lives next to the door as a friendly reminder.
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post #6 of 9
9/18/11 at 4:03pm
If the cat is scared of water, you can put a water bottle by the door and squirt him every time he goes near.

And on the vacuum idea...our dog is obsessed with the cat's litter box which is in a spare room blocked by a baby gate, that she learned to jump.

So, DH sat a running vacuum just inside the gate, turned it on and let it run for a couple of hours. Abby hates the vacuum. She has stopped jumping the gate.
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post #7 of 9
9/18/11 at 5:00pm
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Originally Posted by RAFM View Post
If the cat is scared of water, you can put a water bottle by the door and squirt him every time he goes near.
It's been also posted that squirting water may not be a good idea. There were 2 important reasons as I recall. First, the cat will associate you and not the door as the bad guy (since you are doing the spraying) and second, there is the risk of water getting inside the ears of the cat resulting to an infection.
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post #8 of 9
9/18/11 at 5:23pm
Wonder if placing a Ssscat sprayer near the door would work. Or perhaps the Scat mat?
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post #9 of 9
9/18/11 at 5:28pm
Jasper is the escape artist in my household

every time he hears a door open he runs for it, hence the reason Jasper now has a rather loud bell around his neck. You have to take offencive measures.
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