Hi there (:
I have a cat that is about 7-8 months old now and despite our best efforts (and with any advice we've found on the Internet) we just don't get anywhere with correcting his behavior. He rips toilet paper and bread bags (+bread) to shreds whenever he gets his claws on them. He runs around on the counters and opens cabinets and thus gets his little paws on all our cooking surfaces and pots and pans. He is also attention seeking (and has been from the very start) and meows loudly and long whenever he is even remotely bored. He's got toys and we do play with him several times every day and give him a lot of love in general. But we're getting frustrated here. We've tried clapping our hands while saying NO, hissing and spraying with water, simply just lifting him away and ignoring his meowing (after checking he's alright naturally)... but even though its been MONTHS of this we just don't seem to be getting anywhere. What are we doing wrong? :/ It's making both parties unhappy, but we just want him to get the few rules we do have.
