Hi all!
Lookin' for some advice on Mischief. Now that he's bigger (a whoppin' 4#'s at 11 weeks,
), he's learnin' he can do all sorts of fun things...
...like jump onto the dining table while we're eating...
...or counter surf while I'm preparing meals...
He is our first kitten, the cats that we had in the past never did either of these so we had no idea they have to be taught not to. Dh thought it was cute, him scurrying around the table at 2#'s, at 4#'s it's not so cute and when he's full grown it'll be downright gross.
So can a cat be trained? I don't mean like dogs, I know they don't work that way, but can they be taught that tables and counters are no-no's? My parents use a spray bottle to keep Cooper off but after 7 months, Cooper still gets up on their's so I'm thinkin' that spray bottles don't really work as a permanent solution. Whatever the previous owners of the adult cats we used to have did worked because those girls never even tried.
Lookin' for some advice on Mischief. Now that he's bigger (a whoppin' 4#'s at 11 weeks,
...like jump onto the dining table while we're eating...
...or counter surf while I'm preparing meals...
He is our first kitten, the cats that we had in the past never did either of these so we had no idea they have to be taught not to. Dh thought it was cute, him scurrying around the table at 2#'s, at 4#'s it's not so cute and when he's full grown it'll be downright gross.
So can a cat be trained? I don't mean like dogs, I know they don't work that way, but can they be taught that tables and counters are no-no's? My parents use a spray bottle to keep Cooper off but after 7 months, Cooper still gets up on their's so I'm thinkin' that spray bottles don't really work as a permanent solution. Whatever the previous owners of the adult cats we used to have did worked because those girls never even tried.