Anyone know why a cat would claw at the mat of a closed door, even when they know they capture contained by trouble?
We've tried squirting with water but as soon as the door opens he take off and you can't get it under the door. Plus he take off as soon as he hears movement in the room heading to the door.
He wants into the room. Not much you can do but put down some of that plastic runner for protecting carpet. Not too attractive, but hopefully will help save your mat until your cat decides he's fighting a losing battle. Best of luck to you.
He dosen't want the door close. My cats do the same thing. I just started to walk out the door open and they stopped. Your cat want to be with you because he is use to that you can't change near ways. your cat will love the baby on the way he will not hurt it. He will help you near the new arrive. We had a cat that did that. He sat near us when we fed the baby, he show the baby how to crowl on hand and feet. and when the baby was doing something wrong he would meow til we come to see what the baby was doing.
he could want to turn outside
Cats want to be WITH their "people". If you shut them out of a room that you're contained by, they think they're being "abandoned"!!
Unless there's something in that room that would spoil the cat..why not just let him in?
I hold 12 indoor cats, and they take turn sleeping on / with me. Makes it nice and warm surrounded by the winter! :-)
Hope this helps..Good luck.
Answers: A cat leaves a scent from it's claws when it scratch something. What the cat is actually doing is marking it's territory. It recognises the door as a boundary to it's nouns and thus marks it. If you can leave the door open and it should stop as the cat will expand it's realm.
He doesn't like the door being closed. My cats ripped the heck out of my carpet beneath my bedroom door because I close it at night. Now I have to shove pillows under in that so they can't reach the carpet. Sorry, but this is part of have a cat. They do that.
I hold to agree with the others here.
The cat probably wants in in attendance because he knows it's some place he isn't allowed to be at.
Mine, and I know plenty of other people do this to, have come into the bathroom, or own scratched at the bathroom door when I've been inside and closed the door to take care of trade or just take a shower or a bath.
If you want to curb him from doing that, you may want to thieve Corey Williams / Mr. Safety's helpful advice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rje1TEmvV... He's got 2 cats of his own (and he loves them dearly. It shows surrounded by every video he does). Though his situation isn't identical to yours, it may prove helpful.
You can let the cat into the bedroom, tolerate it have a good look and sniff around. You know, to satisfy his curiousity. Let him know freshly what's in there so he won't keep wondering roughly it (not any different than if you or I were in a big house and here was a closed door we were told not to go into. We'd want to see contained by there!)
Once the cat has gotten a good look around, terrify him out of the room. Let him know that that is NOT a place he wants to be in. (I denote, if you went into a room you weren't suppose to go into, and get the living daylights scared out of you, would YOU really want to go back into it?)
Also, next to a baby on the way, (if you didn't already know this, I apologize if you do) create sure you invite your cat to the new arrival process. He probably doesn't understand that you're preparing for a kid, a whole new little life and lots of unsullied smells, to be in the house and, if he's anything like the youngest of my 3 cats, he'll probably obtain very jealous and distant if you don't include him contained by things, get him ready for the new arrival, and allow him to know that, though near WILL be something new in the house, your cat is still loved through petting and playing and good ol' attention giving. (Or doesn`t matter what method you know your cat enjoys the most.)
When I went to a crystal dig hindmost in 2005 and brought home a BUNCH of new crystals, my youngest cat, Chalice, saw me on the floor near the crystals, cleaning them. Chalice took one look at them, then at me, then went to the far closing of the room turned his back on me, and refused to look at me or my mom when we called his pet name. It took a full 3 days of attention, petting, sweet talking, and his favorite treat (wet cat food) to let him know that, though I had something contemporary in the house to get my attention, it looked new, it smelled up to date, it was new, I still loved him and cared in the order of him. Trust me, the little furballs are a lot more emotional and perceptive than we offer them credit for being.
I was lucky with Chalice. He sulked and unseen me and forced ME to go to HIM. He easily could've acted out by spraying or clawing the walls. (Which some have be known to do. Cats are a LOT like little kids, and when they're use to having attention and don't own it, or if something is new, they'll act out for the attention, even whether they know it'll get them into trouble.)
I hope this has helped on some tiny horizontal. Good luck with your cat, and may he enjoy a long, healthy, and beaming life!
my cats do the same thing.
its because they want to win out of the room there in. They kinda feel trapped.
they do it because it keeps their claws in good shape. it stretches them, sharpens them, and keep them stronger and healthier
it feels soooo good!
Cats don't have morals. They tend to see things as what the cat desires and what the cat doesn't want. The cat wants the door open and the cat will try to figure out a bearing to open the door. It doesn't see opening the door as wrong, only as something you don't particularly want.
