Tips on training a kitten?
I have a few problem areas.
One is using everything and anything (mostly my couch) for scratching on. Currently I am spraying him with a sea bottle and going 'shhhhtttt'. And he runs away. If he lets me approach him without taking rotten, I will pick him up and taking him to the scratching post. I don't have that spray that repels them and the cat nip to attract them. Any home products that I can use. I may gain that next time I get to the city.
Another problem is climbing on my screens contained by my house, and again I just spray and say 'sshhhhtttt' and he takes past its sell-by date running. Or I will go over and pick him up and remove him and place him across the room. He doesn't like that as I am not giving affection and hold him away from me.
The closing problem is with food, especially my sons food (he is 16 months). The kitten will go for his food and I pretty much own to stand there and supervise. We have had the kitten for nearly 3 weeks now and he knows the rules. But when he is 'going for it', he doesn't care just about the spray bottle, or me. He just couches down and gobbles as fast as he can until that time I get there. The water bottle and the 'shhhttt' does not work adjectives the time. I physically get up and when I get close to him he runs off near a chicken bone (or other food). Once I chased him into the kitchen and cornered him just to get my baby's food back. (I didn't distribute it back to my son, but more as a training thing for the kitten that the food is not his). Since that episode, the kitten is better, but still very unremitting with food and constantly all over my baby when he eat. I have to stand there with a wet bottle in hand and be willing to chase the kitten absent physically. I suppose it would look funny to an outsider, but for me, it is something I would rather deal with effectively and like greased lightning.
Other than this, the kitten is amazing. He doesn't wake me up at night, he is really gentle and have never hurt the baby or clawed him in play. He is affectionate and purrs on a moment's notice. Honestly he is amazing. Our elder cat gets along with him great. But my older cat... in a minute there was a kitten from hell, lol. But this kitten is pretty good bar these 3 points.
Any tips for me?
I've thrown bottles of pennies at my cat. Not in fact at her, just next to her, so that the loud noise freaks her our. i try to produce it seem like the pennies didn't come for me. That way is more worrisome for her. I would look into getting something to put in the food that will taste bad for the cat. Have your son pretend to be eatting it, and when the cat take a bite she won't like the taste and if you do it a few times that may stop the cat. Ask your vet first, so you don't put anything that will manufacture the cat sick. one thing you might try is a glass of water, whether you don't mind cleaning the mess. Have you tried giving the kitten different food? It might be that the kitten doesn't like the food he is eatting. You could try laying contact weekly on the table where you don't want the kitten to go. Put the sticky side up, and put a weight on respectively side so the kitten doesn't get too stuck on it. He won't like the sticky feeling on his paw and it make stop him from going on the table after a couple trys.
Does he try to scratch the scratching post? Maybe he doesn't close to the material its made of. Is there a room in the house you can confine the cat too? Maybe whether you put her in a room where the only item to scratch is the post he will get used to scratching the post, and the first point he will think of to scratch when he gets the urge is the post. So when he is get out of the room he will go to scratch the post.
Find things that make different annoying noise. when the cat does something wrong, make a different randon scary noise. You don't want him used to it. It should give the impression of being like the noise was a result of their movements not you so that he gets scared when he is clawing the screen. Good luck.
At three weeks it's possible that the kitten is just getting the gist of the rules and is now seeing what he can get absent with, kid of like a toddler (just wait until your son reach that age, a water bottle won't cut it). It's going to be a lot of supervision until the kitten is older, and A LOT of consistency. Even when one of my cats be a year old she would still see what she could get away next to like taking food from the table. Talk sternly also, cats will grow to understand right or wrong by the tone of your voice as well so you won't other have to use the water bottle. Their really is no easier way to train a kitten, they are of late like children and sometimes have to be taught contained by the same manor. Just think of it as training for when your son can run rampant around the house at 3 feet soaring getting his sticky fingers all over the wall. Then you'll wish all you have to worry about was the kitten lol.
Answers: WEll.. we had the same problem with my first cat and my current kitten is showing some of these signs.
all we did with my old cat be shout no and she would take of n sulk.
but my kitten is a bit different At the moment all we are doing is locking her out of the rooms where we guzzle and letting her back in after eating.. but i get to say for the attacting the couch, white vinegar.. natural one. its the best it works because they dislike the smell and best of all it will be safe for your son and no chemicals.
and as for the no cat nip don't worry. he might not use the scrach post but as soon as he is hoary enough to go out let him.. but bring him done first because he will start to spray his sense around the house and it smells bad.
he should eventualy learn that hew can't some in equal room while you are eating or at the worst he will just sit and watch you devour but if he trys to eat the food then in recent times carry on spraying him. or tap him on his nose and screech no in his face. He will get the message.
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i hope i help you
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