Anyone good w/ kittens?

[izembo]

when you buy a gallon of milk, take the ring off of it and give it to the cat. for some reason most of my cats have loved to play with them

[Moss]

Pee sitting down?

"Cat turns man into woman!"

[Tharen]

I hate fucking cats with a passion. Do what I did when my wife brought one home a few months ago. Scare the fuck out of it every chance you get then it'll stay away from you forever. I was fine with the cat in the beginning but it liked to claw my toes in the morning that hung out over the blankets as I was sleeping. I had to end that shit quickly.

[Demosthenes11]

I hate fucking cats with a passion. Do what I did when my wife brought one home a few months ago. Scare the fuck out of it every chance you get then it'll stay away from you forever. I was fine with the cat in the beginning but it liked to claw my toes in the morning that hung out over the blankets as I was sleeping. I had to end that shit quickly.

fuck i dont understand people like you. kittens are cuter than cute. putting your foot under the blankets and moving it around while the kitty chases it is one of the simple joys in life. my cat I've had my entire conscious life died a few weeks ago and I miss the fuck out of her

[Tharen]

fuck i dont understand people like you. kittens are cuter than cute. putting your foot under the blankets and moving it around while the kitty chases it is one of the simple joys in life. my cat I've had my entire conscious life died a few weeks ago and I miss the fuck out of her

I just don't like cat's. I didn't bother with her until she was clawing at my toes every morning. I don't abuse the cat by no means if that's what you're getting at, I just scare her so she stays away from me.

[Einherjar]

The squirt bottle does work wonders, if they are only mildly put off by it, get in the face with it, no cat likes that. Also what some people said about giving it time is true, soon enough you'll be wondering where the hell the cat is. My cat still comes in while I'm using the can, and she's 10, but I just ignore her, although maybe I'll try standing over her in litter box sometime, see how she likes that.

[Max™]

Tape, laser pointer, catnip, squirt bottle, and the ability to imitate a blow-off valve: "PSSSTTTT!".

Cats have odd attention spans, if they are focused on something, grab their attention suddenly, they will usually flip out amusingly, then scram.

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[Ivaden]

Fucking love when they hop sideways like that LOL it's just too bad they seem to grow out of the hopping part (at least all of my cats always have)

[Arrmani]

I've never seen a kitten do that. This thread just makes me want one now.

[Siniroth]

In addition to the squirt bottle, cause it gets annoying to carry it around all the time, while you squirt them, snap your fingers, and eventually start snapping your fingers just before, they'll associate it to some degree with the bottle and react to the snap, though if they're feeling stubborn it won't do anything (I've got a pretty good success rate with it with my cat, who I've had since he was a kitten, but when he wants to do something he'll do it anyways, he IS a cat)

[Colenzo]

My step-cousin brought home a kitten and while I have no major problem with it, it can be annoying. If I'm outside of my room, I don't mind petting it for a few mins before continuing about my business. it's young, playful, etc. That's fine as well. It'll chase after my leg and try to play w/ me while I'm walking. That's fine too.


I let it into my room once, and this is where I'm not ok with it. Tried to play w/ my computer wires, controller wires, etc. Anything dealing with electronics. Cat got put out with the quickness. Now every time I try to go into my room it tries to run in realllly fast before I manage to close the door, then once I do manage to get it out, it proceeds to use my door as a scratch post, which I'm also not ok with, as it's a wooden door.


It also tries to force its way into the bathroom before I can close the door. That I'm also not cool with. The first time, I didn't rly give a shit. Omg a cat is gonna see my penis! No big deal, but when I'm pissing and it jumps up onto the toilet while I'm doing it, then I have a problem.


So, any recommendations as to how to handle the situation?

The cat scratching the door means it either wants in or out. I blasted my cat with piss when it hopped on to the toilet, never did it again.

[Deadgye]

As the last poster said, just blast the cat with piss. It'll get the hint. The cat is going to scratch the door because it wants in/out so nothing to do about that really. Tidy up the room and keep all important wires not dangled or something?

I usually leave my doors open just a crack so my cat and late cat could get in/out if they needed- bathroom included. (We put the litterbox in there for when the cat can't get outside.)

[Cream Soda]

Tidy up the room and keep all important wires not dangled or something?

My laptop sits on a milk crate, so naturally, everything else in on the floor. There's no desk or anything to put wires behind. It just sits to the side of the crate that faces the wall.

[kisada]

when you buy a gallon of milk, take the ring off of it and give it to the cat. for some reason most of my cats have loved to play with them

haha i used to do this with one of my rm's cats. not only did he love it, he'd play fetch with it. it kinda got annoying since no matter where we threw it, he'd find it and come back.


btw squirt gun works fine, but those party favor whistles (the ones that unfurl when you blow) are awesome. i got my rm's cat to stay away for 2 months with that thing. he'd take one look at me, i'd stick the whistle in my mouth and he'd be gone.

[Deadgye]

My laptop sits on a milk crate, so naturally, everything else in on the floor. There's no desk or anything to put wires behind. It just sits to the side of the crate that faces the wall.

Only solution is to go to target and ask them for some free boxes. :D

[Uzor]

Cats are generally harder to teach than dogs. Not because they lack intelligence (cats, like dogs, have no understanding with the concept of "if I push this ball, it will move", or "That hand moves this"), it's because they - unlike dogs - are not flock animals and have no understanding of hierarchy like dogs do. Dogs think "I'm on his turf and he's the leader, I better do as he say", whereas cats normally think "This is my turf. I can tolerate him living here.".

It is still possible to teach a cat, though, but it takes more patience. Like people said earlier, spraying it with water is possible, but you might have to do it a lot until it learns that an action results in an uncomfortable response. Peeing on the cat works, but that's not something you can do it it jumps up on the kitchen table Another highly effective method, though, is to just grab it by the neck skin and carry it out or put it down whenever it does something you don't like. When you spray the cat with a bottle, the cat doesn't know it's you that do it, it just find itself wet and don't know why. As such, it might go away because it simply don't like to be wet. Eventually it will learn that doing that action gets it wet, which will make it avoid it. If grab it by the neck skin (especially while it's a kitten), it will become very relaxed, allowing you to put it down, resulting in it slacking and calmly sit/lay down when you put it to the ground. Reason is because that's how their mothers carry them when they move them around, and the cat will sit there relaxed for about 3 seconds until it goes back to do whatever you carried it away from. If you repeat the action a few more times, though, it'll learn that you don't approve and leave. The difference being that the cat knows that it is you that moves it and that you want it to stay away. It's how I've taught all of my cats to stay away from the kitchen table and whatever else I don't want them to do in the 15 years I've had cats and kittens.

Another thing you need to remember is to get it a scratching post, unless you want to declaw it (which is something I don't recommend, I've had no problem with cats and kittens ever scratching anything with a scratch post). Also; you need to remember to never play with the kitten with your hands. Yes, it's very cute when you play with it as a kitten, but it sucks when it thinks you're playing with it whenever you pet it's stomach as an adult. So if you're petting the cat and it starts playing with you with it's claws out, pull your hand away and wait until it calms down, or give it a toy. Additionally, pet it's paws a lot as a kitten. It builds up the trust (as cats generally do not like getting petted on the paws), as well as teaches it that you're allowed to do whatever you want to it without protest.

You should also start early with taking it's food/toys away if it hisses at you. If it do, take whatever it has away from it, wait a little while and then give it back. Rinse and repeat until it stops hissing or do otherwise threatening sounds. This is especially important if you ever have small kids around, whom love to take things away from the animal's mouthes. It also makes it a whole lot easier if it's an outdoor cat that occasionally drags things like snakes, rats, mice, bats or birds in (or, if it's like my devil cat, a reindeer leg...).

You don't HAVE to do all of the abovementioned things, cats are generally very gentle. But it's helpful in order to remove any annoying habits cats can have. Kittens are, by nature, extremely curios, and a lot of them will go away with age (such as attacking your feet in your sleep; playfulness reduces with age). Cord biting usually goes away by itself as well. Spraying water isn't something I would recommend around electronic equipment, so in that case the neck-grabbing technique works well.

Cat seem fond of you though. Otherwise it wouldn't chase after you

[Psion]

Just remember, cats, like elephants, never forget. If you punish it by spanking it, hitting it, or doing anything that it can associate with you, it will hold a grudge against you forever. Never physically punish a cat.

Laser pointers are one of the best toys you can get a cat, and quite entertaining to watch in action. They're also useful for other stuff... I guess. Giving cats lots of toys to play with and actually spending time to play with them will help keep them entertained and too tired to bother with your wires. Some other great toys are anything involving feathers, crinkly items such as a plastic bag tied in knots into a ball, a crumpled up aluminum foil ball, strings, and if your cat is susceptible to it, catnip for hours of (your own) amusement. The more variety in types, shapes, and interactions, the better off your cat will be and the more likely they will stay entertained. Cats are easily amused, but they do need variety, or they get bored.

And to clarify on holding a cats nape, it is true that you can grab the back of its neck to calm it down, as it reminds it of its mother. HOWEVER, DO NOT LIFT THEM BY THE NAPE WHEN THEY ARE BIGGER. The nape is designed for kittens, not a full grown cat. You can sometimes hurt a cat by putting all its weight on the nape, especially for bigger breeds like Maine Coons that can weigh 20-25 lb normally. You can still grab their nape to get them to calm down, but do not use it as a kitty handle.

[Baelorn]

My laptop sits on a milk crate, so naturally, everything else in on the floor. There's no desk or anything to put wires behind. It just sits to the side of the crate that faces the wall.

Give it something else to play with. When my cat started playing with my wires I put some straws on a string and then tied that to the doorknob or bedpost. You could try putting something like that on the outside of the door if you want to distract it when you close the door.

I don't recommend pissing on its head unless you want to risk it taking a swipe at your dick.

As for catnip..My cat just falls in love with the floor when I give it to him.

[Uzor]

Not all cats like catnip, and not all cats goes crazy from it either

And yeah, holding it by the nape (didn't know that what it's called) is not recommended when they're bigger as it hurts them, but by that point they should be trained already.

[Xiona]

grab the scruff of its neck, hiss, and walk away. thats how mom cats teach anyways.