Twilight knocked the package of cat treats down onto the ground and ripped it open

[applegrove]

so she could eat 3/4 of it overnight. What should I do: (scold her). What do I do: (feed her the rest because she is so cute). How do you discipline your pets?

[PoliticAverse]

1. What you should do is secure the cat treats better next time... n/t

[applegrove]

2. Will do.

[Hoyt]

3. Atticus says give her the rest, and buy her more.

[Paulie]

4. Have her post in Meta

[Lady Freedom Returns]

13. That is not punishment!

That is TORTURE!!!

[abolugi]

5. How do you discipline your pets?

I grab them and give them lots of kisses. Like LOTS of kisses... It confuses them so much they stop what they are doing!

[LeftofObama]

7. Me too!

I don't have pets anymore, but when I did that was the ONLY way they were disciplined. Kisses and hugs and playtime with just them and me usually stopped whatever behavior problems they were having. They were usually just bored.

[hollysmom]

6. More concerned about volune eating than discipline.

Most treats need to be limited because they can cause damage - see the jerky dog treats taht can cause kidney damage if fed more than advised (or maybe at all - don't give them to my 15 year old puppy). Treats are not meant to substitute for food.

ETA - Frowning at my dog makes her feel bad, I guess I try to bribe her (positive reinforcement) more than discipline her. Could be worse I was cat/dog sitting for a neighbor and she left a bad of catnip out, the cat ripped into it, and terrorized the dog, there was cat crap all over the house and all sorts of damage, took the dog to my house, cleaned up the remaining cat nip and locked the cat in for a day until it was safe to re-enter the house, then the cat slept for 2 days, heh, as I cleaned up.

[marzipanni]

8. Cat on drugs! That sounds like descriptions in the news sometimes

after a rock band stays in a hotel.

[hollysmom]

9. you should have seen the place

Rock bands could hardly do worse - the poor dog was hiding under the couch shaking.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. I was away from home for a few days, left the cats

with plenty of food and water available. Or so I thought.

When I got home all the food was gone. And so was all the butter, which I had left out in a covered butter dish - not thinking it would be vulnerable. Silly me.

I found the butter dish knocked over - the lid on the floor, the top on the counter; and the whole stick of butter had been eaten, except for bits that were smeared all over the floor.

[PoliticAverse]

12. They did have plenty of food, the butter thing was just to punish you...

for leaving them.

[Honeycombe8]

11. Wouldn't do any good to scold her at this point. Don't feed her the rest! She could get sick.

It's a wonder she didn't get sick already.

One of dogs did that with his chicken jerky treats. How he managed to get them, I don't know. But it was during the night. When I woke up, all over the bedroom floor were spots of poop and vomit. My poor boy had gotten really sick. Maybe he even ate one fo those bags in the treats that keeps moisture out. So of course I didn't scold him. I petted him, and watched him closely, to see if he was recovering, so I could take him to the vet, if necessary. He was fine.

I keep the treats in a closed cupboard, now. (Of course cats can sometimes open cupboards, so you have to be careful with that!)

[applegrove]

14. So far she has not gotten sick from too much of the treats. There are still a tiny

bit left but I'll wait and give it to her later in the week.

[LWolf]

15. I don't know how to discipline a cat.

Truly. I don't have to work at it to get them to use the litter box; they LIKE the litter box.

I can use a squirt bottle to keep them off of anything if I happen to be right there with a squirt bottle.

Other than that, they do as they will.

I'm in the process of fitting child safety thingies to all the drawers and cupboards to keep the current cat out of them.

[applegrove]

16. I put the tiny bit that was left in a wicker basket drawer. They are gone. Why that little %&*^#&*&!

[Major Nikon]

17. You hang a sign around their neck and post the picture

Seriously there's just no way to discipline a dog or cat after the fact. They would never understand why you are disciplining them. If you catch them in the act you can tell them no, or make a loud noise to frighten them off of whatever they are into.

For cat treats I recommend you store them in a sealed food storage container. They will keep longer enabling you to buy more in bulk and it will help to curb temptation.