Cat discipline advice needed.

[Brigid]

Every time I get on my computer, my younger cat jumps up on the desk and runs across the keyboard, sometimes messing up what I'm doing. What do you think -- shal I beat her half to death? Or would a severe scolding do it? :evilgrin:

[SoxFan]

1. Simply accept your lowly status

She's a cat. You aren't.

[Sanity Claws]

2. Talk to her and tell her why you don't want her to do that.

I'm not joking. You'd be surprised at how much they understand.

[Wcross]

3. Cat discipline?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Right after you teach it to fetch & roll over you will be able to teach it not to run across the keyboard!

(Both of mine do that, you'll get used to it.)

[montanto]

15. Cat Discipline?? It's an oxymoron.

Human discipline on the other hand.

[Critters2]

28. I know!!

Cat discipline?! :wtf:

[SacredCow]

4. It's not a cat-discipline issue...

It's a human training issue.

[Ikonoklast]

5. You shall soon accept your fate

Don't try to fight it, it will only be worse.
Resign yourself to the fact that you will soon acquiesce to your feline master's whims.
You are, after all, only a member of the 'staff', whose very existence is to serve.

[Greyskye]

6. Water in a spray bottle

Keep a small spray bottle on hand, and give her a squirt every time she jumps up on the desk. Reinforce with a stern 'no' as you're doing it. She'll stop.

Most cats figure out pretty quickly what your boundaries are. My cats know that I don't like them on tables, and won't ever jump up there when I'm around.

While the humans are away, on the other hand... :shrug:

[Dogtown]

8. BUT

don't aim at the cat *ON* the keyboard!

[Kerrytravelers]

19. ... unless you *really* want the kitty's attention.

[Dogtown]

21. You're so bad!

:spank:

[Rhythm]

34. Spray bottle = "hand of the angry CatGod"

If they don't actually see YOU do the squirting, then this technique works wonders, because they feel punished for what they did (and over time will avoid that behavior), but they don't equate you with the water.

[Greyskye]

42. Cats have this love/hate relationship with water...

[Kerrytravelers]

7. Perhaps she just wants you to get off her computer.

Really, you do understand that you now own nothing and everything belongs to the kitty.





:rofl:

[LynneSin]

9. This is a joke thread right - cat discipline

:rofl:

[BlueJazz]

10. Your Feline has a Friend that might not like you being mean to the Kitty.

:)

..

[undeterred]

11. "cat discipline" - the ultimate oxymoron

[TZ]

12. My cats have me well trained.

Sounds like you are in the learning process...:D

[sakabatou]

13. Perhaps a spray bottle or tinfoil?

[montanto]

14. Get used to it.

[Lex]

16. Accept it

and don't try to fight it.

Cats don't do the discipline thing.

[CreekDog]

17. do you want your cat to discipline you differently?

:shrug:

[montanto]

22. We all know you can't get that either.

[PeaceNikki]

18. .

[Brigid]

20. !!!

:rofl:

[Kali]

23. heh

:rofl:

[WildEyedLiberal]

24. Sorry, I stopped reading at "cat discipline"

:rofl:

In all seriousness, we keep a water gun around because he HATES water and will bolt for the hills if squirted. Even just pointing it at him is sufficient to make him scram most of the time, unless he's hellbent on causing mischief.

[Rhiannon12866]

25. Cats do that, LOL.

Mine used to add her own messages to my e-mail and I was always afraid she'd post on DU for me... But I was grateful, since when I rescued her, she was so afraid, always hid, so I really liked when she came out and would interact with me, finally... :-)

[Renew Deal]

26. The water bottle trick works well.

Get one of those laser pointer thingies and make the cat chase it for a while. That will wear her out.

[BornBlue]

27. We use an old Bailey's tin can

with some pennies in it. Shake it and the sound scares them away. May cat hasn't been on the dining room table in years. And to those nay-sayers, you can train a cat. Mine comes when you call her(to me anyway) and she also plays dead kitty. . . =)

[pokerfan]

29. How dare you pay attention to something other than her?

Cats are jealous gods.

[BreweryYardRat]

30. The squirt bottle idea sounds good. I may give that a try myself.

One of my mother's cats sits on the dining room table all the time, and will bite if you try to move her.

[applegrove]

31. Just grab her my the neck, point your finger in a "no" wagging fashion and

repeat "no no no no no" at the highest pitch you can attain. Works on my kitten all the time. She hates that.

[Peregrine Took]

40. How would you like it if someone grabbed you by the neck?

Such violence!!

Reminds me of knuckle draggers yanking their poor dogs by the neck on those choke chains.

If I were your cat I'd scratch your eyes out and get the hell away from you.

[applegrove]

44. I didn't mean hang her by her neck. I meant while she is on the ground

grab her from behind her head so she has to pay attention to you and then do the no no no no. Otherwise she will look away at the first hint of a scold and do the cat equivalent of "lalalalala I can't hear you".

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

[applegrove]

32. Water pistol.

[Zuiderelle]

33. You should kiss her for being so cute, and then thank the heavens that you are so lucky

to be graced with such cuteness in your life.

[SOteric]

35. When my cat was a kitten I just picked him gently up off the keyboard

by the scruff of his neck and deposited him on the floor. He didn't much care of that and still doesn't, but he quickly learned where to be to avoid being picked up in such a manner. On the other hand, he is the greatest kitty in the whole world, so your mileage may vary. :7

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

36. Cat? Discipline?

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[begin_within]

37. What do you mean "YOUR" computer?

The cat is just letting you use it.

[AlGore-08.com]

38. You need to get you a pair of kitty handcuffs...

[Peregrine Took]

39. Neither, you idjit. Just be thankful your kitty is enjoying life and in such

good health.

I'm not sure you deserve to be in the same house as a cat.

[Peregrine Took]

41. I'm ashamed you are a Cubs fan.

[harmonicon]

43. send her over here

If she catches this fucking mouse in my house, she can run on my keyboard all I want and get it out of her system.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

45. Sunny only has to LOOK at the spray bottle and he stops his mischief

I think that should do the trick.