At 09:06 PM 6/11/04 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: >Gary Denton wrote: > >> Despite my kitten >> disliking being locked in the bathroom it continued when improper >> behavior - hoping on PC desk. It seems to have stopped when I >> switched to a squirtgun, however. > >Squirtgun is much more immediate, and it's easier for the cat to >associate the squirtgun with the behavior you're trying to stop. > >I was babysitting for someone who also had recently gotten a kitten, and >was instructed to squirt the kitten with a spray bottle if he did >anything he shouldn't. (They gave a list of behaviors they were trying >to break him of, plus there's the little thing of my not tolerating a >cat in my lap, due to allergies. The spray bottle was a lot more >effective on that cat than throwing another cat of similar age about >10'. Or maybe the cat being trained with the spray bottle was smarter >to begin with. The thrown cat was named Tequila....)
However, it is _not_ the best remedy for getting the cat to stop sitting on the top of the computer (or other electrical devices) . . .
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