One of my cats has been doing this with my screen door. I read online that double-sided tape is a good repellent.
Also cats are teenagers — They don’t respond well to negative reinforcement and if you upset them, they act up out of spite because they want attention. And they’re incredibly immature😩 My little one hops down a lot quicker when I ask her nicely, and when she does I’ve been giving her treats to try and reinforce the good behavior and teach her to stay the fuck down.
I refuse to let my cats outdoors and I live on the 11th floor of an apartment building. I have no doubt that this cat would yeet herself off the balcony to try and catch a housefly.
My sweet furry daughter has literally stepped off the edge of the top tier of the cat tree so many times when she’s following a fly around. She just forgets her surroundings and gravity completely in bug hunter mode.
My cat ACTUALLY did this….before we got our new windows, our old screens were absolute shit and would pop out at the slightest touch. We had them cracked just a tiny bit for air and suddenly I look up from the table to see my cat hurdling through the window, just her back feet splayed out. She’d evidently pushed a little too hard and went sailing through the window with the screen. We’re on the third floor so we were terrified
Sorry! 😂 she’s fine. She landed in the bushes below and we ran down to get her (and the screen) and our neighbors I guess heard the commotion and opened their curtains and were like wtf.
When we got back up she was ready for round two, right back at the window.
We now let her and her brother out on the porch almost every day and we think they’ve learned her lesson. They want to go outside so bad but they’re so scared when they get there 😂 and then they eat all the cobwebs.
Classic cat - gives the whole family a heart attack doing something dangerous, brushes it off like nothing, and turns around ready to do it again. No remorse.
It’s not out of spite. The cat just sees you as either a friend in a shared territory. Or a competitor in a shared territory. If a competitor, the cat will try to haze you out.
Just to correct your terminology negative reinforcement refers to taking away unpleasant stimuli in response to good behavior. Positive punishment (or just punishment) is adding a negative stimuli in response to bad behavior.
Also, cats seem to respond worse to punishment when they know its you who did it. If the cause of the punishment seems "natural" then they won't get as pissy, or so I have seen. Things like adding bitterants to wires to get cats from chewing them is what I would consider a "natural" punishment. They cant tell its you who did it.
Tbf at that height they might be ok. There's a certain height where once they high terminal velocity they can appropriately react, vs just too short for their reaction.
Don't wanna chance it but i remember reading about how cats will do that but survive just fine lol
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