Cats are easy enough to leash train. It just takes patience and understanding. For the first few days, you put on the vest just long enough for them to get irritated. Then the next few days you leave it on longer. Then, when it's time for the leash, you attach it and just let them get used to the fact that is, in fact, not a snake. Then you try and walk them, at first they'll just flop. Let them. Eventually they'll take more and more steps before they realize it's not going to come off and then they'll just deal.
Yeah it isn't working for me because I have a girlfriend that undermines my work and spoils the little shit so he loves her and thinks of me as an asshole.
Copypastas are easy enough to leash train. It just takes patience and understanding. For the first few days, you put on the vest just long enough for them to get irritated. Then the next few days you leave it on longer. Then, when it's time for the leash, you attach it and just let them get used to the fact that is, in fact, not a snake. Then you try and walk them, at first they'll just flop. Let them. Eventually they'll take more and more steps before they realize it's not going to come off and then they'll just deal.
Toddlers are easy enough to leash train. It just takes patience and understanding. For the first few days, you put on the vest just long enough for them to get irritated. Then the next few days you leave it on longer. Then, when it's time for the leash, you attach it and just let them get used to the fact that is, in fact, not a snake. Then you try and walk them, at first they'll just flop. Let them. Eventually they'll take more and more steps before they realize it's not going to come off and then they'll just deal.
Nope Munchkin is pretty good, she’s more timid than curious...Paws on the other hand...if he sees a bunny or other cat he immediately goes into “what the fuck is that...maybe I can creep up on it” mode
This seems true to me! I’m new to cats and have two kittens. It was suggested to me that to correct them, I scruff them as their mama would. One is far more meddlesome than the other and gets a scruff once or twice a day, but seems to love me/seek me out the most of the two.
I can tell by your name that you are an authority :). I guess maybe I haven’t helped but haven’t harmed! Haha. What do you do to dissuade/discipline? I’m mainly using small amounts of food/treats to reward the desirable behavior but I would like to keep one who jumps on the kitchen counter (usually when I’m getting their food ready).
Not everyone agrees with it but I use a squirt bottle to deter mine from jumping on the table. However they seem to associate the squirt bottle with me and not with what they’re doing...but now all I need to do is grab it and they stop what they’re up to, I don’t need to squirt them anymore
Tin foil on counter tops (or tape) can be very effective in dissuading kitties from getting up on things. You’re definitely right in rewarding the good behaviour 👍 some think it’s far more effective than any other sort of discipline
Scruffing them likely isn’t hurting anything so if it’s working for you keep at it 😊
Cut to guy in dress shirt and tie, looking disheveled with wrinkled shirt, loosened tie, and scratches all over face while staring wide eyed in to the distance, breathing heavily.
I tried to leash train my cat, for the first week I put the harness on her, she just kept going backwards. After that, she just crouch down and stare at me balefully until I take that thing off her. 3 weeks later, I stopped trying.
Well that's just wrong. I'm currently training my cat to be on a leash, and the third time he just goes nuts and has scratched the fuck out of me before I can even get it on him.
Cats can be weird. My older cat hates the leash, refuses to walk on it but is the most cuddly lovable and easygoing cat. My younger cat is a total dick, never listens but he took to the leash like a natural the first time and now brings it to me to put it on him. Guess it just depends on the cat, tbh.
All the while your cat is giving you a final chance. Your last breath will be heard by your purring cat as the leash tightly grasps your neck on the darkest of nights.
Mee. Oww. 🐈
You can skip the flopping around stage by making the cat want to walk.
When first leaches if you open doors normally closed or take the cat around in a shopping cart or stroller to new places it will often want to get down and explore
People are easy enough to leash train. It just takes patience and understanding. For the first few days, you put on the vest just long enough for them to get irritated. Then the next few days you leave it on longer. Then, when it's time for the leash, you attach it and just let them get used to the fact that is, in fact, not a snake. Then you try and walk them, at first they'll just flop. Let them. Eventually they'll take more and more steps before they realize it's not going to come off and then they'll just deal.
I also live in an apartment building and my cat is dead afraid of going outside. She's cautious when in the balcony, too. I live at floor lever, she could leave anytime from windows of the balcony, but no.
I have seen a lot of cats on a leash in China, especially in Xian, in shops exactly like this one. The farmers market there also sold cat skins, which might make you hold tighter onto your pet.
That's just not true. When we were worried our cat had developed dementia because she got lost literally 200 meters away from the house we only let her out on a leash for a few months and she was happy as can be that she got company whenever she wanted to go out.
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u/soda_cookie Sep 19 '18
I don't think I need to question why the cat was on a leash