Make cat stop bother my 'chids

[Pantsonfire]

I don't own the cats in my house either, but while they eat my roomates plants, they don't eat mine.
My plants are no different than yours, and the cats are no different. The rules are the only difference. I don't tolerate certain behavior.

The similarity with cats and dogs is that we wouldn't invite wild uncontrollable animals into our houses. Coyotes are great mouse hunters, but there is a reason they aren't pets. They are wild animals who cannot be trained. If cats and dogs weren't controllable, they wouldn't be in millions of houses around the world. The fact that they aren't controlled by some owners isn't the animals fault, it is the owners fault.

There is a show on TV called "The Dog Whisperer". Some people can't figure out how to control their dogs. It isn't the dogs fault, it is the owners fault. Watch an episode and you will see that not all dogs have masters. "dogs have masters, cats have slaves" is an excuse used by cat owners to cover their failure to control the animals.


As the man on the show says "I rehabilitate dogs, and I train people".

The same thing applies to cats. You get what you tolerate.

[RosieC]

The cats we had when I was a kid were definately the masters, but then they were farm cats as we let them do their own thing (they mostly fed themselves as well).

But they were not allowed in the house, and they knew it and didn't even try even when we weren't looking.

But HOW do you train them to different behaviour? That I can't claim to know.

[Louder Than Hell]

Originally Posted by Pantsonfire

I don't own the cats in my house either, but while they eat my roomates plants, they don't eat mine.
My plants are no different than yours, and the cats are no different. The rules are the only difference. I don't tolerate certain behavior.
The similarity with cats and dogs is that we wouldn't invite wild uncontrollable animals into our houses. Coyotes are great mouse hunters, but there is a reason they aren't pets. They are wild animals who cannot be trained. If cats and dogs weren't controllable, they wouldn't be in millions of houses around the world. The fact that they aren't controlled by some owners isn't the animals fault, it is the owners fault.

There is a show on TV called "The Dog Whisperer". Some people can't figure out how to control their dogs. It isn't the dogs fault, it is the owners fault. Watch an episode and you will see that not all dogs have masters. "dogs have masters, cats have slaves" is an excuse used by cat owners to cover their failure to control the animals.


As the man on the show says "I rehabilitate dogs, and I train people".

The same thing applies to cats. You get what you tolerate.

Cats can be trained indeed but I'm sure you agree it's more difficult than with dogs. In this case he feels the NEED to eat vegetables so whenever he cant be "grounded" because i cant see him he just eat mine.
I'm sure he hasn't been trained properly by his owner because I see that everyday but now I've got this problem and I'm trying to solve it as I can

But HOW do you train them to different behaviour? That I can't claim to know.

Usually he isn't allowed in the room because of hairs dropping but that just raised his curiosity of cat with a scout spirit so he came in whenever he can.
From time to time I let him in and recently I'm trying to let him come so that I can see if he try tro bite plants to persuade him.....so now he understand he can't but he just wait for me to turn so he cant start

[Kai]

I suggest a three pronged approach. Provide him with plants he can eat, move him when ever you see him near your 'chids (to reinforce that you don't want him there), and make the area around the 'chids unpleasant to him with the citrus-scented potpourri (or citrus water).

ETA: A cat is not a dog. A cat will test your boundaries on a regular basis. Even if he figures out that you do not want him near the orchids, he will still test you once in a while. ALWAYS be consistent with him.

[Louder Than Hell]

Originally Posted by Kai

I suggest a three pronged approach. Provide him with plants he can eat, move him when ever you see him near your 'chids (to reinforce that you don't want him there), and make the area around the 'chids unpleasant to him with the citrus-scented potpourri (or citrus water).

ETA: A cat is not a dog. A cat will test your boundaries on a regular basis. Even if he figures out that you do not want him near the orchids, he will still test you once in a while. ALWAYS be consistent with him.

Thanks a lot Kai!
I gonna try this

[natasha]

cats are very much a creature of habits...

my husband used to bring his favourite cat in our bedroom (actually i like it too, just for companion) but after sometime, the cat will cry out whenever we didn't allow her in. sometimes we give up and let her in. by after sometime of letting her yowl in front of the door, she gets the idea and be quiet. the only problem it 'what my neighbours will think?'. her cries is very loud and high pitched too! i don't have any qualms letting her yell her hearts out. we didn't let her or her mates in anymore. no matter how much they cry out! but finally they get the idea!

cats are very much like kids, when you're too okay with everything, they walk all over you. once a rule is set, don't bend it!

[ardera]

I have cats, and of course one of them is starting to nibble on my orchids too. What I had done in the past, to keep them off my counters and tables, was get a spray bottle, and whenever they were somewhere they shouldn't be, give them a couple squirts. The one cat learned very quickly, and would run whenever he saw me pick up the bottle. The other one was always too quick and would run off before I could squirt her. Now occasionally, when I have come home unexpectedly, I would still find them on the counter (or table) but they would run off as soon as they saw me. Try a squirt bottle though, it really worked well for me.

[ardera]

OK, so when I got home at lunch, low and behold, my bad kitty was sitting in my orchid window! He even had the nerve to meow at me through the window as I unlocked my door! My orchids were on a table in front of the window, so I grabbed a spare shelf, from my baker's rack, and nailed that puppy to the window ledge. Then I moved my orchids onto that rack, with the heaviest pot right in front of where he usually accesses the window. Hopefully that works. Just a temporary fix, until I can get a slightly larger platform for my 'chids to sit on in the window, since they are kind of smushed up against the window now.