How to Educate Our Cat

If it has handled well the cat from an early age, it is possible to teach the basic education to him through prizes and repetitions. For example, a delicacy is a way of doing that the cat is quiet while one brushes him. For that he does not make not wrong things at all, it is necessary to interrupt him telling him "NO! ". If it is necessary, it is possible to dissuade him using a pistol of water or an atomizer. It is not necessary to allow that the cat should see us, or he will learn that only he is sprayed when we are present.

The nervous or aggressive cats are more difficult to educate, but everything depends on how it is our relation with them. The training can improve it, because it means that it is necessary to give him much attention to the cat. This is very useful if ours is shy or solitary, or needs very much stimulus.

Q/A How do I teach my cat, Sidney, to come to me when I call him?

Appeal to his voracity, giving him a small quantity of his favorite food several times a day. Make a lot of noise on having filled the dish and put it in the floor and he will come running. Call him "Sidney, come here" and soon he will associate this order with the food. Try to call him with a delicacy. Duly, you can replace the food with praise and caresses.

My cat, Bosphorus, goes all over over the kitchen and on the table. Now he only does it when I am not there -I know it because he leaves its fingerprints all over. Can I put something in these surfaces in order that he is not raised?

First of all do not leave anything out- as food or toys – that could induce Bosphorus to come up. Try to cover the surfaces with a sheet of aluminium. The cats hate the sound of this material, creaking and slippery under his legs. Do it for several weeks and, later, only occasionally to reinforce the lesson. This must solve the problem.

Loli lives with us 5 years, since she had 3. She is perfectly polite and sociable until we try to catch her. Then she grumbles and even scratches. This is a nuisance when it is necessary to brush, put her in her basket to transport or to take her to the veterinarian to see her How can we achieve her not doing this?

If Loli has been always like that and her veterinarian is sure that there is no physical latent illness- as the artritis- it is possible that she behaves this way because she caught and handled a few when she was only a kitty. Many cats do not like anything to catch them, but if you start doing it when they have between 2 and 7 weeks, they accustomed immediately. If Loli is not happy in your lap, give delicacies to encourage her that is coming up. You must caress and speak to her with affection if she is quiet on it. As soon as she has accustomed to this, try to take her only a moment. Put her in the floor when she grumble, but if she let to take her and have her a few moments, reward her. If you make this exercise frequently, she will become friendlier.