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Need Some Help with Kitty Discipline
March 16, 2005
| AQG
Posted on 03/15/2005 9:25:15 PM PST by AQGeiger
I am wondering if some of the more animal-knowledgeable folks on FR know of ways to discipline cats. My normally very loving kitty has murdered my fish. And I think she ate him as well...I haven't found a body.
My cat is my first real pet, so I don't know if there's a way to train cats so they know not to do something. I already threw a handful of water in her face as soon as I found the crime scene. Any helpful information would be very appreciated.
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: catdiscipline; murderingkitty
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My poor fish! And he was a Republican fish, too...his name was George W.
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posted on
03/15/2005 9:25:16 PM PST
by
AQGeiger
To: AQGeiger
To: AQGeiger
Get a squirt bottle. Every time your kitty murders something you didn't want it to, say "NO!!!" in a loud, firm voice and squirt the kitty in the face (on the mist setting is fine).
To: AQGeiger
A cat's gotta do what a cat's gotta do. Perhaps a screen over the fish bowl?
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posted on
03/15/2005 9:28:32 PM PST
by
Drango
(All my ideas, good or bad, are stolen from other FReepers)
To: AQGeiger
Here's my advice - get a dog!
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posted on
03/15/2005 9:29:03 PM PST
by
headsonpikes
(Spirit of '76 bttt!)
To: AQGeiger
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posted on
03/15/2005 9:29:04 PM PST
by
jwalburg
(Those buried included children still clutching toys)
To: AQGeiger
Also, take away your kitty's assault rifle.
To: AQGeiger
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posted on
03/15/2005 9:32:52 PM PST
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all)
To: AQGeiger
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posted on
03/15/2005 9:34:21 PM PST
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: VisualizeSmallerGovernment
Ok, you were quicker with the draw.
:)
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posted on
03/15/2005 9:35:09 PM PST
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: AQGeiger
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posted on
03/15/2005 9:37:03 PM PST
by
stylin19a
(I will become a Democrat on my deathbed....better one of them dies than a good Republican)
To: AQGeiger
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posted on
03/15/2005 9:37:45 PM PST
by
Drango
(All my ideas, good or bad, are stolen from other FReepers)
To: AQGeiger; Slings and Arrows
I already threw a handful of water in her faceNot good, as cats, and unlike dogs work in real-time and don't respond to discipline. But they always understand LOVE.
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posted on
03/15/2005 9:37:53 PM PST
by
quantim
(Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
To: AQGeiger
Well, wait a minute - what kind of fish was this?
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posted on
03/15/2005 9:38:31 PM PST
by
general_re
("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
To: AQGeiger
Your cat was just being a cat, AQ.
Buy a new fish and re-locate the bowl or aquarium.
Jack.
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posted on
03/15/2005 9:42:33 PM PST
by
Jack Deth
(Knight Errant and Disemboweler of the WFTD Thread)
To: AQGeiger
Don't know what to tell you that would be of help,but maybe you could put a screen over the fish bowl and gradually introduce your cat to the fish.
I know it sounds stupid ,but we did it with our cat when my daughter got a pet rat.Every day my daughter would take her rat out of the cage and would let the cat sniff it.
Both critters are fine.
Our cat never harmed our Beta either.He would drink the water out of the bowl and the Beta would swim right up to him.
He just knew he couldn't harm anything in the house I guess.
To: stylin19a
I just expectorated on my laptop.
(And no, that does *not* sound perverted!)
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posted on
03/15/2005 9:44:22 PM PST
by
Choose Ye This Day
(A world of creatures that worked like machines would hardly be worth creating. -- C.S. Lewis)
To: AQGeiger
Stop adding tartar sauce to the fish bowl, for starters.
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posted on
03/15/2005 9:46:03 PM PST
by
Choose Ye This Day
(A world of creatures that worked like machines would hardly be worth creating. -- C.S. Lewis)
To: quantim; Slings and Arrows; Glenn; republicangel; Bahbah; Beaker; BADROTOFINGER; etabeta; ...
Not good, as cats, and unlike dogs work in real-time and don't respond to discipline. But they always understand LOVE. I favor the Frank J. method myself, but its effectiveness is limited by the availability of a serviceable bog.
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To: Drango
I think I'm going to do that with my next fish. It was just a little strange, since she hadn't seemed to mind the fish before.
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posted on
03/15/2005 9:52:42 PM PST
by
AQGeiger
(Have you hugged your soldier today?)
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