Snickers is somewhat adventurous, and after a roll in a pile of ash, she headed straight to the bathtub for a drink... so now she's got a few near-solidy mats. Is there anything I can do?
I've heard olive oil works, but I don't have any atm... won't go to town till tomorrow (work).
How do I pesuade my wife that cats don't cause 'fecal contamination' all over the house? She seems to think they step in their poop, and that their litter always has tiny poop particles on it, so the cat's paws track poop germs everywhere.
Snickers will wait till I scoop out the box before...
Sheesh, folks. Not everyone sees animals as people.... because they aren't people. I've tested a shock collar on myself out of curiosity.. it doesn't hurt, and human skin is pretty delicate by comparison.
Different training tools aren't about ego, they're about different approaches. Any tool...
Makes sense abbout feeling safe. Snickers slept next to me for the first week or so, but now she sleeps in the living room but hops onto my bed toward the morning.
I couldn't get to town today, so I tok a bamboo rod i had, braided some strings together and, grabbed a little electrical tape, and voila! Instant 'fishing pole' toy. She hunted and fought with the string for about an hour. She's out cold right now, should sleep for hours, I hope. ;)
ROFL @ bully. Correction and bulying are two very different things. I know quite a few people who train presas using e-collars with great results. Any tool can be abused. Believing the tool is the problem is like believing guns cause crime or spoons make people fat..
Where do you get that 99% figure? Such hyperbole.
BTW Cats are not more intelligent than dogs. Studies have proven them to be otherwise.
Positive-only training doesn't work with every animal. A nice plushy pomeranian would be a great candidate for clicker training, while an extremely...
Oddly enough, cats do 'punish' each other and learn boundaries within a cat colony, or Cat Room 2 at a local shelter. Snickers was the alpha of that room and, from what I've been told was a bit of a bully there... so they do seem to understand dominance at the very least.
So far, Snickers seems...
Not so sure that 'shock collars should be banned.'
Any training tool can be abused. I've seen dogs with lacerations from an ordinary flat collar. Clicker trainers have been known to treat dogs into obesity. ;) I've zapped myself with a shock collar. It doesn't actually hurt. It is surprising...
So Snickers lies down 2 feet from me on my bed. I lay my hand down by my side. Snickers leans over and swats me, then does a slight lunge toward me, then again, as if she were making a threat.
I told her 'No,' and she seemed to settle down.
She seems to be working hard to become an outdoor cat.
Update:
I gave her some bone broth, which she really liked (no seasoning, just boiled turkey bones in a pot for about 9 hours), she's started to vocalize a little again, and she's eating more. Will still take her to the vet thursday though.