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Recently my cat starting breaking a lot of rules:
1. Tearing up my furniture, including my carpets, my bed, and my kitchen chairs.
2. Sitting directly on the couch, instead of his assigned red pillows. To keep him from clawing up my nice leather couches, he's under orders to sit on some comfy cushions that I bought him.
3. Jumping up on tables--especially my device charging area. Not only are cats not allowed on tables in my house, but this puts my phone and other devices at risk of falling prey to an careless tail swish.
4. Generally disrespecting the rules that he's obeyed for years.
5. Once or twice he even tapped his fangs into my hand. Gently, and not even close to enough power to break the skin, but enough to let me know that he was breaking the rules. He's been carefully trained since kittenhood to be very gentle with human skin.
He does not appear to be sick; if anything, he's healthy as ever, and his coat has a wonderful sheen. He's eating as he always does, and using the litter box properly.
There have been a few changes recently:
1. 1/1/2014: I moved into a new apartment. As expected, he misbehaved for a couple of weeks after that, but I thought that he was over it.
2. Last week, I moved some furniture around, including his "scratching log," which he loves. It was previously in my living room, and has been relocated to the office.
3. I have been busier than usual during the week; because of a change at work, I can't work from home as much, and so I'm often am not home for about 15hrs/day. He's been alone a little more than usual lot. I have been playing with him for 15 minutes per day.
Consequences are the usual; same as they've been since he was a kitten:
1. Gentle scolding.
2. Scolding with scruff
3. 15 minute time-out in the bathroom.
4. 1 hour time-out in the bathroom.
5. Putting him outside
On that note, since we moved--he DOES NOT want to go outside anymore, but he _needs_ to go outside to burn off some energy. If I start heading towards the door while carrying him, he starts to struggle. If I put him down, he does a U-turn and hides under the bed; if I do physically put him out, he just hides under a tree and meows.
He generally seems very restless... I can't put my finger on it.
*sigh* sorry to hit you with a wall of text.... any ideas?
Thanks,
TangoKing
1. Tearing up my furniture, including my carpets, my bed, and my kitchen chairs.
2. Sitting directly on the couch, instead of his assigned red pillows. To keep him from clawing up my nice leather couches, he's under orders to sit on some comfy cushions that I bought him.
3. Jumping up on tables--especially my device charging area. Not only are cats not allowed on tables in my house, but this puts my phone and other devices at risk of falling prey to an careless tail swish.
4. Generally disrespecting the rules that he's obeyed for years.
5. Once or twice he even tapped his fangs into my hand. Gently, and not even close to enough power to break the skin, but enough to let me know that he was breaking the rules. He's been carefully trained since kittenhood to be very gentle with human skin.
He does not appear to be sick; if anything, he's healthy as ever, and his coat has a wonderful sheen. He's eating as he always does, and using the litter box properly.
There have been a few changes recently:
1. 1/1/2014: I moved into a new apartment. As expected, he misbehaved for a couple of weeks after that, but I thought that he was over it.
2. Last week, I moved some furniture around, including his "scratching log," which he loves. It was previously in my living room, and has been relocated to the office.
3. I have been busier than usual during the week; because of a change at work, I can't work from home as much, and so I'm often am not home for about 15hrs/day. He's been alone a little more than usual lot. I have been playing with him for 15 minutes per day.
Consequences are the usual; same as they've been since he was a kitten:
1. Gentle scolding.
2. Scolding with scruff
3. 15 minute time-out in the bathroom.
4. 1 hour time-out in the bathroom.
5. Putting him outside
On that note, since we moved--he DOES NOT want to go outside anymore, but he _needs_ to go outside to burn off some energy. If I start heading towards the door while carrying him, he starts to struggle. If I put him down, he does a U-turn and hides under the bed; if I do physically put him out, he just hides under a tree and meows.
He generally seems very restless... I can't put my finger on it.
*sigh* sorry to hit you with a wall of text.... any ideas?
Thanks,
TangoKing
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