Daxie

I got a new kitty and she's a fucking terror!

I come home from work, 2:30 in the am mind you, to find that the little winch got ahold of a roll of TP, tore the hell out of it and has lttle peices of TP all over the fucking place.

Then I walk into the bathroom to find the bitch dumped over a new fucking bag of litter... so now I have litter all over the floor, plus will have to go out and buy some more so I can change her little shit box.

As if that wasn't enough, I kick off my shoes, go out to the kitchen to grab a pop and step into a puddle of water. WTF???? The damn bitch knocked over the water bowl!

Needless to say I'm going to be doing alot of cleanning in the morning.

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>Hagar: "Before we go into battle today let me remind you what we're fighting for! We're fighting for justice! We're fighting for equality! What could be more important than that?"

>>Eddie: "How about a steady paycheck, health insurance and a good retirement plan?"

Deslok

Heh... I saw the headline and I was going to tell you that you needed to get more use out of it, but then I saw that you were talking about a cat. So my advice to you is to love your pussy, stroke it, play with it, and just give it time. Eventually it will stop rampaging and will pee in the proper place.

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Daxie

Well, today she wants to act sweet and innocent... makes me wonder what she's gotten into that I haven't discovered yet.

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>Hagar: "Before we go into battle today let me remind you what we're fighting for! We're fighting for justice! We're fighting for equality! What could be more important than that?"

>>Eddie: "How about a steady paycheck, health insurance and a good retirement plan?"

Deslok

I can relate to your problem Daxie, I have two dogs and one of them was a stray that I found when she was a puppy. When I found her, she was dirty, covered with ticks and she had a very strong survival instinct. However, she would have probably died that winter if I hadn't taken her in. I took her home, cleaned her up and fed her until she gained weight. She has never been completely trainable. She will still pee in the house, even if she has been out to the park. She will still break into the kitchen and scrounge for food, even after she's been fed. When she lived in a house with my mom, she scratched a hole in a wooden door with her nails to gain access to the kitchen there. This dog is very strong willed, and although she knows when she's doing something that is wrong, she'll do it anyway and then give me that cute "I'm guilty" face which only pisses me off more and I banish her to the back of the apartment & she knows that I don't want to see her until it's time for dinner or walking. By contrast, my other dog is so good, I could leave a platter with a bacon cheeseburger on a low table near him, and then leave the room and he won't touch it because when he was a pup I had the opportunity to teach him that my food is not to be touched. I was able to connect with him in a way that I never could with the stray that I took in. I love the stray one as much as the good one, but the stray one keeps things in my home in a constant state of disrepair.

The bottom line is, you have to be patient with animals, and since you have an opportunity to teach your kitty while it's young, it should stop doing these things, but it will take consistency. If the animal is confused as to what is acceptable, it's going to do some things for the rest of it's life. You may have to figure out ways of cat-proofing certain areas of your home in order to keep some kind of order around the place.

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Stag

You know, when I first saw this thread, I thought it would be addressing that funky smell around this place

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Daxie

Well Des.... I've had cats all my life and I can honestly say that this one is more of a handful than any other cat I've raised. I just keep thinking that she'll calm down when she gets older, but with the way she acts sometimes, I wonder.

She's so hardheaded too. She does something bad, I yell at her "NO!", she stops to look at me then turns around and does the bad thing again. I even flick her on the nose (as I've done with all my cats) while I say "no" in order to teach her that "no" means pain (kind of like giving a kid a spanking). In the past with other cats, I've only had to do the nose flick for a week or so before they finally connected it to "no". From then on, when I holer "no" they stop what they're doing and not do it again. This one though... she thinks the nose flick is a game, so I've tried clapping my hands, stompping my feet, banging my hand on the table, any kind of noise that would scare her while I say "no" but she still doesn't seem to get the message.

I guess the only thing I can hope for now is that she'll calm down in a few months when she's a little older *sigh*

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>Hagar: "Before we go into battle today let me remind you what we're fighting for! We're fighting for justice! We're fighting for equality! What could be more important than that?"

>>Eddie: "How about a steady paycheck, health insurance and a good retirement plan?"

Cymro

Perhaps you could punish her by locking her in one of those animal carriers for 1/2 or something, my cats HATE riding in those due to the lack of freedom (and probably cause they associate it with getting a thermometer up their ass).

One of my cats was adopted in the regular fasion, and he is acctually the worst behaved, I mean, he never shit's in the house, but he is the worst for trying to get at people's food, trying to use a 3 grand sofa for a scratching post, and sneaking upstairs to sleep on a bed. My other two cats are strays, one of them adopted from a cat rescue center type of thing, where he'd been taken care of for a few weeks already, he's basically perfect, gentle, friendly, never shits in the house, and never goes where he's not supposed to, and the other one who we found in our garden shed infested with worms and starving is probably the most friendly, but acts a lot like the first one I mentioned, only less maliciously, and more because he doesn't know better, he also craps in the house fairly often, basically, he's a dumbass. :!

So what I'm saying is, some cat's are just phsyco, and you can't do anything about it.

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"But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those friendly, intelligent, wonderful people...will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty klingon."

Bean

Get'em fixed and declawed. Calms em right down. Unless it's a male in which case it only calms them down moderatley.

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Stag

I hate cats

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Cymro

All mine are male and neutered, but not declawed, cause only one of them uses his claws for evil, and he rarely does.

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"Let me tell you something about humans, nephew: They're a wonderful, friendly people - as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working.

"But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those friendly, intelligent, wonderful people...will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty klingon."