Love your Pets – Considering Training your Cats

When we speak of training we do not refer to making them do our every command such as sit, heel and stay. They are actually more applicable for the canine family. The training that is being referred to here is teaching our pet cats to use the litter box instead of our expensive shoes and blankets, making them reach for a scratching post instead of our furniture and appliances. If you truly love your cat these basics should come as a great deal for you in turning them into the same old cat you love only well-behaved.

If you would look closely, cats actually learn from experience too. If they felt that a particular experience is good then they would just adhere to it and form as a habit for them. On the other hand, if the experience is unpleasant then you can be sure that there would be no more next time. Some cats find it enjoyable to tear out pillows with their claws and we find ourselves buying a new one every time. But when some situations such as burning their nose in a candle flam happens to them they would surely remember to refrain from coming back for more.

If you want your cat to behave in some ways make sure that they would be well rewarded and for things that they may have done that come as unpleasant for you should of course not be rewarded at all.

We find some obnoxious cat behavior to be funny hence we reward them with something, maybe a pat or a delicious treat. In example, if your pet has been making a lot of noise at the early break of dawn and continuously try to be a nuisance it is very likely that you would be giving them food or maybe even pet them. This will teach your cat that such behavior would be rewarded with the same pleasures every time that they would do it.

There would come a time that owners will feel frustrated with all the cleaning up after their cats.

If your cat has left a wet spot again on the kitchen floor or somewhere around the house owners would then think that reprimanding the cat would mean holding them up through the back of their head and pointing towards the direction of the litter box. Actually, this would only teach them that being held at the back of their head is the bad experience and they would have to be put in a torture chamber that is the litter box. 

If you have understood that reprimanding is not the answer you may well turn to these following pointers:

Do not reprimand your cat or give them any forms of punishments even though how much they have done wrong.

Help your cats succeed in doing things that would add up to good behaviors and then provide them with rewards.

You may also set up your cat’s environment in a such a way that when they perform those behaviors that may come as nuisance for you would turn out as an unrewarding experience for them.