Friday 17 April 2009

Cat training of the most basic sort

I don't understand what's so difficult for a cat about learning to pee in a box. A while ago we had Ooda the kitten in our bed, and woke up at 04:00 to find poo and pee on our duck down doona. Since then we have experimented with various arrangements for Ooda that did not involve him in our bedroom. At various times now, we have found places where he has urinated outside the confines of his litter box, including our single armchair and a bag of Debbie's Mary Kay makeup (worth ~$600).

One of Deb's theories is that he is doing this out of spite: he doesn't like being locked up, so he pees on things. The problem is that we can't unlock him or else he pees on us. I think he just hasn't learned where to pee yet, and I have never had to train a cat to pee in the right spot. Meg just went straight to her tray and never went anywhere else. I don't know what it was.

Mokalus of Borg

PS - It seems to be only upstairs now.
PPS - Perhaps we should put a second litter tray up there.

3 comments:

Beard said...

your supposed to chastise them and rub their noses in it. they eventually learn. :) you should look it up on google.

John said...

You know, I did look it up on Google, and one of the first results said that you should not rub their noses in it or spank them, because this just confuses cats. Google knows everything, but it also knows a lot of wrong stuff. How can you tell what's what?

Tim. said...

there should be a googe for google. hmm, maybe thats just dogs then. cause it totally worked on our dog hah. perhaps cats are more vengeful than dogs, rub their nose in it and they just pee more.