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Anonymous
GAHHHH. How the fuck do I deal with this little shit. He doesn't respond to anything. A classic example is that he likes to go behind my computer desk and play with the wires. I've got this little spray bottle with water in it that I spray him with when he doesn't but he just doesn't care. He runs away and then runs right back to playing with the cables.

It's not a lack of play because I play with him all the time. Also he bites and attack ALOT. I know i shouldn't, but I usually end up smacking the shit out him when he bites really hard. This little shit is about to be an outside cat.

Also this cage is the best money I ever spent. If I didn't have it I wouldn't sleep at night.
>> Anonymous
wat
>> Anonymous
This is why I am hesitant about taking a new cat. I've had lots of experience with dogs, and many of them can be little shits just like your cat. With dogs there are certain logical measures you can take to raise them into well behaving adults, BUT CATS BEHAVING BAD DRIVE ME FUCKING CRAZY, THEY JUST DON'T LEARN ANYTHING

FUCK

Sorry about that.
>> Anonymous
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I had a kitten just like that. He was a little shitfuck brat that we rescued from a dumpster. So here's how I dealt with him. (In b4 catfags crying.)

Basically we fucked his shit up and played with him heavily. We carried him around upside down, tossed him across the room (onto soft things of course), threw him over our shoulder and held him there, and when he did something REALLY bad, we grabbed him and pinned him down for about a half hour. He'd cry and try to scratch. He HATED timeout. If he pissed on things, scratched up things, chewed on things, he got timeout.

Now he's a kickass cat. He lets you do ANYTHING to him and loves it. He never bites or scratches, even if how you're handling him is questionable (which makes him an awesome cat to have around children). He loves car rides and sticking his head out windows and playing fetch with rubber bands. He's a good little fucker.

Pic related, it's aforementioned dumpster cat.
>> Anonymous
>>338075
Well, while you could argue about details, the basic idea behind your approach is valid. How do mother cats teach kittens? They smack them around the head when they do things they shouldn't, but at the same time lets them know they're still loved. Cats will understand this: do bad things -> bad shit happens, don't do bad things -> you get love and affection.
>> Anonymous
This is why it's a good idea to go to the shelter and adopt a calm, grateful adult cat.
>> Anonymous
>>338075
Don't worry I do the same kind of stuff to my cat. Tossing him and pinning him and all that. You're not hurting them so I don't see the problem. Pinning them in your lap or something is better than beating them.
>> Anonymous
>>338055
that's just what kittens do, deal with it

and if you're going to keep it in a cage you may as well take him back to the pound. you obviously can't handle your kitten
>> Crazy Cat Lady
>>338075
yep, pretty much how to train a cat. we use the hold them up so high that they almost touch the ceiling technique w/ our oldest, and the pin method w/ the dumb-ass young one. our middle one is fairly well behaved.

>>338055
OP, also try loud noises, some cats don't mind water so of course the squirt bottle isn't working. clap your hands, yell, just something loud and sudden, she'll learn soon enough. as for the biting, deal w/ it. kittens play rough, it's part of learning how to be a real cat, if u don't want her scratching you, get some toys on a stick like a pussy who can't handle a few pin-pricks
>> Anonymous
Don't spray water on the cat playing with electrical wires. You will kill both of you and ruin the computer.
>> Anonymous
a kitten is the equivalent of a little kid. If you can't take care of one and don't have the patience for it, bring him back in hopes he comes in the home of someone who does.
>> Anonymous
>>338090
>>338174


Seconding these. A kitten is a hyperactive little fiend with the sole aim of doing what it shouldn't. The aim here is to train it into acceptable behaviour as it grows older. Kittens are just like puppies and human children; they WILL do shit that you don't want. They WILL sink their insanely sharp little milk teeth into you. They WILL jump on you. They WILL beg for attention at the most inappropriate times i.e jumping on you while you are sleeping. It'll get better as it gets older and grows up, but in the meantime, you just have to be paitent and keep repeating yourself until the message sinks into its tiny little skull. If having a kitten that acts like a kitten is really so frustraiting I suggest that you do what someone else suggested and either take it to the pound and swap it for an older, calmer animal or else just take it there and not get a cat at all. The only thing that's going to work in this situation is persistance and perserverance and paitence.
>> Anonymous
>>338200
So basically
the way kittens are=spoiled, selfish, annoying?
I'd rather get a dog or another animal then.
>> Anonymous
>>338055
Caging it is just gonna make it even more wild when you finally let it out.
>>338075
>>338130
Are the ways to go with a belligerent kitten. Using a can full of pennies or a water bottle is a good way to discipline a kitten. Loud noise or spray=no and most kittens will learn that very quickly since they don't like loud noises. The spray bottle doesn't work on all, however.
>> Anonymous
>>338258
>> Anonymous
>>338258

Dude. So are dogs. I've had both pups and kittens and they're both annoying hyperactive scratching biting incontinet little shits. It's what you do with them that makes them into pets worth having. I personally love pups and kittens, think they're great fun, but they are exhausting to be around all the time and the training never really stops. "Don't crap there...don't crap there...don't crap there..." If nothing else, kittens don't excavate whopping great craters in the backyard so that's something.
>> Anonymous
>>338075

they say youre supposed to train your cat with rewards, not punishment... i dunno what to believe
>> Anonymous
the kitten sounds terrified of you. dont spray it....your scaring it even more and it probably thinks your the most evil thing on the planet for doing so. its sounds scared shitless about his new surroundings. just leave him...dont come to him...let him come to you. be patient with it...it doesn't know who you are, where it is, what on earth is going on...probably thinks your going to eat him when he least expects it.....and its not like you can explain to a animal that your not going to hurt it.
>> Anonymous
OP is a selfish prick, if its acting like that it needs another outlet for its energy, play with it more, get some more toys, do something.
>> Anonymous
>>338336
This. Keeping it in a cage at night is only going to fuel the bad behaviour. Caging works for dogs, not cats.
>> Anonymous
OP doesnt know much about cats. OP should read a "how to" book on taking care of cats and cat behavior.
>> Anonymous
Put pepper in his eyes.
>> Anonymous
You fucking retards are posting in a troll thread. Do you not go outside of /an/? How much more obvious can it be?
>> KZN
>>338387
Who's eyes, OP's?
>> Anonymous
*sigh, its a kitten, thats HOW THEY ACT. If u wanted an obedient animal, u should have bought an ADULT dog, not a cat.
>> Anonymous
>>338075
lol, this is what I did with my kitten. The first kitten I raised myself, too (owned a good many in my childhood, but never on my own). Honestly, he's the best cat EVER now. I've never had a cat so pliable- he doesn't scratch, bite, he runs up to me when I call him, lays on my lap, loves sleeping on pillows..... He's absolutely loving as hell. He never gets pissy. You could pick him up any way you wanted and he'd just chill through it all.
>> Anonymous
>>338335
you are dumb and missed the whole point of this thread.
>> Anonymous
>>338334
Asshole kittens don't respond to positive reinforcement. When you give an inch they run a mile. Fucking them up is really the only way to get them to cut it out.

But if you have a good quiet kitten, this method will probably do more bad than good.
>> Anonymous
This is the problem with cats.

Some are sweet as can be and do whatever they are told, most are feral little shits who would rather shit in your face than snuggle up against you.
>> Anonymous
My kitten is a little shit but I'd never hurt him. Sometimes he pisses me off so I use the waterbottle on him, he doesn't like that, but most of the time he's a little angel, like right now, he's sleeping on my chest and purring. My other adult cat was a little wild, but she didn't even get a spray bottle when she did something bad, I just yelled at her. She's a great cat and I didn't need to punish her when she was bad. Give me your kitten OP.
>> Anonymous
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all I do with my little one (He's got four legs, three feet, IT'S A BIRTH DEFECT MORALFAGS) is whenever he runs behind my computer i just snatch him by the scruff of his neck and lift him out of there and just hold him. He gets really wound up most of the time so I just find his toy, he has this long furry white thing with a bell on it that he likes to wrestle. However we gave him a stuffed duck that squeaks, and when he made it squeak it scared the shit out of him.

Pic related, it's the little bastard. His name is Clyde.
>> Anonymous
>>338918
More pics of three-footed cat!
>> Anonymous
>>338055

Beating the crap out of a cat when it's young is the only way to stop it turning into a nasty little douche when it grows up. Unfortunately, beating them around the head and body causes brain damage and broken bones. I found that flicking their ears was a highly effective substitute for serious bodily harm, albeit not quite as satisfying.

If they go into places you don't want them to be, then a single loud clap will scare the shit out of them, dissuading them from further exploration. None of you're repeated little opera claps either. One big bastard of a full power hand slap that makes your palms sting. It turns them into furry rockets.

One of my cats had a penchant for pouncing on my feet when I was asleep. Springing up like a jack-in-the-box screaming WHAT THE FUCK seemed to dissuade her from ever doing it again.

>>338918

PROTIP: Cat's feet are called paws.
>> Anonymous
>>338334

I bet whoever said that has nasty little hissing bastards.

I treated mine pretty mean when they were kittens and now they're perfect. Also lots of hugs, hugs the little squirmy bastards can't escape from.
>> Anonymous
I yell at my cats. They're really nice cats and they love me, but if they misbehave I just yell "HEY!" I can be pretty loud so it scares them. Sometimes they ignore me and I have to repeat myself, and in the worst case scenario I'll hit something in the room. It's really just about making a really loud scary noise. Sometimes, if yelling and making noise isn't convenient, I'll hiss and growl at them and that works too.
It works pretty well. On rare occasion I might gently hit them (trust me, it's not enough to actually cause pain in any way.) Only if I'm trying to keep them away from something. If I have to, I'd grab their leg and drag them if it's something REALLY bad.
It important because my cats like to fight each other. I've managed to break up all their fights and they get along better now.
Sure, some cats will just run away and come right back to defy you again, but if you know they're about to do something bad again, yell just BEFORE they're about to do it. If your cat even comes CLOSE to your wires, yell.
>> Anonymous
two words: disciplinary cuddling
>> cats Anonymous
I understand picking them up by their nape for a few seconds and giving a stern, but not too loud "NO" whilst staring them down in the face, will let them know you mean business. Im assuming this is a kitten, you don't want to do that to an adult cat as they are usually to heavy to be picked up by the nape. Ive never had to go this far because I go for a loud no first, if they keep at it then a loud no followed by smacking the ground around them, then the spray bottle. The spray bottle almost always works, you have a fearless little kitten on your hands.
>> Anonymous
>>338924
Yeah this is why a can full of pennies works. Loud as fuck. Scares the hell out of them.
>> anon
Try bitter spray from the pet store.
>> Anonymous
If spraying water doesn't work, spray an air freshener or perfume. They fucking HATE that smell. Especially if it's minty.
>> Anonymous
fuck mine is the same, but she's 11 months old now. stupid brat