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  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyztocats@lemmy.worldFrequently
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    7 days ago

    Well, yes.

    The air doesn’t actually harm the cat, and if one realizes that or doesn’t care, the effect stops.

    The point is to set up something that punishes the cat without your involvement. Another example is the way I set a metal measuring cup atop the toilet paper roll, for it to fall down whenever my cat went to rip it up. It only worked because the sound of metal hitting the tile floor scared the shit out of my boy. It took about a week for him to stop touching the tp, after thay he’s never heard the sound again.

    If you have a fearless beast, then this stuff isn’t gonna work. But if you DO notice something that your cat avoids or doesn’t like, find a way to use it (without harming your cat, ofc).


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    That depends on how you trained them.

    If you stopped them from jumping up on the coubter, the cat will just wait for you to not be around.

    What I did was set a motion activated can of pressurized air up on the counter. Now the cat get’s “punished” for going up there whether I’m there or not.

    A couple weeks of this was enough to not have him jump up there for years. In fact he seems to avoid ALL kitchen counters, because he doesn’t jump onto them when visiting relatives or friends, either.

    He still climbs all over everything else, just not kitchen counters.















  • and if I got into this situation two-times in a row what’s guaranteeing that it won’t happen again

    Absolutely nothing.

    The way I like to put it, is that most people are nice, but there are assholes everywhere.

    It’s not that everyone is a douche, just that there is nowhere you can go, where there won’t already be some, or where they won’t suddenly show up later.

    As such, it’s good to try and learn to deal with them, avoid them, or outlast them.

    At my last job, my two first bosses were great, then the third was a nightmare. But he got fired two years in and then the fourth was good again. That job lasted me seven years. 5 out of 7 is not bad.

    Overlay that with all your colleagues, and yeah, you’re almost bound to have at least some of them be bad… It’s a numbers game. If most of your colleagues are reasonable, then you’re probably in one of the better places to be.