The Hot Pepper

You have to win for a week. You have terrorize the cat. Not hurt the cat, but you have to make it uneasy and assert yourself. First, spray bottle with water. Don't stop chasing it around squirting it until it makes that sound like a human baby, the guttural one. Don't let yourself get mad, just steady on the mission. You can scruff it and put it in the sink and spray it w/ the sprayer a little bit - you'll get scratched. The most important decision is you deciding that you are goi...

...ng to win. It's what's best for the cat, so he remains with a home, and ultimately alive. Don't get mad ... definitely don't hurt the kitteh ... but don't let it go, because it'll just keep worsening and become terminal if you let it continue.

From my experience, that ^ advice is a good way to get a cat to fear you and be anxious. Anxious cats pee all over the place. Get good at booby trapping your place. I have a smart cat, too. She used to open cupboards and chew up her food bag until I started placing Dixie cups with an ounce or so of water balanced on top of the door. The trick is to make the cat fear doing bad things, not you.

I put foil on the soil of all my OWs to keep them out. Peppermint oil works wonders as a deterrent, too. Cats are smart. If you try to terrorize them with sprayings they will just start doing bad things when you're not around. And they will hide when they see you.

Play that really loud every time he F's up.

Also, cats have super short attention spans. A quick spray with a spray bottle is OK when a cat is doing something bad. But if you continue spraying it to prove a point, the cat has already forgotten what it was doing before the spray and will just associate the spraying with you being mean and trying to hurt it.

Oh and hiss at him he knows that means ANGRY

He has never been outside and has no clue what a dog even is.


Will getting him clipped help any with his spazz ness?

Hissing works great, too. It's easier to do when a spray bottle is out of reach and speaking their language really gets their attention.

By "clipped" do you mean neutered? If so, yeah. That will calm him down a bunch. If he's still young, keep in mind he'll mellow with age.

I thought that HM01's kind of advice would have been exhausted, and I agree that female's will spite piss - but you said He. My aunt has tried the all-verbal approach w/ her dog, and it's hilariously #fail, and totally uncomfortable to watch. That dog needs a pack-leader, not a crazy armchair shrink. That dog lays at my feet when we're there, the most calmly it ever is, and I never spanked it or even raised my voice. It was desperate to have a pack leader that my simply not pe...

...tting him was all he needed.Change it up, anyways.

+1 inside cat=neutered. And if he still acts up tell him you're gonna take him in and have the rest chopped off. See how he likes them apples.

What if I just chase him around the house with sissors? LOL


Yea I'll get him de-balled.