If training your cat to sit, stay and heel is your goal, perhaps you should get a dog. If training your cat to adroitly perch himself over your toilet to do his business is your goal, perhaps this article is not for you either. This article is for all of us who would be happy to train a cat to just use the litter box instead of our comforter,cheap timberland boots, closet or shoes. This is for owners who would be happy training their cat to use a scratching post instead of the stereo speakers.

A cat cannot be trained to do something contrary to its nature, so cat training has the sole purpose of controlling a cat's behavior. Cats learn by experience, attempting to repeat positive experiences and to avoid repeating negative experiences. They continue to claw furniture because they enjoy doing it and want to repeat their previous scratching experiences. However, they do not enjoy the shock of sticking their noses into a candle flame, so they will not repeat that action.

Cat training can be tricky since the use of reprimands will always backfire. On the one hand if you catch the cat misbehaving,Timberland 14 Inch, it will simply associate you with the crime and act in that way when you are not present. On the other hand, punishing the cat later will not associate the crime to the reprimand. Often times any attention given to the cat will be incentive enough for the cat to continue, even if it is negative attention.

Many cat owners take the wrong approach to kitten training: They'll show the cat evidence of their misbehavior, such as a wet carpet spot or shredded curtains, and discipline the cat at that time. But kitten training can be fairly easy and straightforward. Simply show your kitten to their litter box, and they'll use it. If you just show the kitten where their scratching post is,Timberland Roll Top, they'll start scratching away.

A common mistake cat owners make when house training a cat is to grab the cat, show it the mess it made, then drag the cat to the litter box and force him to dig. Instead of learning that the litter box is the place to go, and the owner is a trusted friend, the cat learns that being grabbed is bad, and that the litter box is to be feared.

The most certain way to solve your cat's behavioral problems such as excessive scratching, not using the litter box,Timberland 6 Inch, or destructive scratching is by first getting rid of physical causes. Then use these resources to gradually train your cat to avoid such behavior.