PSA: Don’t spray your cats. It not only strains your relationship, it’s useless.
Honestly the best thing that has worked for my cat is stern words and a finger in his face. He makes a “how dare you” face but stops doing the thing.
I hiss at mine, works 90% of the time. He just wanders off doesn’t seem to upset him and gets the point across
Oh yeah that too. The issue is he thinks I’m mad at him every time a can of cola is opened lol
Ooh, yeah mine gets confused every time I’m dusting out my computer with compressed air lol
This is what I do too. I speak their language and they understand it perfectly.
That’s all lies. I’ve sprayed my cat like 5 times in his life, and lo and behold, he doesn’t do the dumbasses things that got him sprayed anymore.
I, too, like to ignore evidence in order to keep my preconceived bias.
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I remove the output from ChatGPT due to people not being happy with that.
I’ve spend some time reading all the results from Google on this topic and the overwhelming consensus is that it is not good to spray your cat with water.
This is true even if you use an unbiased search term.
For months after I first got my (rescue) cat, every time I took a shower, she would sit right next to the bathtub and cry the whole time. I always wondered if she thought I must have done something really bad.
My cat is 12 and still does this.
Comes in looks in the tub, starts yeolwing like I’m doing it wrong “you’re not supposed to be in the water, water bad!”
