The Best Way To Discipline A Cat

My wife and I have owned 10 cats over the past twenty five years and we have never swatted them or raised a hand to them for discipline. Want to know our secrete? Here is what we do to train our young cats to stay off the counters and table. We have a cheap $2 squirt gun loaded with water in every room. When we see one of our cats doing something wrong we zap them with the water pistols. This method has worked for us for over twenty years. It only takes a few shots and even the most stubborn cat will learn your rules of the house. This has got to be one of the most humane ways to discipline cats that I know of. Water is safe for indoor use and will not stain anything and I must admit I do kind of enjoy shooting at live pray. Which brings me to the warning I must give you about this method of disciplining your cats. One day last wwek a gentlemen came by my office selling squirt guns. Not just any squirt guns mind you, he laid before me a super soaker 5000. My head immediately filled with visions of tagging my misbehaving cats from across the room. I was sold. That night after dinner I was casually lounging in my chair trying to not tip off the cats that I had a new secrete weapon in our war over who gets to set on the table. Just minutes before I filled my new toy with an amazing two gallons of water. Now you might say that’s a lot of water but my thinking was the more water the gun holds the less times I have to get up to fill it. Evidently the dudes at the toy company were serious when they named this gun the super soaker because, latter that night I took aim at one of our cats who jumped on the table, and pulled the trigger. In less then the time I could say oh s**t two gallons of water went whizzing toward my cat. All of my wives work papers lying on the table were under about two inches of water and the cat didn't have a drop on her. . . So much for shock and awe. My wife was in shock and I think the cat was in awe over my stupidity. The lesson to be learned here is when using this method of disciplining your cats remember there is such a thing as to much fire power. About the Author: Hey! Want to become a cat expert? Visit my website www.CatNews.org Become a cat expert - visit http://catnews.org Author: Russell Clark Editor - http://www.CatNews.org Read more articles by: Russell Clark Article Source: www.iSnare.com Share: Del.icio.us Google Y! MyWeb Digg