Don’t Punish Your Cat
This Christmas (2009) would you punish your cat for doing this? Please leave a comment - Photo by collinj If I saw a cat owner punishing their cat to try and stop the cat doing something that they...
View ArticlePUNISHING CATS IS WRONG
My blood runs cold to read of the ‘advice’ given by the people who think they know all about cats, to other people asking for suggestions on how to stop their cats ‘bad’ behaviour. Amongst the...
View ArticleBest selling author agrees with PoC on cat punishment
Temple Grandin, in association with Catherine Johnson, in their book “Animals Make Us Human” agrees with me and other PoC supporters and regulars (who are very important to this website in getting the...
View ArticleCat Keeps Vomiting On Two Year Old Child
This is a “cat problem” posted on the Reddit website seeking advice. It has received hundreds of comments in response, all of which are rubbish. Most are just jokes. The remainder recommend punishing...
View ArticleSpraying Water To Punish Cats is WRONG
This article was inspired by the ever constant debate as to whether spraying water at cats is cruel or not. Some people swear by it but I make no secret of the fact that yes I do think it is … please...
View ArticleFor Kids: About Cat Punishment
Most kids know about punishment. I do. I was punished when I was a kid. I was punished when I was naughty. I knew I had been naughty. I also knew that I was being punished because I had been … please...
View ArticleElectric Training Collars Can Cause Psychological Damage
Although this refers to dogs it is actually about punishment as a way of training animals including cats. Lots of people including cat behaviorists recommend punishment as a way of training a cat....
View ArticleCats on Kitchen Counters
Are you a person who doesn’t like to see your cat on kitchen counters? You always shoo her off? You might squirt water at her or shout at her. Discipline her. Punish her. You just hate to see it. Let’s...
View ArticleTraining Cats: Comparing Dog Training And Human Training
Punishing techniques on dogs has much the same effect as it has when physical punishment is applied to children, which is an increase in aggressive behaviour generally and specifically increased...
View ArticleWould You Like To Come Back As A Cat?
How often do we hear someone say: ‘If I have to be reborn on this earth I hope I come back as a cat’. Well, to me that’s the daftest wish of all to make, because cats are the most … please continue...
View ArticleIs Punishment Appropriate for Cats? What are Better Training Methods for...
When kitty is behaving ‘badly’, in order to quickly ‘correct’ this unacceptable conduct, far too often owners will resort to punishing their cat. One of the most popular methods used is the ‘tried and...
View ArticleCan cats really be helped in an unfriendly Internet? Always smile from the...
When frustrated cat owners want to know how to deal with their cat’s “bad behavior”, or try to learn more about their kitty’s health; to get their questions answered many people frequently turn to the...
View ArticleWife calls 911 for help as family cat attacks her husband
We can file this one in the “unusual category” although it has happened before on at least two occasions (a waste of police time) so it is not that unusual. A family cat holds a Greenfield couple...
View ArticleWhen Using a Water Pistol on Your Cat Is Not Punishing Your Cat
The title to this article sounds improbable but I’d like to explain what I mean. We should all know by now that punishing your cat as an act of training is very wrong. It does not work. I think that’s...
View ArticleHow to discipline a cat?
Disciplining your cat implies punishing your cat. We should never punish our cat. Therefore I prefer training. Training should mean positive reinforcement to encourage your cat to do the things that...
View ArticleThe difference between cat punishment and negative reinforcement
The difference between punishing a cat and negative reinforcement, both of which should be avoided, is that the former requires the cat to be able to measure his/her behaviour against norms as decided...
View ArticleWater squirted onto cat but he refuses to budge
This is silly. Cat ‘owners’ should never squirt water on their cat to make them move away from an area which the person considers out of bounds. As the video shows it does not always work but it may...
View ArticleJackson Galaxy on Feline Punishment
I have always been passionately against punishment as a means of training a cat. I thought I’d look up what Jackson Galaxy thinks about cat punishment. He discusses it in his book Total Cat Mojo....
View ArticleIf your cat’s behaviour is driving you nuts try timeout
This is a snippet of advice from Jackson Galaxy. I’ve never tried it because I’ve never had cause to but I am sympathetic towards people who may on occasions become frustrated with their cat’s...
View ArticleMan meows loudly at his sleeping cat to take revenge for being woken up
For me this is stupid, unhelpful and mindlessly commercial. It is actually cruel. It is actually bloody awful to look at to be perfectly honest. He is a mean looking man, isn’t he? He does not look...
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