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How do I keep cat from cheweing headphones and attaching my dad's feet

[philstar22]

My cat loves wires. We've tried everything we know to get her to stop. But every time she sees them, she still goes for them, even when there is another toy right there.

Also, she loves to attack my dad's feet. Just his. Well, mine in the morning. But his all day, every day, every time she sees him.

Re: How do I keep cat from cheweing headphones and attaching my dad's feet

[(Anonymous)]

Spray bottle?

Re: How do I keep cat from cheweing headphones and attaching my dad's feet

[philstar22]

That seems abusive to me (and, I admit, I watch a lot of Jackson Galaxy, and he says it is abusive).

Re: How do I keep cat from cheweing headphones and attaching my dad's feet

[(Anonymous)]

It is basic training. Like, literally the basis of all training. But, if not you just need to learn to live with chewed up wires. Of course, a bit of water is safer than chewing on wires.

Re: How do I keep cat from cheweing headphones and attaching my dad's feet

[(Anonymous)]

That seems like a stretch. It doesn't hurt them at all, it just surprises them. That being said, I'm not sure how effective it actually is or if it has long-term benefits.

I don't know if it works for cats, but you might try Bitter Apple spray on the headphones, because it could be really dangerous if kitty gets in the habit of chewing wires. Otherwise, redirect. Don't let kitty attack dad's feet, redirect with a toy. Don't let him even start playing before Dad walks away or shoos him off. He shouldn't associate feet with being a toy. Redirect with an appropriate toy.

Re: How do I keep cat from cheweing headphones and attaching my dad's feet

[(Anonymous)]

It's not abusive at all. Like the above anon said, it doesn't hurt them, it just startles them and they don't like it. Once they get squirted a bunch of times (how many times will honestly depend on the cat, some are stubborn and will keep on trying to do it anyway and others dislike it so much they'll stop pretty much right away), they'll learn to associate being squirted with that thing you don't want them to do and will stop doing it.

It took my cat a little under a week to learn that she's not allowed on the kitchen counters that way. I would just give her a light spritz with a mini plant mister whenever I caught her up there. It didn't hurt her, it just made her not want to be up there, which was the goal.

Re: How do I keep cat from cheweing headphones and attaching my dad's feet

[(Anonymous)]

Well. You're trying to discourage negative and potentially dangerous behavior in your cat. In order to achieve that, I'm pretty sure you're going to have to do SOMETHING it won't like or find pleasant. If you're not willing to do that, then you're going to have to try harder to keep wires out of your cat's reach and maybe your dad can wear boots all the time, idk.

Re: How do I keep cat from cheweing headphones and attaching my dad's feet

[(Anonymous)]

Put something the cat won't want in its mouth on the outside of the cords. Stop the cat and either redirect attention or remove it to another location if it goes for the feet.

If the cat can't be in the shared space without destroying things and attacking people, it doesn't belong in the shared space. Either it will learn and adjust the behaviour accordingly or it won't and you're the new warden of cat prison, and you job is to keep it and everyone else safe until it dies.

That's the part of cat ownership people like to gloss over. Sometimes you just end up with one that wants to watch the world burn and there's no reasoning with cats. I've had one nice cat who would definitely die in the wild - no hunting instincts, a bit dim. I've had one seemingly nice cat who was basically a tiny serial killer with a great poker face, very manipulative. The other two were directly spawned by Satan himself though. Just no remorse or off switch. 100% murder machines 24/7.

Good luck.

Re: How do I keep cat from cheweing headphones and attaching my dad's feet

[(Anonymous)]

I don't agree with the spray bottle just because I have never seen it actually work. Some cats may be able to be convinced through that method but every cat I've owned and a good many I've seen just blink it off and keep doing the thing. Never mind that you have to actually catch them at the behavior, and how many of us have only found a chewed cord the morning after? They won't correlate the bottle to that thing they did hours ago.

With the feet, is your dad reacting in such a way that the cat finds prey behavior? Shrinking, fleeing, pulling away, etc. Or lashing out against the attack with more violence? The redirect method works best with this, make sure it's with a toy that they find better prey than the feet, but at the same time, dad needs to stop making himself a target. You can't know why kitty has decided his feet are prey and no one else's, but when you make them uninteresting - they don't move, they don't jump, they don't go hide - and replace it with a toy, that should help.

Re: How do I keep cat from cheweing headphones and attaching my dad's feet

[(Anonymous)]

About your first point, I agree. I think the problem is, cats figure out it is YOU spraying them with the bottle, and might run away when they see you coming at them with the bottle, but when you're not there, may just keep doing the bad behavior. I don't think spray bottles are abusive or anything, I'm just not sure they are that effective. Maybe depends on the cat though, and how consistent the owner is.

Re: How do I keep cat from cheweing headphones and attaching my dad's feet

[(Anonymous)]

For stationary wires, try using bitter apple spray on them, and if that doesn't work, tuck them into a bit of plastic piping so they're 1) protected and 2) don't move and look like something that might be prey. For headphone wires specifically, put them away when not in use, and redirect the cat if she attacks the ones you're wearing.

With your dad's feet, he needs to tell her sharply "No", remove her, and ignore her until she settles. And - and this is usually the hard part - he needs to do it every time, and not encourage the behavior if he has shoes/thick socks/a blanket. She won't understand context, so she's not going to grasp the difference between when the human has shoes on and won't be hurt by her playing, and when the human has no shoes on and might bleed.