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June 05, 2006
We have a problem.
When Clem was a kitten, he used to knock over the trash in the kitchen on an hourly basis. We locked the trash can in the bathroom at night to prevent it. We tried spraying him with a water bottle, but he'd just look at you as if to say, "Is that the best you can do?" and he'd keep digging through the trash, now slightly wet. We gave up on the water bottle after that and got a more serious trash can.
Not long ago, we reinstated water discipline, when Clem realized that the most effective way to drive us crazy was by going after paintings and lamps. Valuable! Dangerous! Perfect! At first, the water was a shock, and it totally worked. It still tends to make him stop what he's doing and run out of the room. But now we have a new problem:
He likes to drink the water out of the bottle. And, of course, we find that hilarious and always will sit there squirting water into his mouth and laughing at our weirdo cat. However, I'm afraid that now he's starting to misbehave just so he can get water... I think we need to get him one of those perpetual cat water fountain dishes... maybe that would help.
Posted by kelseyfrost at June 5, 2006 11:11 AM
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Nikita is a little devil as well and wasn't responding to the water squirting either. But I picked up some of that bitter spray you can get at the pet store and put some of it in with the water (it's pretty potent). It helped a little... :)
Posted by: Marissa at June 6, 2006 04:10 PM
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