Under what circumstances can you hit a cat (2)
7. Regarding whether a cat can understand “the owner doesn’t want me to do xxx”, I can say very clearly that at least with the intelligence of American Shorthair cats, they can fully understand basic commands such as “you are not allowed to enter x room”, “the owner doesn’t want me to get on this table”, and “you are not allowed to bite the owner”.
Think about it, cats also have their own territory or safe zone in the wild. Even if they are so miserable that they don’t have it, other animals have it, and they will avoid it. Cats in the wild must be able to understand things such as “you can’t enter this piece of grass” and “you can’t bite this animal casually”. Cats that can’t even understand these things have long been eliminated.
8. Since it is domestication, it must be accompanied by food. On the one hand, it should be a snack reward that you like to see. On the other hand, you should add food yourself instead of using an automatic feeder. Occasionally, you can be irregular, and wait until the pet actively comes to you to act coquettishly and rub against you before feeding it. Make sure it understands 100% who gives it food when it doesn’t need to hunt.
Although cats are stupid and have poor social skills, they are not so stupid that they cannot tell where food comes from. For example, my cat is completely different from me when it is hungry and has no cat food and rubs against me, and when it is full and basking in the sun, it doesn’t matter whether I am there or not.
9. But it should be noted that the domestication potential of animals will never reach the standard of social animals. Pet owners must find a balance based on the characteristics of their pets and their own tolerance limits. The upper limit of domestication of some species, personalities or survival experiences of animals is very low. If its upper limit of domestication is still lower than your tolerance limit, you have only three choices: give it to someone with a higher tolerance limit, adjust your own tolerance limit or euthanize it. Whoever throws it away is a sb, and people are not as good as dogs.
Once again, even pets with a high upper limit of domestication will not be satisfactory. For example, it is almost impossible to completely prevent cats from scratching sofas and dogs from biting furniture. This is their most basic biological instinct. You can only control the loss by guiding them as much as possible + buying them replacement items (dog chew sticks and cat scratching boards) + protecting valuable furniture (spraying bitter water, covering with transparent plastic film) and a certain amount of patience.
10. In addition to punishment, you can also hold your pet down from time to time when playing with it to renew its mental image of power comparison. However, this kind of suppression does not need to last too long, usually for a few seconds. You can release it during the window period between the first resistance of the pet and the second resistance. After releasing it, continue to play normally. You
can hug and rub the trained cat at will. There is no pressure to hug and rub its belly. You can also become the next Shiji Niangniang
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