Humane Cat Declaw

Gyro Gearloose,

Doesn't the valerian stink of old dirty socks?

 

happilyinlove, how do I put those on my GF (next time I get a GF)?

 

Merely 'old' is putting it mildly!

As to squirt therapy, I have three cats trained to 'stay' on command and if they rebel the sight of me reaching for the bottle works wonders.

 

Try saying firmly 'Sit, Stay!' and showing her the spray bottle.....LOL

 

yeah my cat is too crazy to even let us trim his nails, so i doubt we'd have much luck putting those on him.

spray bottle works pretty well, but we can't ALWAYS be around to spray him. he has done a number on the side of our couch.

i'll remember not to chase him with the spray bottle (guilty of that sometimes), and to use a stern warning voice.

 

Ranger,

I didn't want to say that valerian stinks of old socks off a long-dead corpse, or old socks off a dead guy made entirely of cheese, but ain't that the truth? If you have any relatives you don't like that you have to visit this Christmas, take some valerian with you and sprinkle a generous amount down into the heat-registers in as many rooms as you can gain access to. Just a helpful hint.

Hell, put some in their coat pockets, too. And woe unto those who leave their car doors unlocked. Remember, Christmas only comes once a year. Make the most of it!

But yeah, after a couple of showdowns with my cat, I didn't even have to have the squirt gun in my hand. Just like humans, it's not long before cats come to respect even just the shadow of the whip.

 

A friend of ours has a bunch of cats and they use those little aresol cans. They have motion sensor and when the cats go too close it shoots air at them and makes a noise. Those work great because water doesn't get everywhere and they work unattended.
This isn't the exact brand they use, but the same thing essentially.
Only drawback is they are kinda expensive.
http://www.toysrus.com/product/inde...e=pla&camp=PLAPPC-_-PID15624050&KPID=15624050


p.s. I love the look on the cats face in the linked ad.

 

I reckon you could call those 'Kitten Mittens' and sell them for a fortune.

 

Looooolll the cats face in the ad! Ya these soft-paws are $40 per package. I will probably get 2-3 months use out of them. So relatively costly at the end of the year.

 

Wish I could, these were actually developed and patented by a vet.

www.softpaws.com

 

Thanks for the suggestions. I'd rather not spray smelly herbs around the house. I'm not looking for an alternative anymore, softpaws is my solution. I'm very pleased with the result

 

Declawing cats isn't something that's done over here in the UK. At least not in the routine way it seems to go on in the US.

I'd think myself that any other solution must be preferable. Or just accept that cats are cats and if you have one, you have to put up with a bit of scratching.

 

For those concerned about getting water everywhere when using the water solution, that doesn't happen with a squirt gun which shoots a narrow stream. And if it does, then perhaps you need to brush up on your marksmanship. And water doesn't smell.

 

When I had a cat years ago he loved to scratch at one arm of my sofa. The vet recommended tin foil. I placed it on the arm of the sofa and the cat never did it again. They hate the feel of it.

She had also said it can be used to train them not to go places, like on the stair so that they do not go upstairs.

I never cared where the cat went but I did rather like my couch. We compromised. He went all over and I had a couch.

 

i am gonna try that tinfoil idea. it's a little late for the one arm though.

 

One of my exes used to do that. She would clip the claws with fingernail clippers then put those on. I can't stand cats but that made it a little more bearable.

 

A lot of people don't like cats. I surmise that the reason for that is because they remind us too much of ourselves. I remember being at the mall and thinking to myself: Man, I'll bet Rip (named after what he liked to do to funiture upholstery before the squirt gun) would love this. It was a pillow tailor-made for a cat--the deluxe model! For some reason, he still preferred the old rocking chair in the corner. I thought, fine, I'll just put this fine, deluxe cat pillow on the old rocking chair. He then decides he hates the new pillow enough to change chairs immediately and forever. Even after removing the pillow, he won't return to his favorite rocker; apparently it's now been corrupted in a way that only cats can tell. And if you pick him up and put him on the new pillow, he jumps off faster than you can say "pointless purchase."

And he doesn't like any play-toys, either. Whoever comes up with the ideas for these new cat-toys must have never had a cat. Fuckers! Turns out that a simple piece of string is exactly what a cat has always wanted. Christmas for our cat is easy now.

 

The plastic ring off the milk jug!

 

OMG! The plastic ring off a milk jug . . . tied to a piece of string!! By joe, I think this is one of those "you got peanut butter in my chocolate" moments.

Now it's a race to see who gets to the patent office first.

 

I'm betting on the cat!