Joans wrote:
Too late, he also likes to climb up onto my shoulder leaving me with a few holes on my upper body as well.
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Heh my uncles cat did that. Right up until he was about three months old and kept climbing my legs at the dinner table and trying to pull off the table cloth. I scruffed him. He never did it again.
Instead me miaowed until you picked him up which was do-able. He grew to be a very large cat in the end (pedigree five point) so my uncle has taken my advice and been training him. He's now a very clever boy
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If you do want to train him then all you need is a water spray bottle. Completely harmless of course but a fantastic way of stopping him from developing bad habits. Cats are incredibly intelligent and have a very good memory.
The only thing I have been unable to stop my cats from doing with the water sprayer is marking. They rub their mouths along the edges of things to leave a scent. This wasn't a problem until Dolly (my white Bengal) god fed up of re-marking all the time and started chewing up the edges of the coffee table. I think I am going to have to resort to big guns (pepper on the corners of the table).
Also, if your cat begins to claw things you don't want destroyed use the zest of a lemon or orange. It's a very very strong smell even to us and will put them off very quickly. I can't even begin to imagine how nose stingingly eye watering it must be for a cat, their senses are so much better than ours