How to Stop bad habits in cats （與貓的鬥智斗勇）

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To change a cat』s behaviour is very

difficult but not impossible, unlike dog』s cats won』t follow commands it』s hard

enough to get them to come to you even when your shouting their name.as a cat owns

the house and you are just allowed to live with it, as its slave, but fear not

we will help you gain control of your home again from the evil dictator that

has moved into your life. when training all animals, a reward system must be

used, so when you see a cat doing something you like, the cat must be rewarded

when showing good behaviour and never punish when doing something bad as punishing

has shown not to show results.

The three-step process

1. Stop the behaviour is progress

through distraction

2. Redirect the cat to an

alternate approved activity

3. Reward the good behaviour with

a treat or affection

These methods will reinforce behaviour that

you wish your cat to do, although the cat will not do this right away keeping

at it will eventually the cat will show the habits you desire.

Jumping

up on tables and counters

When you think of where a cat goes you

might not want the cat to walk where you eat. Best thing to place unattractive

material on the table top such as tin foil and double sided tape, this will

make the cat uncomfortable and will make the cat jump back down. If you see you

cat ready to jump onto a surface, simply pick up the cat and place it somewhere

high where you don』t mind the cat being or use a cat tower (since cats like to

be on a high place so they can look down on everyone). Once you have place the

cat onto the new stop give the cat a treat. When the cat has settled down in

the new location give the cat affection, the cat will see this new location as

someplace good to be since its gets treats and affection over and will want to

be in this place a lot more.

Lying

on fresh laundry

After finishing the cleaning your clothes

they will be nice smelling, very soft and very warm, which will be a cat』s

heaven only if your clothes smelled of smelled of fish, so how do you stop a

cat from going to cat heaven. One of the ways is to put clothes away as soon as

possible but that』s changing your own bad habitat rather than the cats. What

you will have to do is provide a distraction, place comfy stops in the room you

do clean your clothes and cover the clean clothes with aluminium foil or

cellophane, this will give the cat a horrible feeling when trying to lay on top

of the clean clothes. When you see the cat in the comfy stops you have provided

show the at affection and give treats so that it will like that place more.

Scratching

furniture

Nothing will make a cat happy then after a long

hard day of doing nothing more but to stretch out and put its claws into the

furniture that its slave owns. While stopping scratching is completely different

then a place it likes to sleep, its uses the same methods as the other bad

habits. Place sticky tape and aluminium on the parts of the furniture that is

been scratched, this will give the cat a horrible feeling when scratching and

place next to the normal scratching area place a scratching post it will likely

move to this post to scratch. After a while the cat will not bother will the

furniture and will move to the post whenever it needs to sharpen its claws to

stick into you.

Coprophagia:

eating faeces

One of the bad habits you might see a cat

doing is eating another cat or its own solid waste, the correct term for this

it』s called coprophagia. This isn』t very common in cats but it does happen some

of the reason it might happen is in new mothers, the new mothers will eat the

waste of the new born to keep the new born clean and to start a grooming

routine, the kittens will pick up this trait and make it part of their own

grooming routine. Adult cats will eat waste if their personal area becomes too

dirty.

But if you find you cat eating its own

waste and it』s not a new mother and you keep its personal area clean it could

be an underlined medical condition. Some of the medical conditions that cause

coprophagia are:

· Parasites

· Diabetes

· Inflammatory bowel disease

· Anemia

· Vitamin deficiency

· Malnutrition

· Thyroid Disease

· Neurological disease

To determine which of these is causes

coprophagia the vet will have to take a blood test and other medical test, they

will give you a treatment plan that will change the way you look after and what

food to feed the cat.

If you want to make sure it』s not a medical

problem there is things you can do to stop the cat from eating its own waste,

clean up waste as soon as possible, this will stop the cat from eating it and

will stop the habit. Playing with the cat this will lower stress and keep the

cat occupied with you.

Conclusion

When you want to train any animal from

doing a bad habit, using the 3 rules of training will always help but be aware

that some repetitive behaviour it could be a underlining cause of a medical

condition, so always make sure that it is a bad habit instead of a warning sign

that you pet is very unwell it may save its life.

中文翻譯：

想要改變吾皇的行為習慣是非常困難的，但也不是不可能完成的任務。吾皇不像狗狗們那樣樂於服從命令，即使你大聲吼叫它們的名字，也很難讓吾皇來到你身邊。如果你與吾皇同處一室，在它的眼中，也是它的奴隸。不過不用擔心，動物君將會幫助你從這個獨裁者手中搶回控制權。無論想要訓練何種動物，制定一套獎勵機制是必須的，所以一旦你留意到吾皇做出了讓你欣喜的舉動，吾皇必須得到獎勵；但是如果做了讓你不高興的舉動是不是要採取懲罰措施呢，答案是否定的，因為沒用嘛，所以記著，只有胡蘿蔔，沒有大棒。

具體可以分如下三步走：

1. 如果你想要阻止吾皇的的壞習慣，只能通過分散其注意力來達到目的；

2. 通過可替代方案來讓吾皇養成的好的行為模式從而塑造其行為習慣；

3. 一旦吾皇表現良好，毫不吝嗇的獎勵它，並表示愛慕之情。

以上三點可以不斷強化你心目中吾皇的的行為習慣，即使剛開始吾皇可能不上道，但是只要持續不斷採用這種方法，最終吾皇會轉變為你心目中的吾皇。

以下就通過具體舉例的方法來指導大家如何糾正吾皇日常的「所作所為」。

吾皇壞習慣之跳到桌子與柜子上

在你最不喜歡吾皇踏足領域中，相信你吃飯的地方可能可以排到TOP1。最好的做法就是在檯面上放置一些不那麼引人注意的材料，如保鮮紙，雙面膠，這些材料會讓吾皇不能自如地行走，從而迫使它跳下來。如果你注意到吾皇將要跳到某個物體表面上，你可以簡單得將它拎起放至別處高地例如「貓塔」（專門為貓咪登高設置的架子，因為吾皇喜歡站在高地，俯視群臣）。一旦你為吾皇搭建了一個全新的登高台後，其實就意味著給了吾皇一個鼓勵，告訴它，你可以在此處盡情顯示你的貓威。當吾皇開始習慣了新的落腳台後，你需要不斷給予吾皇你對它的愛慕與認可之情，這樣吾皇就會認為這個落腳點是一個很酷的地方，能夠滿足它們極大的虛榮心，當然也就更樂意呆在那裡啦。

吾皇壞習慣之躺在洗乾淨的衣服堆里

洗凈的衣物會散發出一種宜人的幽香，而且又軟又暖和，除非你的衣服聞起來有魚腥味，不然那裡就是吾皇的天堂。所以，該如何阻止吾皇邁進它的天堂呢？方法一最簡單有效的當然是迅速將衣物疊齊歸置好，這個法子也可以訓練身為主人的你養成及時歸整的好習慣。方法二就是轉移其注意力，在放衣物的房間里放置為吾皇提供舒適環境的落腳點，當然也建議在洗凈衣物上蓋些錫箔紙或玻璃紙，因為躺在這些紙上，會給吾皇帶來一次可怕的體驗。一旦吾皇躺在了你為它設置的小窩裡後，你必須給以物質獎勵加精神獎勵，不斷表現出對於吾皇的愛慕之情，只有這樣，吾皇才會認為這裡是一個不錯的落腳點。人生，處處是表演啊！！！

周日我們例舉了兩種關於吾皇的惡習，今天延續上次的話題，繼續幫助吾皇「改邪歸正」吧。

吾皇壞習慣之抓撓傢具

在家煩悶一天，無所事事後，沒有什麼可以與伸展身子，肆意抓撓傢具來宣誓主權讓吾皇覺得更過癮，更爽了。想要阻止吾皇這極具破壞性的舉動，絕不是把它安置在一個讓它滿意的睡覺場所就可以解決問題的。解決這個問題同樣可以用到文章一開始就提及的三步法：分散注意——為吾皇提供其他可替代方案——獎勵與愛慕。首先你可以將膠帶或錫箔紙貼在已受迫害的傢具表面，這樣會讓吾皇進行再破壞時感官變差；其次，在吾皇經常喜歡抓撓的附近擺放一處專供吾皇發揮其爪子的場所，意思就是告訴吾皇：Hey，要抓，到這裡來抓吧，感覺更好哦。沒過多久，吾皇就不會去騷擾傢具了，一旦要去磨爪子時，就會乖乖去你為它設置的區域了，這個過程中，當然免不了獎勵與愛慕啦。

吾皇壞習慣之吃大便

吾皇還有一項壞習慣你肯定不能忍，就是吃別的貓咪或自己的固體排泄物，在醫學上有個專門的術語來描述這一行為，被稱作「食糞癖」。這一舉動在貓群中不是很普遍，但是因為某些原因還是會時有發生，特別容易發生在新晉的母親身上，剛剛成為母親的吾皇會吃掉新生寶寶的糞便，以保持清潔，大家都知道吾皇喜愛乾淨啦，所以看到糞便就會不自主的開啟它的「打掃模式」，在這個過程中，小貓也很容易學習了這項壞習慣，當它們「長大成人」後，居住環境太臟時，也會不自主地舔食糞便。

但是如果你發現不是新晉母親的貓咪在舔食糞便且周遭環境都較為整潔時，發生這種情況就很有可能是因為如下原因引起的相關疾病：

· 寄生蟲

· 糖尿病

· 炎症性腸病

· 貧血

· 維生素缺乏

· 營養失調

· 甲狀腺疾病

· 神經病

為了確定到底是哪種疾病引起了食糞這種舉動，就需要獸醫進行診斷了，需要對吾皇進行包括血壓及其他相關測量。經過一些列診斷後，獸醫會給出一套治療方案來調整你對吾皇的不良照顧，包括該如何餵養吾皇。

如果你想要確認吾皇的食糞舉動與身體疾病無關的話，當你發現糞便後，只需迅速將排泄物清理乾淨，這樣就能阻止吾皇習慣性吃大便了。

多多與吾皇進行互動遊戲，能夠有效降低吾皇的壓力感，也能讓吾皇感覺你已被它征服。

小結

當你想要訓練任何動物時，使用如上三步法，總能給你帶來一些幫助。但是也得留心發現一些頑固的習慣性行為，很可能是吾皇的身體狀況出了問題。你需要經常留意吾皇身體發出的一些警告信號，說不定正是是得益於提早發現，還能挽救一條生命。

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