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few seconds on medium usually works
unless they do something really bad, then its a few seconds on Hi Power

after a few times of that, my cat never gets in trouble. He usualy just sits in one place and kind of twitches

My cat just doesn't like having his feelings hurt, much more than any other punishment I could give him.

And being his owner, the worst thing for him is to know that I'm upset with him. If I get upset at him, he knows it... and he'll give it a few minutes and come over and nuzzle up to me to apologize.

Cats are very smart. Mine can walk right by a roll of toilet paper now without touching it.... believe me, that one took a long time... but he learned. It upsets me, so he leaves it alone.

Did nobody notice that this thread is from 2003? :)

I dont abuse my animals, there fucking animals, they do stupid shit, thats why their called animals, if you cant deal with it, dont have any. Verbal scolding and a smack on his rear is all my dog needs to straighten his ass out, much more would be taking it too far.

Yup, but DJ started it and he bumped it... so I figured I'd answer his question just the same.

I don't believe in second chances for pets. They fuck up once and I have them put to sleep. We are on dog #43 this year.

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But seriously... you cant punish a pet..

However, you can train it so it wont fuckup.. and you train your pet with food.

If it ever makes a serious mistake that requires punsihment (like shitting on the carpet) electrocute or shoot it.

today I ran after the cat and he hid under the damn bed, took me like 10 mins to get him, I carried him down the stairs, wanting to break all his bones by this time, I put a close pin on his ear cause i had it in my hand at the time and threw him in the room for a few hours.

pin it down and take a shit on it lol.:thumbsup

Bitter Apple is only to keep them from chewing on shit, not to punish them.

Generally you have to be patient until they learn what you want and start doing it, which they will if you teach them. Punishment usually doesn't work unless you happen to catch them in the act. They don't associate the punishment with the deed itself and keep in mind they're not doing it to piss you off, they want to make you happy if you show them how.

They're just not that bright.

i use to squirt him with a water bottle but it didnt work that well, so i would put him in his cage for about 10-15 min and he hated that

It may be a bit old and people dont do it anymore. But you shove the cats or dogs nose in the pile of shit then pick them up and take the dog out side and shove its nose in a pile of shit outside. Or in the case its a cat put the cat in the littler box and put its nose in the pile of shit. It may be crule but it still works, yyou do that a few times and the animal will learn.
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Obedience school

super soaker style

Squirt bottle

I punish my cats by petting them constantly. I don't think my cats like me, so that's punishment enough! I got a second cat cause I was spending too much time playing with the first one, and I really wanted a lapcat. I still haven't found a lapcat.

I cant beleive how many people answered seriously to this thread :1orglaugh

bad cat = frozen ass (take him outside. then again hell probably fuck females, it wouldnt be much of a punishment huh? lol)

you arent supposed to associate going in its cage with doing something bad. when you do that every time you need to put him in the cage for whatever reason it thinks it did something bad.

my boss's dog ate a loaf of bread today and he took the bag and tied it to the dog's coller, drove the damn thing crazy.

Rather funny though.