Our male cat, Jack O. Katt, has some issues. One thing that issues from his furry carcass is urine.
This is fine. This is normal and good. It’s a sign of a healthy cat.
Yet in an insecure and territorial male cat who sees an outdoor cat wander by his window in an admittedly cocky and disrespecting fashion – daily – tends to want to mark his own domain.
His domain is our domain since he is a house cat and the items that suffer are legion. Just a few things: Clothes, rugs, bookcases, walls, wicker trunks, and recently a framed and matted picture of Cruel Wife and her sisters, Crazy Sister and Driven Sister.
Naturally the last item prompted Cruel Wife to put up curtains in the bay window to restrict the incarcerated kitty from viewing unwelcome visitors.
I just told him “So, you lost your room with a view. So sorry, but if you hadn’t pissed all over the house this might not have happened. Look, you get three squares a day, a large house to nap in anywhere you like, you get a generous medical and benefits package and the retirement plan is to die for. Is it so much to ask that you sit around and look pretty, purr every now and then, and not piss on the furnishings?”
He just stared at me.
Yeah, I don’t care what anyone says, you really can’t train a cat. I’ve read numerous articles by various people who all claim that keeping a spray bottle filled with water and spraying the cat, for instance when he jumps up on the kitchen table, to teach him not to go there, is an effective way of training the household feline.
I call bullshit.
All it’s trained my male siamese feline warrior cat is to be sneakier when jumping up on the kitchen table. Oh, and when nobody’s watching, knock the spray bottle off the table and then shove it under something where it won’t be found for a while.
I ♥ my dog
Ah, but dogs don’t purr. Also they do not have an awesome song like this one:
Advantage: cats.
But dogs give you unconditional devotion!
Advantage: DOGS!!
Check and mate!!
Dogs will jump all over you and get mud everywhere, all over you and the furniture and everything.
Cats would never behave like that.
Advantage: cats. Clearly.
Ah, but you can train a dog not to jump, to shit and piss outside, to fetch your slippers, to hunt.
Cats…?
To quote LK, “He just stared at me.”
Advantage…cats.
Dogs clean up their own puke and clean out the kitty litter for you.
Advantage dogs.
Dogs have owners.
Cats have staff.
This is why I picked a girl cat…even though I heard boy cats have friendlier temperaments. I didn’t want to deal with any potential “spraying” problems.
I hope your kitteh is better, Lemur King, and your family member, too, of course. I’ve had cats and dogs and Now I think I like cat’s more. Their purrs and when they actually come to you when you call them, what a nice feeling.