Hey there! I’m a new cat Mom and I’m looking for some advice. My kitten Mako is going through just a horrid bratty phase. She’s got a good understanding of the word “no” and its consequences, she just…doesn’t seem to care?
Her worst behavioral problem is her near obsession with climbing window screens and blinds. I have put tape on them and she gets squirted with a spray bottle and removed when she does it. But within the past few days, she won’t stop climbing them no matter what I do. How do I get her to understand that that behavior is absolutely unacceptable?
The other behavioral problem of hers I’m slightly less worried about but would like tips on all the same. She seems to adore using any and all of my limbs as scratching posts. Now I understand that scratching is just a cat thing, and that wrestling is very much so a kitten behavior, but she has a scratching post (she’s getting more but she’s currently confined mostly to my room, we have 120 pound Leonberger who adores Mako, but doesn’t understand that she needs her space) and a surplus of toys to wrestle with. At this rate my feet are going to be permanently scarred from her little Thumper Butt behaviors.
Any and all tips would be more than greatly appreciated.
Thanks for your time,
Sam and Mako
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