With my cats, whenever they do something bad I just say “no!” And I go and pick them up and put them somewhere else. Eventually they learn and when you say no they just stop whatever they’re doing and go do something else. Works better than training with fear, imo.
I also have dry food available for my cats at all times and I only portion wet food. That’s stopped them from asking for food during the night. Probably not a good tip for households that also have dogs, however.
So nowadays I rarely get woken up. When I do it’s either because I haven’t played enough with them or because of some accident like tipping over something or whatever.
I have basically the same training technique. I have one cat that doesn’t eat all their wet food immediate. When the others have tried to jump in, that no makes them freeze, then lift and remove without pets or other recognition, eventually they stop trying.
Cats aren’t untrainable but they aren’t dogs so it requires different techniques and expectations.
For keeping the dry food away from dogs, I keep their free feeders in the cat trees but that means getting the ones that have a large enough middle platform.
I also feed them at night because they can’t make me going to sleep. They will make mad dashes to the area where they get wet food if they think I’m going to bed.
With my cats, whenever they do something bad I just say “no!” And I go and pick them up and put them somewhere else. Eventually they learn and when you say no they just stop whatever they’re doing and go do something else. Works better than training with fear, imo.
I also have dry food available for my cats at all times and I only portion wet food. That’s stopped them from asking for food during the night. Probably not a good tip for households that also have dogs, however.
So nowadays I rarely get woken up. When I do it’s either because I haven’t played enough with them or because of some accident like tipping over something or whatever.
I have basically the same training technique. I have one cat that doesn’t eat all their wet food immediate. When the others have tried to jump in, that no makes them freeze, then lift and remove without pets or other recognition, eventually they stop trying.
Cats aren’t untrainable but they aren’t dogs so it requires different techniques and expectations.
For keeping the dry food away from dogs, I keep their free feeders in the cat trees but that means getting the ones that have a large enough middle platform.
I also feed them at night because they can’t make me going to sleep. They will make mad dashes to the area where they get wet food if they think I’m going to bed.