Jackson, I followed your advice for how to get your cat to let you sleep through the night. I thought my cat was the exception-that nothing would work. But guess what, within 4 days of consistency on my part, my cat fully stopped meowing through the night. We no longer get woken up by her. Thank you so much for your videos!
Mine had improved with the ignoring at all costs method but eventually he was still waking me up 6 in the morning scratching my face..before that he was barely sleeping at night!!! Eventually I bought a feeding machine and he never woke me up ever since
The solution for my cat was to sleep on my pillow with me. I found that she was meowing for me so she solved it by being as close as possible to me at all times.
My cat's problem is not meowing anymore :(. She also never purrs and when she does its the quietest thing ive ever (barely) heard. And when she does meow it sounds like she has been a chainsmoker for 10 years
@@notreyone4 Ooh that sounds like it could be a medical issue I am no expert but have you asked her vet? My boy cat has never purred and when he does it sounds like he is a chain smoker too it is such a weird thing I have had so many cats but never one that did not purr or just sounded raspy when he purrs I am not even sure he is purring unless I touch his throat can't even hear it all all just feel it when he is on my lap but this boy can yowl there is nothing at all wrong with his voice.
@@lunadumbledore2883 OMG mine was the exact same with the feeding machine! The only difference is that he would slap me on my face with his paws and would "brush" my hair :)
I accidentally trained my cat to steal my desk chair every time I stand up because I gave her a treat to get her off without moving her a couple of times 🤡🤡🤡
@@2020Dumpsterfire -- Maybe get yourself another chair, or have an easy platform so your senior kitty can be beside you. She likes being with you, likes your scent on the chair, and it's warm and cozy, all good things from a cat's point of view. You can either alternate between two chairs or have a nice nearby spot for her to hang out with you. (Heck, it works for a young cat too.) -- I sympathize. My senior cat wants (and needs) extra attention. -- Lately, he's started getting between me and the keyboard and screen, and he lies down and wants attention. I'm having trouble resisting because he's getting old and frail, and the junior miss teenage kitten pesters him. The extra chair or place to curl up is just an idea to try. )
@@benw9949 Its actually not my chair but my spot on the bed which is only a twin so i have no where else to sit, and she has a nice pillow right next to me but prefers my pillow or my spot lmao. Its just the moment I get up I have to put something there or she'll steal the spot. I just cave and give her treats, she never bothered with treats when she was young so she can have them now. She also finds her ways to crawl onto my lap tho she prefers even closer like on my chest. She puts her paws on my right arm and basically just keeps them on me as I continue to type and work on my laptop lol. Pandemic hasnt helped the neediness, now if I just leave my room to go to the kitchen shell yowl for me.
@@2020Dumpsterfire I recommend looking up a JG video and finding small ways to help her gain some independence so you can leave the house for essential errands and likely even return to work. What he said in this video ab "enriching environment"--giving her other favorable places to play, hide, perch--may be a good place to start.
I solved this problem giving my cat a routine. I also am always home, but we have the time for playing together, time for eating, time for going outside, time for cuddling, time for sleep together and time for human to do her things and kitty to do her things. It took me almost 3 weeks, and sometimes she still tries, but less and less
@@tee3219 The same is my cat, My cat got used to doing the same things (schedule) all days at the same time, they will let you know when is time hehehe :)
When my cat was a kitten I thought him to stand on his hind legs for a treat now he’s three years old and every time he wants food he stands on his hind legs and begs. Oops 😬 😅
My cat does this when he’s bored😭😭 I also work from home so he seems to think I’m available to play alllll day because I do sometimes stop to play with him🥺
I will say to the cupboard thing, its not always about treats/food. My cat tries to open every cupboard and drawer when she wants attention while I'm working, because she knows I can hear it. There are no treats or food they get behind those doors, she just knows the noise will get us to notice her xD
Mine will out of boredom too. Not even to get attention, she opens ones where there’s something soft she can sleep on, like it’s a fully enclosed kitty condo. She’ll try and open kitchen cabinets to explore/sniff (it’s like forbidden fruit: even more intriguing since she can’t usually check it out).
Does she get the sock draw too lol seen many a cat do that my only shame is my cat doesn't make me a coffee when I tell him too do oh well feed him it is lol xx
The "just ignore them" thing is soooo hard but it definitely works. I accidentally left Nova's dehydrated meat soaking on the counter and she got at it one night, and for the next week or so, she kept jumping up on the counter which is not a behaviour I want! But after 5-6 days of me not responding and her finding nothing, she stopped doing it again. Ignoring a cat is kind of like quitting smoking: the first week is the hardest :P
One of my cats sounds like this when she is trying to get me to follow her. I just kinda interpreted it as her communicating with me and even appreciate it. I love talking cats.
for real, when the scene of that cat playing violin comes up..that's totally the dynamic between me and my cat. she has trained me incredibly well. she knows exactly which button to push to get what she wants. she's so spoiled and definitely aware of it...
I have gotten really lucky that my cat takes cues from my routine instead of time or her own desires. She knows she gets breakfast AFTER I am ready for the day regardless of me getting up at 6am or 10am. She has never once tried to wake me up because me waking up doesn’t mean food. She also knows that when I get home from work she gets a hello snuggle and then I go change clothes. Only after I am out of my work clothes does she get food so she won’t ask for it until I am done. If she’s not getting and afternoon snack today then we skip the behavioral cue. That means we can do routines whenever we want because her cue comes from our behavior. It’s much easier than trying to stick to a cat routine. Just incorporate your cat’s needs into your routine.
My cat is clingy, vocal, and runs around “randomly,” and I’ve been watching all your videos for answers or clues as to what to examine next (still haven’t figured out this “mama’s boy!”) I have to say, watching this I am so impressed and love how you approach what not only people are doing wrong, but what they are doing right. It comes from the heart and understanding and provides everyone with respect toward their relationship with their cat. Love it!
I have one like that. She wants to be in my lap 24/7. When I get up, she'll jump onto my back and perch on my shoulders if I'm standing still. It's gotten a tiny bit better since she's been spayed.
Theo knows that I will let him onto the front porch whenever he asks, so he will go to the door to get me out off the couch, Once I'm up, he runs into the kitchen for treats.
My cat requests a family picture of jackson with all his cats🤓 she says all she sees is you every time, where are all the stars of the Galaxy family??😂😸😸😸😸😸😸😸😸😸
Nina sometimes comes into the kitchen when I have hot pans/flames going. I used to throw a treat for her to chase to get her out...until she started being underfoot A LOT more. Then I realised I'd basically been rewarding her for bothering me...
Wow. Mo mo is my cat. Verbatim. Same yowl, same pawing. Same WFH situation....Which means same solution! Buttons to the yowl, silence is gold. Btw She now does the silent stare... hoping Ill reward.
Thank you for the flashing light warning! I have photosensitive migraine (triggered by flashing lights) and I really appreciate it. I scrolled the page so I can listen to the video without watching it. A+!
I just adopted 2 female cats from a friend who's owner died of Covid. I've had them for 4 months now. Chloe has a habit of licking plastic bags. I use them as wastebasket liners and she chews and licks on the ends. She even dragged one out of the wastebasket and ran off with it.
Maybe try to rub the plastic bags with lemons/lemon juice? I'm sure they'll stop when that flavour hits them and they'll associate the bin with lemon taste
Buy some small trashcan liners and see if it makes a difference. I like to get the ones that have a scent of flowers on or in them. She probably will not like the taste
My older cat yowls randomly. It’s hilarious and I do find myself laughing when she starts up 😂 I don’t give her treats or try to hold her though, so I’m not sure if my laughing is just as rewarding.
My house is FULL of toys and scratching posts and towers and windows everywhere to look outside. My cat will SCREAM and throw a tantrum - only getting louder and louder if he's ignored. No amount of ignoring him works, so I'm just genuinely at my wit's end. (The puzzle toy IS nice, but doesn't stop him from yelling for what he wants - which is usually to go outside - and he DOES get to go outside, but he can't be out there ALL the time. Now the kitten is learning from him, to start crying and scratching the door to go out.) The babies are hyper intelligent, and know that if they just keep meowing louder, eventually we can't take it anymore.
Gotcha well trained to respond to the relentless meowing because the cat knows he can out-meow your patience. Now he’s showin’ the youngster how it’s done.
This is the same problem I'm having!! And my bf wants to get our cat a cat siblings but I refuse to agree because I feel my cat will teach it these bad habits😭 mind you she starts when it time for us to go to bed
My cats have me fully trained and rewards me with loads of snuggles when I give them what they want🤣🤣. My 19 year old daughter keeps telling me to stop giving them what they want🤣. We must just be lucky because our cats are so well behaved. But they when they want something they have no problem letting me know, they know I'll give In. I guess I'm old and tired😂🤣
Not only does my Princess Cuddles wake me at 4 am, she has trained her “sister” to do the same 🙀🙀😹. They walk back and forth on my tum and chest until I get up. If I close my bedroom door, they seriously perform Reveille, substituting MEOWS for a bugle. I would not put it past them to find a trumpet and learn to play it, anything to make me rise and feed quicker than I already am. Oh and if I get up to pee, say around 2:30am or 3:00, they have no trouble following me and doing serious rubbing, all in the hope that human peeing in cat language means FEED ME NOW😹😹. But I LOVE them dearly.
As I'm watching this my cat Kevin came up and did this to me, but he's taken to using his claws to get my attention so I'll pick him up and hold him I AM THE FIDDLE
Jackson, I adopted a kitten about a month ago and your videos have been a lifesaver! Me and my kitten have established pretty good routine thanks to your advice
My cats do play me like a fiddle, I know it, and love it. My problem is worse, cause I don't hate what they do, it is so adorable they are communicating anything that I don't care they are manipulating me.
i recently got a cat, and the previous owners said she will usually hide for days in a new environment. with us, she just hid for 20 minutes and i could even pet her at the first day. your videos taught me a lot of knowledge and it's going great !
Despite being an indoor-outdoor cat, having cat siblings, and playtime everyday, my one cat had trouble with excessive meowing and mounting the other cats. Then I got a food puzzle and put one meal a day of his in the food puzzle and he calmed down and the behavior problems went away.
My cats have me trained quite well. If they want to be picked up and pet and I don't pick them up then they jump up and climb up. They don't understand the word "No". They understand I want my way, I get my way. But I wouldn't change them for all the money in the world. They're my fur babies and spoiled rotten. They have me very well trained. 😃😊🙂
My cat does not enjoy me working at home. Because I'm not paying attention to him. I don't give Otis snacks but he definitely gets hugs and lap time when he gives me the cry from the depths of his soul! I am guilty!
I love how this is actually just like behaviour management for kids in the classroom! model/demonstrate good behaviour, reward good behaviour, don't reward bad behaviour. still haven't got kitty off the benches though...
My cat just runs around doing this - he doesn't always want anything. He does have me trained in the mornings tho to let him out. These two are very much like my two - the laid-back black kitty (who's also older) and the bratty teen b&w. Unfortunately, he can't just be loose at night because of the dog.
My god!!! I can’t tell you how much your videos have helped me I’m 23 and a first time cat owner I got a 3 month old kitten from the shelter where I live at, she is the sweetest thing so thank god she has been patient with me Cuz I have been doing so many things wrong!! Thank u so much for your videos they are really so much help :)
@Sweetly Dark Books Mine also tends to open cabinets just for the sake of opening them. Mostly the bottom ones because theyre the easiest to reach. So sometimes I come home to all the cabinet doors open and him tucked away in the higher one. Lol.
I have a cat that loves opening doors and drawers. Just opening them, even some that are really heavy and require a lot of work to open, and then leaves. Often his brother comes and gets into the opened pantry or drawer. Maybe that second cat has trained the first one to do all the work for him 😁
From what I’ve read the maximum time you want to go between meals is 12 hours. So that sounds good. I don’t know what time you go to bed, but it might even be worth feeding him a little bit later. I go to bed at around 11:30/12 and I feed my cat at around 10/10:30 so that he sleeps through the night and we’re on the same sleep schedule. I do 9am/6pm/10 pm.
@@susanscott3333 My kitten is always acting like he is hungry, but we feed him more than the can suggests. Per vet instruction. But he is still ravenous. He is active, a healthy weight, and strong. I still worry though. I don't want to overfeed him, but I cannot imagine cutting his food back like the can suggests when he is a year old. I know those are generalized figures anyways.
I retired last October. My male cat Jiji does something similar to what Momo does, yowling as he walks down the hall, only he's usually dragging a piece of clothing or a small towel down the hall as he does. This looks like it should help. Thanks!!
@@kitchenboy69 Not quite. Photosensitivity can cause many different responses. Thankfully my Photosensitivity issues are not seizure related, but migraine. Flashing lights or lots of color tend to give me migraines and trigger a lot of neurological issues (slurring speech, loss of coordination, inability to process thoughts)
hello Jackson ! can you please make a video about how is it ok or not to leave your cat alone when you're on holidays ? I've met several people who told me they just left their cat ( it's a cat ! they can survive like this! )alone with enough food/water, and how their cat behavior might have changed afterwards. It's maybe for 3 days but someone told me 3 weeks !!! i feel in my stomach that's not ok ! thanks for your videoooos, bisous from France !
I’ve heard Jackson tell us that it is not ok to leave your cat alone with a bowl of food and water. They might survive but their personalities will change and there will lose trust in you. I damaged their minds as well as your relationship with your pet. They need contact with humans
i saw in this video that the cat didn't step on the stove. How do we prevent a cat to go there? That's something that always scared me, because the lights are turned off, but it's still hot.
Hey Jackson, my cat has a bad behavior that she bites my hands when Im paying games on my computer at my desk. Im not sure how to ignore this behavior since it is hurting me and directly interfering with what Im doing
Love your videos Jackson!! Can you do a video about how to help a wallflower cat eat more than once a day? Any advice about wallflowers would be very helpful to me!
My cat yells at me like that for pettings. We talk to eachother for like 15 minutes, where he "Talks me into it." And then I give him lots of love. We both enjoy the interaction. ❤
I do that. I give my Cat what she is asking for... I cave in. I am played like a fiddle. This is me. lol.😁 When my cat use to wake me up at 4 am for food. I done that and ignored her. It stopped. But with the treat she wants. She keeps begging for all the time. I try to ignor her. I guess I need to work on that again. Ty Cat Daddy. Hmm. May have to get her a Puzzle Toy.
My biggest fear is definitely how my cat will handle me going to back to work! She is a covid kitten so she's never known a time that I wasn't with her practically 24/7. Also my bedroom is very small (the other areas of the house have rabbits and birds so she has to stay in my room unless I lock the others up and let her out) so I often feel guilty about that. :( What are some other good ways to help her stay active while I'm gone?
If sis is anything like our girl cat, she'll play it cool and aloof, let her brother do all the hard work, then appear from nowhere to reap the rewards.
Cats train us 😂 my senior cat meows when he wants food but i admit i give in more since he is my first senior pet since living on my own im also worried more easy about him
My cat does the same and it's usually because he wants food. Unfortunately I do give in sometimes because he starts attacking me, trying to get my arms or legs while I'm sitting down working or walking around. I haven't been able to figure out how to make things better with him.
Maybee get an other cat my cat did that too he was just bored even though we played a lot it‘s just not the same most cats really don’t want to be the only cat ☺️ and two cats is really not twice the work just like 30% more 😅
My cat will bite me, sometimes to the point of drawing blood, if I don't give him treats on demand. He's supposed to be on a diet as he is slightly overweight. He is loving most of the time, but will also do this if he considers I'm on the phone too long and I've never been able to watch an entire film since I got him because he gets annoyed that I'm not paying him attention, so it usually takes at least 3 goes to watch a film. He has been checked multiple times for any health issues and is checked over, deflead and wormed every 3 months. I play with him, he can see out of the windows which have bird feeders in front of them and he has access to the garden whenever he wants.
Thank you for this great advice. But I am wondering if you could make a video about how to train cats/kittens to go on a leash, so they can go on hikes, and how to travel with them on a long car ride. Thank you!
We are so well trained by our pets…even our tortoise knows how to get what he wants by being naughty. How sad is that? Two dogs, two cats, a chicken and a tortoise have our number🫤. Thank you for this wake-up call!
Yes my cat plays me like a fiddle every day. 😅🎻 She meows until I get up and follow her to the bathroom and pet her. Its so hard to ignore her though! I love getting kitty snuggles. Maybe its not really so bad to be owned by a cat?
My cat howls like this (usually a louder, more gutteral sound; she genuinely sounds hurt) about 3 times a day for about a minute. This is after being fed and played with. I have ignored it every single time since I brought her home over a month ago but she keeps doing it so I think it’s just her talking to me. It doesn’t really bother me because it’s such a short duration, at this point I think it’s just funny and pathetic. 😂
My sister felt the same way about, so called, feral cats. They allow you to feed them, then take them in. She thought they “planned” for your slow seduction.
my cat has me trained lol she has started not letting me carry her unless i bring her to her favorite window she cant reach on her own. If I bring her there she purrs and snuggles up to me, if i dont she jumps down and ignores me
Jackson, I've been watching you for years now. (On tv, not as a stalker, I don't have the kind of disposable income that would require). I've implemented your advice with every kitty I have lived with and I don't know how I would have coped with the 8years of sharing my life with a LARGE bengal cat named Pippin, if it wasn't for you and your advice. I've been seriously considering looking into a career in cat behavior/cat phycology, something like that. Any tips?
I find that cats are the most enjoyable when they are trying to control me. It adds a higher level to our interactions, along with play, feedings, and our other routines.
Worrying about my younger cat's squeaking/barking has led to him doing it more consistently. Now that I know that he's okay (just bored and wanting to play or go outside), it's okay to let him be. Unfortunately, I'm still trying to reinforce the talking buttons I have so........
When my cat gets bored and start randomly meowing, I'll shout "hi, Eliza". Within seconds, she'll appear from wherever she was, look at me, and then jump on my stomach and insist I pet her. Either I trained her to come up to me when she's bored, or she trained me to pet her when she meows.
Cats are good at that... my indoor/outdoor cat Sebastian was being a dick to his (also indoor/outdoor) non-biological brother Misty a while back so we put him back outside in hopes of discouraging that behavior. And then it happened again. And again. Pretty soon, we realized he was picking on Misty when he wanted to go back outside :/
this is definitely my siamese cat. he demands constant attention and will spill his water and food all over the floor just to get me off the couch.. i’m definitely going to just start ignoring him until he gets the hint that he cannot boss me around.
OMG this video is perfect for me. We have two CH cats and the girl just meows incessantly sometimes. They are both fixed since 3 months old. She has done it less ever since we stopped doing things that reinforced the behavior, and made sure to include more structured/scheduled play times.
Dog Trainer Here, Great advice, great example, very easy to follow and informative. My favorite part was when you stressed on the Reinforcing for a separate behavior.
Ugh - guilty as charged! My 10 week old kitten, Mikey, is obsessed with playing in, and climbing my curtains! Every time he is in (or ON) them I pick him and and walk around with him for a few minutes. Most of the time this calms him down from what I like to call "monster mode" where he is doing everything he can to burn off every last shred of energy that he has in his tiny little body. So this a HUUUUGE THANK YOU from me to you for showing me the error of my ways. Now I either distract him with something else, or I simply relocate him to a more appropriate part of the house. :)
Ok so I’m trying out this advice right now🙈 I always thought my cat is in a desperate need of play when she does this and that I’m a bad neglecting parent if I don’t play right away coz then she’ll be depressed🙈 she doesn’t like treats (not even liquid ones!) so food is not the issue. How much is ok to let her be ”bored”? I suffer from ME/CFS and can’t always get up to play when she starts meeeeoooow and scratching😰
Yeah, they know when they have a fiddle in the house! My mom couldn't understand why our cats started becoming "annoying". Then we realised it started when she retired... i don't give in easily when they want something (which, funnily enough, annoys my mom) and she does... Of course they'd be more annoying now that she's home all the time! It took me some time to make her understand that the male only annoyed her in the middle of the night when he wanted something was because she got up and I pretended not to when he tried, and he gave up on me! (or I didn't hear him, I have a rather deep sleep) "Weirdly" enough, when she finally stopped getting up for him, he stopped!
I don't know if you've ever done a video about cats that don't eat unless their human is present. I don't think there are that many of cats like this but I've heard about it before. My cat is one of them unfortunately. She needs someone to watch her eating. Plus her pancreas is chronically bad and she doesn't feel hunger like healthy cats do. When she's home alone she just doesn't eat, and once I'm finally back home she hasn't been eating long enough for it to make her sick. I'm going back to work next week, and I'm so anxious about how she'll manage this that I can't even sleep at night :-/ Guess we're both gonna have separation anxiety.
She calls that bad behavior??? LOOOOOOL!!! I have a devil! Literally! It breaks everything, jumps on on everything and has 6 hour long zoomies!! Never cuddles and hates being picked up and touched. Try fixing that xD
I’m losing my mind!! I have 2 cats, 12 months and 14 months old, and the older one it’s a bully 🥺😵💫 how can I make him stop being so hard on my other cat? HELP!!! 😭😭
Yes you are right we are just violins on cats hands lol 😂 my cats scratch my kids doors at 6 am when they wants me to let them out! Not mine but my children one because they know I'll hurry not to wake the kids up!!
Okay... But I don't ever feed my cats outside of meal times and nail clippings. So why is my cat doing this except *way* louder, sadder, and more echoey? And before I was working from home all day? Oh yeah, and he scratches at cabinets that don't contain any food whatsoever, human or feline. He's constantly trying to get into kitchen cupboards that contain nothing but pots, pans, tupperware, etc. Riddle me THAT, Jackson!
My flatmate has two adorable cats called "Einstein" and "Sodom" and the latter one did this while walking around or going to a different floor in the flat. What seemed to help us was due to him not really loving being picked up, just starting picking him up every time he did this and after a while he stopped, because he seemed to associate this kind of meowing with being picked up which he did not want. In the end he just seemed to find it a little annoying, and just wanted to go down again, so that seemed like good way to get him to stop. He shortly after developed a better way of communicating with us and usually just meowed similarily just once to annoumce himself before looking for us to get a short cuddle session and then chilling somewhere for the next hours. And he learned our sleep schedules so he usually did that before we went to sleep with someone who was still awake, without waking up anyone, got his good night snuggles and let us sleep the whole night. And whats interesting is that when beforehand he tried during his more annoying phase to get us to open out dors by just meowing for several minutes, he just tries it like one or two times and either comes in for a short cuddle when we let him, or otherwise just goes and does something else.
oh. I feel called out. My girl cat does this every night and every morning looking for us to play. She makes these crazy sounds and eventually I get sick of it and I get out of bed to play with her (even at 5:45am). Oh my. I'm the problem, lol.
Jackson, how do I befriend an older female calico cat named “Callie.” She’s 12 years old. She avoids me and I tried everything. Callie once belonged to my mother, but she died last August.
My cat used to spend all our money on gambling and booze. Now its just the booze. Thanks for the video
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Jackson, I followed your advice for how to get your cat to let you sleep through the night. I thought my cat was the exception-that nothing would work. But guess what, within 4 days of consistency on my part, my cat fully stopped meowing through the night. We no longer get woken up by her. Thank you so much for your videos!
Mine had improved with the ignoring at all costs method but eventually he was still waking me up 6 in the morning scratching my face..before that he was barely sleeping at night!!! Eventually I bought a feeding machine and he never woke me up ever since
The solution for my cat was to sleep on my pillow with me. I found that she was meowing for me so she solved it by being as close as possible to me at all times.
My cat's problem is not meowing anymore :(. She also never purrs and when she does its the quietest thing ive ever (barely) heard. And when she does meow it sounds like she has been a chainsmoker for 10 years
@@notreyone4 Ooh that sounds like it could be a medical issue I am no expert but have you asked her vet? My boy cat has never purred and when he does it sounds like he is a chain smoker too it is such a weird thing I have had so many cats but never one that did not purr or just sounded raspy when he purrs I am not even sure he is purring unless I touch his throat can't even hear it all all just feel it when he is on my lap but this boy can yowl there is nothing at all wrong with his voice.
@@lunadumbledore2883 OMG mine was the exact same with the feeding machine! The only difference is that he would slap me on my face with his paws and would "brush" my hair :)
I accidentally trained my cat to steal my desk chair every time I stand up because I gave her a treat to get her off without moving her a couple of times 🤡🤡🤡
Same but if I try to move her she screams so loudly and I feel bad because she's 15 years old 😭
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@@2020Dumpsterfire -- Maybe get yourself another chair, or have an easy platform so your senior kitty can be beside you. She likes being with you, likes your scent on the chair, and it's warm and cozy, all good things from a cat's point of view. You can either alternate between two chairs or have a nice nearby spot for her to hang out with you. (Heck, it works for a young cat too.) -- I sympathize. My senior cat wants (and needs) extra attention. -- Lately, he's started getting between me and the keyboard and screen, and he lies down and wants attention. I'm having trouble resisting because he's getting old and frail, and the junior miss teenage kitten pesters him. The extra chair or place to curl up is just an idea to try. )
@@benw9949 Its actually not my chair but my spot on the bed which is only a twin so i have no where else to sit, and she has a nice pillow right next to me but prefers my pillow or my spot lmao. Its just the moment I get up I have to put something there or she'll steal the spot. I just cave and give her treats, she never bothered with treats when she was young so she can have them now. She also finds her ways to crawl onto my lap tho she prefers even closer like on my chest. She puts her paws on my right arm and basically just keeps them on me as I continue to type and work on my laptop lol. Pandemic hasnt helped the neediness, now if I just leave my room to go to the kitchen shell yowl for me.
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I recommend looking up a JG video and finding small ways to help her gain some independence so you can leave the house for essential errands and likely even return to work.
What he said in this video ab "enriching environment"--giving her other favorable places to play, hide, perch--may be a good place to start.
I solved this problem giving my cat a routine. I also am always home, but we have the time for playing together, time for eating, time for going outside, time for cuddling, time for sleep together and time for human to do her things and kitty to do her things.
It took me almost 3 weeks, and sometimes she still tries, but less and less
So...how did you go about training her?
@@tee3219 The same is my cat, My cat got used to doing the same things (schedule) all days at the same time, they will let you know when is time hehehe :)
When my cat was a kitten I thought him to stand on his hind legs for a treat now he’s three years old and every time he wants food he stands on his hind legs and begs. Oops 😬 😅
Same and love it😻
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My cat does this when he’s bored😭😭 I also work from home so he seems to think I’m available to play alllll day because I do sometimes stop to play with him🥺
Same
Whenever my cat hear my mobile or any other sounds from my social , He's runnig right away to me.
Same
yup...
As soon as my cat hears me reach for my phone in the morning he knows I'm awake and comes running
I will say to the cupboard thing, its not always about treats/food. My cat tries to open every cupboard and drawer when she wants attention while I'm working, because she knows I can hear it. There are no treats or food they get behind those doors, she just knows the noise will get us to notice her xD
Same with mine. 😑😆
I thought my cat was the only one that did that! She knows that way she will get attention! It’s impressive how smart cats are!
Mine will out of boredom too. Not even to get attention, she opens ones where there’s something soft she can sleep on, like it’s a fully enclosed kitty condo. She’ll try and open kitchen cabinets to explore/sniff (it’s like forbidden fruit: even more intriguing since she can’t usually check it out).
Sigma used to do this too
Does she get the sock draw too lol seen many a cat do that my only shame is my cat doesn't make me a coffee when I tell him too do oh well feed him it is lol xx
The "just ignore them" thing is soooo hard but it definitely works. I accidentally left Nova's dehydrated meat soaking on the counter and she got at it one night, and for the next week or so, she kept jumping up on the counter which is not a behaviour I want! But after 5-6 days of me not responding and her finding nothing, she stopped doing it again. Ignoring a cat is kind of like quitting smoking: the first week is the hardest :P
One of my cats sounds like this when she is trying to get me to follow her. I just kinda interpreted it as her communicating with me and even appreciate it. I love talking cats.
for real, when the scene of that cat playing violin comes up..that's totally the dynamic between me and my cat. she has trained me incredibly well. she knows exactly which button to push to get what she wants. she's so spoiled and definitely aware of it...
@Ella Claire. She is not spoiled just well loved by you, her servant 😹😹
I'am sure he is proud of you XD
Oh yes!😂😂
Time to go buy a clicker and turn the tables on her!
I get that too you don't own a cat they own you !!😂😂❤🎉
The production value on these videos has increased a lot - kudos to Jackson's team!
Jackson galaxy one of the best cat trainers in my opinion
Not even an opinion, it’s a FACT!😆
THE best! 🥰
You mean cat savior, people trainer :D
He trains humans.
Are there enough “cat trainers” in existence for there to even be a ranking...?
I have gotten really lucky that my cat takes cues from my routine instead of time or her own desires. She knows she gets breakfast AFTER I am ready for the day regardless of me getting up at 6am or 10am. She has never once tried to wake me up because me waking up doesn’t mean food. She also knows that when I get home from work she gets a hello snuggle and then I go change clothes. Only after I am out of my work clothes does she get food so she won’t ask for it until I am done. If she’s not getting and afternoon snack today then we skip the behavioral cue. That means we can do routines whenever we want because her cue comes from our behavior. It’s much easier than trying to stick to a cat routine. Just incorporate your cat’s needs into your routine.
My cat is clingy, vocal, and runs around “randomly,” and I’ve been watching all your videos for answers or clues as to what to examine next (still haven’t figured out this “mama’s boy!”) I have to say, watching this I am so impressed and love how you approach what not only people are doing wrong, but what they are doing right. It comes from the heart and understanding and provides everyone with respect toward their relationship with their cat. Love it!
I'm right there with you. It's a journey. Mine is trying to bond with my phone. Hard to watch Jackson with a calico head in the way
I have one like that. She wants to be in my lap 24/7. When I get up, she'll jump onto my back and perch on my shoulders if I'm standing still. It's gotten a tiny bit better since she's been spayed.
I'm watching this shaking my head at my cat because this is exactly how he trained me to give him treats..............
Theo knows that I will let him onto the front porch whenever he asks, so he will go to the door to get me out off the couch, Once I'm up, he runs into the kitchen for treats.
We trained our cat to poof up like Halloween kitty to get treats. It’s hilarious.
😂
My cat requests a family picture of jackson with all his cats🤓 she says all she sees is you every time, where are all the stars of the Galaxy family??😂😸😸😸😸😸😸😸😸😸
My cat: meows, grazes his butt against my face, rubs his sides against me, looks at me...
Me: awww how cute... here’s some food for you.
Exactly. Now mine are fat.
@@sagorikasinha4966 *a- are they dead yet*
@@sagorikasinha4966 Awwwhhh 😹🙀
Nina sometimes comes into the kitchen when I have hot pans/flames going. I used to throw a treat for her to chase to get her out...until she started being underfoot A LOT more. Then I realised I'd basically been rewarding her for bothering me...
Wow. Mo mo is my cat. Verbatim. Same yowl, same pawing. Same WFH situation....Which means same solution! Buttons to the yowl, silence is gold. Btw She now does the silent stare... hoping Ill reward.
Maybe it's a Momo thing?
My naughty Siamese needs Jackson's training in his life!
Mine is getting that training 🤣 since day one in my life. When I ask my hub to stop doing smth because training he answers: yes Jackson 🤣🤣🤣😅😅😅
Thank you for the flashing light warning! I have photosensitive migraine (triggered by flashing lights) and I really appreciate it. I scrolled the page so I can listen to the video without watching it. A+!
I could listen to this man talk about cats forever! lol
I just adopted 2 female cats from a friend who's owner died of Covid. I've had them for 4 months now. Chloe has a habit of licking plastic bags. I use them as wastebasket liners and she chews and licks on the ends. She even dragged one out of the wastebasket and ran off with it.
Mine also love to lick plasticnags
Maybe try to rub the plastic bags with lemons/lemon juice? I'm sure they'll stop when that flavour hits them and they'll associate the bin with lemon taste
You may want to get a trash can with a lid. Some have a way to open them with your foot.
Thanks for adopting those babies❣ I can't imagine what would ever happen to my little boy if something would happen to me 😕
Buy some small trashcan liners and see if it makes a difference. I like to get the ones that have a scent of flowers on or in them. She probably will not like the taste
My older cat yowls randomly. It’s hilarious and I do find myself laughing when she starts up 😂 I don’t give her treats or try to hold her though, so I’m not sure if my laughing is just as rewarding.
Get her a senior blood test to see if she has hyperthyroid and/or kidney disease
My house is FULL of toys and scratching posts and towers and windows everywhere to look outside. My cat will SCREAM and throw a tantrum - only getting louder and louder if he's ignored. No amount of ignoring him works, so I'm just genuinely at my wit's end. (The puzzle toy IS nice, but doesn't stop him from yelling for what he wants - which is usually to go outside - and he DOES get to go outside, but he can't be out there ALL the time. Now the kitten is learning from him, to start crying and scratching the door to go out.) The babies are hyper intelligent, and know that if they just keep meowing louder, eventually we can't take it anymore.
Gotcha well trained to respond to the relentless meowing because the cat knows he can out-meow your patience. Now he’s showin’ the youngster how it’s done.
This is the same problem I'm having!! And my bf wants to get our cat a cat siblings but I refuse to agree because I feel my cat will teach it these bad habits😭 mind you she starts when it time for us to go to bed
My cats have me fully trained and rewards me with loads of snuggles when I give them what they want🤣🤣. My 19 year old daughter keeps telling me to stop giving them what they want🤣. We must just be lucky because our cats are so well behaved. But they when they want something they have no problem letting me know, they know I'll give In. I guess I'm old and tired😂🤣
Not only does my Princess Cuddles wake me at 4 am, she has trained her “sister” to do the same 🙀🙀😹. They walk back and forth on my tum and chest until I get up. If I close my bedroom door, they seriously perform Reveille, substituting MEOWS for a bugle. I would not put it past them to find a trumpet and learn to play it, anything to make me rise and feed quicker than I already am. Oh and if I get up to pee, say around 2:30am or 3:00, they have no trouble following me and doing serious rubbing, all in the hope that human peeing in cat language means FEED ME NOW😹😹. But I LOVE them dearly.
Cats are basically toddlers with claws.
As I'm watching this my cat Kevin came up and did this to me, but he's taken to using his claws to get my attention so I'll pick him up and hold him
I AM THE FIDDLE
Jackson, I adopted a kitten about a month ago and your videos have been a lifesaver! Me and my kitten have established pretty good routine thanks to your advice
My cats do play me like a fiddle, I know it, and love it.
My problem is worse, cause I don't hate what they do, it is so adorable they are communicating anything that I don't care they are manipulating me.
i recently got a cat, and the previous owners said she will usually hide for days in a new environment. with us, she just hid for 20 minutes and i could even pet her at the first day. your videos taught me a lot of knowledge and it's going great !
Despite being an indoor-outdoor cat, having cat siblings, and playtime everyday, my one cat had trouble with excessive meowing and mounting the other cats. Then I got a food puzzle and put one meal a day of his in the food puzzle and he calmed down and the behavior problems went away.
Love the tshirt. My coffee cup reads "I am silently correcting your grammar".
My cats have me trained quite well. If they want to be picked up and pet and I don't pick them up then they jump up and climb up. They don't understand the word "No". They understand I want my way, I get my way. But I wouldn't change them for all the money in the world. They're my fur babies and spoiled rotten. They have me very well trained. 😃😊🙂
My cat does not enjoy me working at home. Because I'm not paying attention to him. I don't give Otis snacks but he definitely gets hugs and lap time when he gives me the cry from the depths of his soul! I am guilty!
My cat starts peeing everywhere if I ignore him 😭😭😭 help me I got like so many liter boxes for him too no hoods fml
I have the same problem. I have a cat like Momo but he also wakes me up at 4am. If I just ignore him he will pee on something 😣
I love how this is actually just like behaviour management for kids in the classroom! model/demonstrate good behaviour, reward good behaviour, don't reward bad behaviour.
still haven't got kitty off the benches though...
My cat just runs around doing this - he doesn't always want anything. He does have me trained in the mornings tho to let him out. These two are very much like my two - the laid-back black kitty (who's also older) and the bratty teen b&w.
Unfortunately, he can't just be loose at night because of the dog.
My god!!! I can’t tell you how much your videos have helped me I’m 23 and a first time cat owner I got a 3 month old kitten from the shelter where I live at, she is the sweetest thing so thank god she has been patient with me Cuz I have been doing so many things wrong!! Thank u so much for your videos they are really so much help :)
My cat always tries to get into the cabinets. Regardless of what's in there. His favorite ones are the one with my pans and the one with paper towels.
Same! My cat just likes pushing our pots and pans out of our cabinets! 😂
@Sweetly Dark Books Mine also tends to open cabinets just for the sake of opening them. Mostly the bottom ones because theyre the easiest to reach. So sometimes I come home to all the cabinet doors open and him tucked away in the higher one. Lol.
@@xKittenKissesx Maybe they're being noisy to get your attention. Lol.
I have a cat that loves opening doors and drawers. Just opening them, even some that are really heavy and require a lot of work to open, and then leaves. Often his brother comes and gets into the opened pantry or drawer. Maybe that second cat has trained the first one to do all the work for him 😁
@@stephanebessette6471 Clever boys!
i feed my cat 3 meals a day in 9am /3pm/9pm is it good times for her?
10am-bigger meal, 6pm, 12am is what we do...
Same question.
From what I’ve read the maximum time you want to go between meals is 12 hours. So that sounds good. I don’t know what time you go to bed, but it might even be worth feeding him a little bit later. I go to bed at around 11:30/12 and I feed my cat at around 10/10:30 so that he sleeps through the night and we’re on the same sleep schedule. I do 9am/6pm/10 pm.
I feed him when he's hungry, all wet food, he's very healthy as per the vet and a perfect weight.
@@susanscott3333 My kitten is always acting like he is hungry, but we feed him more than the can suggests. Per vet instruction.
But he is still ravenous.
He is active, a healthy weight, and strong.
I still worry though. I don't want to overfeed him, but I cannot imagine cutting his food back like the can suggests when he is a year old. I know those are generalized figures anyways.
That sounds exactly like what he's adviced in past videos! Seems like great times, if it's working for you! He has said that 3-4 meals a day is best.
I retired last October. My male cat Jiji does something similar to what Momo does, yowling as he walks down the hall, only he's usually dragging a piece of clothing or a small towel down the hall as he does. This looks like it should help. Thanks!!
Also, you are present but focused on your computer. Whereas before he could probably get your attention easier when you were home.
Thank you so much for including a flash warning! It very much helps to know to avoid looking at the screen
Epilepsy?
@@kitchenboy69 Not quite. Photosensitivity can cause many different responses. Thankfully my Photosensitivity issues are not seizure related, but migraine. Flashing lights or lots of color tend to give me migraines and trigger a lot of neurological issues (slurring speech, loss of coordination, inability to process thoughts)
@@tristanyoung7646 ahhhh ok. I understand. Migraines can be debilitating I'm sorry that you have to experience that. : /. Thanks for sharing!
I feel bad that most people ignore and think that rewarding your cat for bad behavior is good
hello Jackson ! can you please make a video about how is it ok or not to leave your cat alone when you're on holidays ? I've met several people who told me they just left their cat ( it's a cat ! they can survive like this! )alone with enough food/water, and how their cat behavior might have changed afterwards. It's maybe for 3 days but someone told me 3 weeks !!! i feel in my stomach that's not ok ! thanks for your videoooos, bisous from France !
I’ve heard Jackson tell us that it is not ok to leave your cat alone with a bowl of food and water. They might survive but their personalities will change and there will lose trust in you. I damaged their minds as well as your relationship with your pet. They need contact with humans
When my cat paws me for pats, I CAN NOT not pet her. Fortunately this is not a behavior that is particularly problematic to reward.
i saw in this video that the cat didn't step on the stove. How do we prevent a cat to go there? That's something that always scared me, because the lights are turned off, but it's still hot.
Hey Jackson, my cat has a bad behavior that she bites my hands when Im paying games on my computer at my desk. Im not sure how to ignore this behavior since it is hurting me and directly interfering with what Im doing
Love your videos Jackson!! Can you do a video about how to help a wallflower cat eat more than once a day? Any advice about wallflowers would be very helpful to me!
Nothing better than seeing a grown man wearing a kitty-bowed tee!!
My cat yells at me like that for pettings. We talk to eachother for like 15 minutes, where he "Talks me into it." And then I give him lots of love. We both enjoy the interaction. ❤
That sounds so adorable! ❤
I do that. I give my Cat what she is asking for... I cave in. I am played like a fiddle. This is me. lol.😁 When my cat use to wake me up at 4 am for food. I done that and ignored her. It stopped. But with the treat she wants. She keeps begging for all the time. I try to ignor her. I guess I need to work on that again. Ty Cat Daddy. Hmm. May have to get her a Puzzle Toy.
My biggest fear is definitely how my cat will handle me going to back to work! She is a covid kitten so she's never known a time that I wasn't with her practically 24/7. Also my bedroom is very small (the other areas of the house have rabbits and birds so she has to stay in my room unless I lock the others up and let her out) so I often feel guilty about that. :(
What are some other good ways to help her stay active while I'm gone?
If sis is anything like our girl cat, she'll play it cool and aloof, let her brother do all the hard work, then appear from nowhere to reap the rewards.
LOL 😹
Cats are smart! 😁
JG: "I'm judging you"
Also JG: "peace and love"
5-6 days...hahahahahahahahahahahahaha! try 14 years and counting. even had my persistent boy injure his paw trying to open a door
Funny how you say to reward Momo for silence and looking at you- my cat sits and stares at me when he wants something and it drives me crazy lol
Cats train us 😂 my senior cat meows when he wants food but i admit i give in more since he is my first senior pet since living on my own im also worried more easy about him
My cat does the same and it's usually because he wants food. Unfortunately I do give in sometimes because he starts attacking me, trying to get my arms or legs while I'm sitting down working or walking around. I haven't been able to figure out how to make things better with him.
Lol, I love it when my kitty plays attack. More so when she does it to my roommate though 😜
Maybee get an other cat my cat did that too he was just bored even though we played a lot it‘s just not the same most cats really don’t want to be the only cat ☺️ and two cats is really not twice the work just like 30% more 😅
My cat will bite me, sometimes to the point of drawing blood, if I don't give him treats on demand. He's supposed to be on a diet as he is slightly overweight. He is loving most of the time, but will also do this if he considers I'm on the phone too long and I've never been able to watch an entire film since I got him because he gets annoyed that I'm not paying him attention, so it usually takes at least 3 goes to watch a film. He has been checked multiple times for any health issues and is checked over, deflead and wormed every 3 months. I play with him, he can see out of the windows which have bird feeders in front of them and he has access to the garden whenever he wants.
Thank you for this great advice. But I am wondering if you could make a video about how to train cats/kittens to go on a leash, so they can go on hikes, and how to travel with them on a long car ride. Thank you!
I have the same question please Jackson!
Yeap guilty here, my kitty paws at me when I'm in the kitchen and I end up giving her treats...🤦 Everytime....
My dads dog does this, why the poor pup never stops barking and jumping. It's a terror. Bark + jump = treat. 😔
We are so well trained by our pets…even our tortoise knows how to get what he wants by being naughty. How sad is that? Two dogs, two cats, a chicken and a tortoise have our number🫤. Thank you for this wake-up call!
Yes my cat plays me like a fiddle every day. 😅🎻 She meows until I get up and follow her to the bathroom and pet her. Its so hard to ignore her though! I love getting kitty snuggles. Maybe its not really so bad to be owned by a cat?
My cat howls like this (usually a louder, more gutteral sound; she genuinely sounds hurt) about 3 times a day for about a minute. This is after being fed and played with. I have ignored it every single time since I brought her home over a month ago but she keeps doing it so I think it’s just her talking to me. It doesn’t really bother me because it’s such a short duration, at this point I think it’s just funny and pathetic. 😂
My sister felt the same way about, so called, feral cats. They allow you to feed them, then take them in. She thought they “planned” for your slow seduction.
my cat has me trained lol she has started not letting me carry her unless i bring her to her favorite window she cant reach on her own. If I bring her there she purrs and snuggles up to me, if i dont she jumps down and ignores me
My cat has a specific meowing to call my other cat when he wants to play. He trained the other cat to come play when he does the special meow hahaha 🤣
Jackson, I've been watching you for years now. (On tv, not as a stalker, I don't have the kind of disposable income that would require). I've implemented your advice with every kitty I have lived with and I don't know how I would have coped with the 8years of sharing my life with a LARGE bengal cat named Pippin, if it wasn't for you and your advice. I've been seriously considering looking into a career in cat behavior/cat phycology, something like that. Any tips?
I find that cats are the most enjoyable when they are trying to control me. It adds a higher level to our interactions, along with play, feedings, and our other routines.
We have treat times at my house. 3x a day. She likes them placed in certain places and I add a You find/work for It! I change it up
Worrying about my younger cat's squeaking/barking has led to him doing it more consistently. Now that I know that he's okay (just bored and wanting to play or go outside), it's okay to let him be. Unfortunately, I'm still trying to reinforce the talking buttons I have so........
At the end of the video, "please subscribe" section...
*_Jackson literally just MEOWED for our attention_*
When my cat gets bored and start randomly meowing, I'll shout "hi, Eliza". Within seconds, she'll appear from wherever she was, look at me, and then jump on my stomach and insist I pet her. Either I trained her to come up to me when she's bored, or she trained me to pet her when she meows.
Cats are good at that... my indoor/outdoor cat Sebastian was being a dick to his (also indoor/outdoor) non-biological brother Misty a while back so we put him back outside in hopes of discouraging that behavior. And then it happened again. And again. Pretty soon, we realized he was picking on Misty when he wanted to go back outside :/
this is definitely my siamese cat. he demands constant attention and will spill his water and food all over the floor just to get me off the couch.. i’m definitely going to just start ignoring him until he gets the hint that he cannot boss me around.
Try heavy bowls and/or put them away as soon as hes finished (or as soon as he tips them over), and ignore the surrounding behaviour
Shoot...similar to my cat’s problems....thank you Jackson🥺you are my savior!
ahhh yes.. love.. love.. love..! your guidence is always educational and so appreciated!
Mmmmm.... both of my cats do that sometimes, I mean the yoddling sessions, but they don't get anything from me for that... they still do
OMG this video is perfect for me. We have two CH cats and the girl just meows incessantly sometimes. They are both fixed since 3 months old. She has done it less ever since we stopped doing things that reinforced the behavior, and made sure to include more structured/scheduled play times.
Dog Trainer Here, Great advice, great example, very easy to follow and informative. My favorite part was when you stressed on the Reinforcing for a separate behavior.
Ugh - guilty as charged! My 10 week old kitten, Mikey, is obsessed with playing in, and climbing my curtains! Every time he is in (or ON) them I pick him and and walk around with him for a few minutes. Most of the time this calms him down from what I like to call "monster mode" where he is doing everything he can to burn off every last shred of energy that he has in his tiny little body. So this a HUUUUGE THANK YOU from me to you for showing me the error of my ways. Now I either distract him with something else, or I simply relocate him to a more appropriate part of the house. :)
Ok so I’m trying out this advice right now🙈 I always thought my cat is in a desperate need of play when she does this and that I’m a bad neglecting parent if I don’t play right away coz then she’ll be depressed🙈 she doesn’t like treats (not even liquid ones!) so food is not the issue. How much is ok to let her be ”bored”? I suffer from ME/CFS and can’t always get up to play when she starts meeeeoooow and scratching😰
Yeah, they know when they have a fiddle in the house! My mom couldn't understand why our cats started becoming "annoying". Then we realised it started when she retired... i don't give in easily when they want something (which, funnily enough, annoys my mom) and she does... Of course they'd be more annoying now that she's home all the time! It took me some time to make her understand that the male only annoyed her in the middle of the night when he wanted something was because she got up and I pretended not to when he tried, and he gave up on me! (or I didn't hear him, I have a rather deep sleep) "Weirdly" enough, when she finally stopped getting up for him, he stopped!
I don't know if you've ever done a video about cats that don't eat unless their human is present. I don't think there are that many of cats like this but I've heard about it before. My cat is one of them unfortunately. She needs someone to watch her eating. Plus her pancreas is chronically bad and she doesn't feel hunger like healthy cats do. When she's home alone she just doesn't eat, and once I'm finally back home she hasn't been eating long enough for it to make her sick. I'm going back to work next week, and I'm so anxious about how she'll manage this that I can't even sleep at night :-/ Guess we're both gonna have separation anxiety.
She calls that bad behavior??? LOOOOOOL!!! I have a devil! Literally! It breaks everything, jumps on on everything and has 6 hour long zoomies!! Never cuddles and hates being picked up and touched. Try fixing that xD
Ahaaha I LIVE for these videos. Thank you, @JacksonGalaxy! Cat Daddy. ❤
Hey Jackson. Any tips for a 6 month old kitten who refuses to use a litter box? I have a ton of boxes of various sizes all around the house. Thanks!
I’m losing my mind!! I have 2 cats, 12 months and 14 months old, and the older one it’s a bully 🥺😵💫 how can I make him stop being so hard on my other cat? HELP!!! 😭😭
9:38 I have this exact puzzle toy for my cat Sherlock. I feed his dry food in there all the time so he doesn’t snarf and barf. 10/10.
Yes you are right we are just violins on cats hands lol 😂 my cats scratch my kids doors at 6 am when they wants me to let them out! Not mine but my children one because they know I'll hurry not to wake the kids up!!
😆 love your cartoons within your videos😂 ....and I'm definitely being trained by my Korat as well😒
Okay... But I don't ever feed my cats outside of meal times and nail clippings. So why is my cat doing this except *way* louder, sadder, and more echoey? And before I was working from home all day?
Oh yeah, and he scratches at cabinets that don't contain any food whatsoever, human or feline. He's constantly trying to get into kitchen cupboards that contain nothing but pots, pans, tupperware, etc.
Riddle me THAT, Jackson!
My cat "Trained" Me, but, I Untrained myself! No means No, eat your food or I Play, play, play with her!
My flatmate has two adorable cats called "Einstein" and "Sodom" and the latter one did this while walking around or going to a different floor in the flat. What seemed to help us was due to him not really loving being picked up, just starting picking him up every time he did this and after a while he stopped, because he seemed to associate this kind of meowing with being picked up which he did not want. In the end he just seemed to find it a little annoying, and just wanted to go down again, so that seemed like good way to get him to stop.
He shortly after developed a better way of communicating with us and usually just meowed similarily just once to annoumce himself before looking for us to get a short cuddle session and then chilling somewhere for the next hours. And he learned our sleep schedules so he usually did that before we went to sleep with someone who was still awake, without waking up anyone, got his good night snuggles and let us sleep the whole night.
And whats interesting is that when beforehand he tried during his more annoying phase to get us to open out dors by just meowing for several minutes, he just tries it like one or two times and either comes in for a short cuddle when we let him, or otherwise just goes and does something else.
oh. I feel called out. My girl cat does this every night and every morning looking for us to play. She makes these crazy sounds and eventually I get sick of it and I get out of bed to play with her (even at 5:45am). Oh my. I'm the problem, lol.
Jackson, how do I befriend an older female calico cat named “Callie.” She’s 12 years old. She avoids me and I tried everything. Callie once belonged to my mother, but she died last August.