Alexey

Cats learn ONLY and ONLY in this way: they must be punished DURING committing a crime. They caught him with a wire in his mouth, while the wire in his mouth and you puffed and cursed loudly on the cat, you can even hit hard (not on the head, or even the injury can get) - everything, consider that it's the most wire in life ever touches. But if they were late at least for 2 seconds, he already released the wire and went away, everything is useless. He simply does not understand. I do not understand the people who say: neee, he understands everything. Yes, he does not understand! A person has thoughts in his brain and thousands of convolutions. A cat has not a single thought and a pair of convolutions. So it is with the toilet - while sitting, making a puddle in the sneakers - sharply loudly sizzled - everything, consider to have disaccustomed. But as soon as the horror is done, everything! already useless. The more offensive for the cat, if he sincerely does not understand for what, and you are his muzzle in a puddle. He will remember and be angry with you. The next time, knowing that you are angry after that, he will deliberately sit in the sneakers. About punishment - the same with the headset. Cats are afraid of sharp and loud sounds. Sizzles are perceived as a threat. Why do not you beat the cat. First, they perceive a person's hand as a huge paw. And they sincerely do not understand how it's possible: just this paw beat me, but it's already getting to my head (this you try to pat). Your hand should associate the cat with the good and not bear the threat. By the way, to achieve the desired action from the cat can be the same, only by encouraging the accomplishment of the desired action. For example, my cat grinds its claws on the claw, does not touch the wallpaper. Why? but because I taught her that when she sharpens her claws on a claw - I get her a piece of food when she's shaking, she gets it.

Honestly, I, for one, do not support the washing of cats. Yes, and our advice was advised not to get carried away by this - in general they can not be washed, because cats take great care of themselves in this regard themselves. But one time I got carried away by it. All seemed to me, that not so from them smells, etc. Even once, when the senior cat (and I have two of them) was small, I atoned for it and dried it badly. The bottom line is a cold, causing a vet at home and treatment. :( The cat was all in the snot, and since then I've been thinking about the advisability of washing and try not to pay much attention to the apparent smells, my younger one only when, if I'm going to the exhibition, it's inevitable. "Of course, it's nice when the cat smells pleasant fragrances, but it's such a beautiful thing for him, but this stress for him - this washing and hairstyle before the show, I can not tell you! The horror is simple. It's a pity it's done this way! He's got me, unlike the eldest, well, That's why I made a decision, if I do not go to I will not wash it, I will not wash it very much, he even does not tolerate this procedure very well, and even the oldest cat, even if it is not a non-staged cat, does not like to wash. Everything was going after a country holiday (and he rested, the senior kotyara, there almost 3 months!) to wash it, t ... an amateur to lie down on the grass or .... on the dirty ground! "8-0 But the hand did not rise to wash it, I see that the skin is clean, washing constantly, though not as carefully as the younger one, I think, not I will not wash. My opinion is that it is not necessary to wash kotei without need (dirt, smearing in something, etc.). And it's up to you, of course!