bigbadbarry wrote:
Mary wrote:

If you don't want to be seen as a goddamned cretin, don't post like one.
Once you choose to post like one, do not backpedal when the tide goes
against you.

Once again: you are either stupid or careless.

Nothing personal, but I don't have time for this.

You guys are the ones who assigned the term violence to a swat. Not me!
So, that's your baby, you rock it. Leave me out of it.

You assigned the most haneous terms and buzz words you could find to
the word swat.

slap, hit, violence, "isnt there enough pain in the world"

If you are really this blind, I feel bad for ya's

Hitting is hitting. How hard you're hitting them is incidental. I
realize this is not about children, but hitting children simply teaches
them one thing: You're bigger than they are and you can hurt them. I
never hit mine.
But back to cats. Hitting makes cats fear you. I don't think "respect"
comes into the picture, regarding cat behavior. But TRUST does, and
hitting a cat, no matter how hard, erodes trust.
That's just my personal opinion. I[m not a behaviorist, and don't
pretend or claim to be one. I never hit my cats, either. I clap my
hands and yell "no." They have pretty decent housecat manners, don't
bite or scratch, and haven't ever really clawed inappropriately.
Another thing, and this is what Bootsie gets for jumping on the other
cats; is to pick her up and put her in the bathroom for about 2-5
minutes. You can laugh about "time out for cats" if you want to, but if
you're repetitive enough, it does work. It also gives her time to calm
herself down. She is somewhat high-strung and aggressive by nature and
the others are very laid-back.

Sherry