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Soft Paws
Or people who just leave tehir pets outside the whole time and just feed
it. Makes me wonder why they even have a pet. Alice That is quite common here. People will feed roaming animals, treat them if they need medical care, but they will not take the animal in, they don't consider it their animal. |
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Or people who just leave tehir pets outside the whole time and just feed
it. Makes me wonder why they even have a pet. Alice That is quite common here. People will feed roaming animals, treat them if they need medical care, but they will not take the animal in, they don't consider it their animal. |
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In rec.pets.cats.health+behav Tara wrote:
This, IMO, is more the equivalent of asking how to go about dealing with a dog who is particularly hard to housebreak. Some dogs housebreak easily, some are incredibly difficult. Just because someone is having a harder time with theirs than you had with yours doesn't make them lazy, nor does it make them unconcerned. Once agian, I was responding to who I quoted to... And anyways, when I said that I had more in mind people getting dogs and then wondering why they were chewing things up, or wanting to stick the dog in a crate for 8 hours! Or buying dogs without doing any sort of research on the breed they get or even on how to care for the dog! (or cat). Or just getting whatever pet they can get first or if it looks cool with no regard to whether they can care for the pet or if they are even supporting thigns like puppy mills. I hope she never gets another pet of *any* kind. But these examples and your subsequent labeling of *all* people experiencing difficulty is pretty misplaced. You're defining anyone who asks how to resolve an issue as though they were the above extreme examples....and they're just not the same. No, I'm just pointing out examples of why I have such a low opinion of most people in general. I just feel that at least 50% of people with pets treat them like throwaway objects. As I have said, i wasn't using this to direct this at any person on this thread, the commetn the person I quoted made me feel like ranting on something that has been bothering me. If it makes you feel better I applaud people who actually look liek they are generally interested in learning how to train their pets and get along with them. But I find they are far too few. A lot just want magical cures (like wanting barking collars to cure their dogs barking without having to work witht he dog themselves). Alice -- The root cause of problems is simple overpopulation. People just aren't worth very much any more, and they know it. Makes 'em testy. ...Bev |\ _,,,---,,_ Tigress /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ http://havoc.gtf.gatech.edu/tigress |,4- ) )-,_..;\ ( `'-' '---''(_/--' `-'\_) Cat by Felix Lee. |
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In rec.pets.cats.health+behav Tara wrote:
This, IMO, is more the equivalent of asking how to go about dealing with a dog who is particularly hard to housebreak. Some dogs housebreak easily, some are incredibly difficult. Just because someone is having a harder time with theirs than you had with yours doesn't make them lazy, nor does it make them unconcerned. Once agian, I was responding to who I quoted to... And anyways, when I said that I had more in mind people getting dogs and then wondering why they were chewing things up, or wanting to stick the dog in a crate for 8 hours! Or buying dogs without doing any sort of research on the breed they get or even on how to care for the dog! (or cat). Or just getting whatever pet they can get first or if it looks cool with no regard to whether they can care for the pet or if they are even supporting thigns like puppy mills. I hope she never gets another pet of *any* kind. But these examples and your subsequent labeling of *all* people experiencing difficulty is pretty misplaced. You're defining anyone who asks how to resolve an issue as though they were the above extreme examples....and they're just not the same. No, I'm just pointing out examples of why I have such a low opinion of most people in general. I just feel that at least 50% of people with pets treat them like throwaway objects. As I have said, i wasn't using this to direct this at any person on this thread, the commetn the person I quoted made me feel like ranting on something that has been bothering me. If it makes you feel better I applaud people who actually look liek they are generally interested in learning how to train their pets and get along with them. But I find they are far too few. A lot just want magical cures (like wanting barking collars to cure their dogs barking without having to work witht he dog themselves). Alice -- The root cause of problems is simple overpopulation. People just aren't worth very much any more, and they know it. Makes 'em testy. ...Bev |\ _,,,---,,_ Tigress /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ http://havoc.gtf.gatech.edu/tigress |,4- ) )-,_..;\ ( `'-' '---''(_/--' `-'\_) Cat by Felix Lee. |
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In rec.pets.cats.health+behav Liz wrote:
Or people who just leave tehir pets outside the whole time and just feed it. Makes me wonder why they even have a pet. Alice That is quite common here. People will feed roaming animals, treat them if they need medical care, but they will not take the animal in, they don't consider it their animal. That doesn't bug me so much. What bugs me is stuff like this guy who was buying a chain for his dog. I mentioned that it is better for the dog to fence the dog than chain it, and he was like, "I don't give a **** how the dog feels, I just want to stop him escaping." And apparently he just left his dog outside the whole time and didn't do much with it, I suppose it wast here as some sort of burglarly prevention (I wish people like this would just buy a house alarm). Or the view of, "it's just a cat" or "it's just a dog" and I]'m not going through all that trouble/money for it (for pets that didn't just start hanging out at their house). Alice -- The root cause of problems is simple overpopulation. People just aren't worth very much any more, and they know it. Makes 'em testy. ...Bev |\ _,,,---,,_ Tigress /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ http://havoc.gtf.gatech.edu/tigress |,4- ) )-,_..;\ ( `'-' '---''(_/--' `-'\_) Cat by Felix Lee. |
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In rec.pets.cats.health+behav Liz wrote:
Or people who just leave tehir pets outside the whole time and just feed it. Makes me wonder why they even have a pet. Alice That is quite common here. People will feed roaming animals, treat them if they need medical care, but they will not take the animal in, they don't consider it their animal. That doesn't bug me so much. What bugs me is stuff like this guy who was buying a chain for his dog. I mentioned that it is better for the dog to fence the dog than chain it, and he was like, "I don't give a **** how the dog feels, I just want to stop him escaping." And apparently he just left his dog outside the whole time and didn't do much with it, I suppose it wast here as some sort of burglarly prevention (I wish people like this would just buy a house alarm). Or the view of, "it's just a cat" or "it's just a dog" and I]'m not going through all that trouble/money for it (for pets that didn't just start hanging out at their house). Alice -- The root cause of problems is simple overpopulation. People just aren't worth very much any more, and they know it. Makes 'em testy. ...Bev |\ _,,,---,,_ Tigress /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ http://havoc.gtf.gatech.edu/tigress |,4- ) )-,_..;\ ( `'-' '---''(_/--' `-'\_) Cat by Felix Lee. |
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"Joe" wrote in message ... "P.D." wrote: I tried to train my cats, and they are just stubborn, Cats need to use their claws. Lean a carpet wrapped 2x4 against something and put their dry food at the top of the climb. Let them know the food is up there. Then you have solved the stubborn problem, they have to eat. Conceivably, there is a point at which the climb can be made long enough so that they will be too tired to scratch anything else. In any case, the perpetual climbing constantly reminds them that the carpet wrapped 2x4s are great for scratching. My cats quickly figure out they are for scratching, really sinking their claws into, and having fun. You might have to adjust for a weaker cat. Good luck. Out. LShaping that's a brilliant idea, good thinking :-) |
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"Joe" wrote in message ... "P.D." wrote: I tried to train my cats, and they are just stubborn, Cats need to use their claws. Lean a carpet wrapped 2x4 against something and put their dry food at the top of the climb. Let them know the food is up there. Then you have solved the stubborn problem, they have to eat. Conceivably, there is a point at which the climb can be made long enough so that they will be too tired to scratch anything else. In any case, the perpetual climbing constantly reminds them that the carpet wrapped 2x4s are great for scratching. My cats quickly figure out they are for scratching, really sinking their claws into, and having fun. You might have to adjust for a weaker cat. Good luck. Out. LShaping that's a brilliant idea, good thinking :-) |
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"P.D." wrote in message . net... are you brain dead? I said I tried training, I spend a lot of time trying, my cats just don't respond to it. excuse me if you go back to the first posting of soft post it say copy and pasted After reading about declawing, I decided not to do it. I wanted to know if anyone here uses "Soft Paws"? Are they hard to apply? Do they really work? Cats don't get them off by scratching them allot of scratching posts or anything? thanks -- -- Steve its doesn't say anything there about you had tried training already, hence my reply! |
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"P.D." wrote in message . net... are you brain dead? I said I tried training, I spend a lot of time trying, my cats just don't respond to it. excuse me if you go back to the first posting of soft post it say copy and pasted After reading about declawing, I decided not to do it. I wanted to know if anyone here uses "Soft Paws"? Are they hard to apply? Do they really work? Cats don't get them off by scratching them allot of scratching posts or anything? thanks -- -- Steve its doesn't say anything there about you had tried training already, hence my reply! |
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