How to train a cat

Do you want your cat to understand some basic concepts of coexistence? Going to your call, do your needs in the sand or not scratch are some rules that you can instill in your cat with a little patience and some specific tricks. Although they are more complicated than dogs, cats can also learn concepts and associate some orders or calls and in this article we tell you how to train a cat so you know how to achieve it.

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Before starting to indicate specific aspects in the training of a cat, we will indicate a series of general tips that you can apply in any teaching you want to give your pet.

• Reward positively when your cat has performed an action well. In the first moments of training it is important that you always reinforce it but, later, with more adult age you can be rewarded interspersed. Use your favorite food or a candy for cats to reward you.

• Help yourself with a specific sound, for example a bell or a clicker are highly recommended since the animal will associate that sound with a reward and, therefore, it will do what you have taught it.

• Before any order it is important that you say your cat's name . So that he is clear about what he is, you must also pronounce him when you caress him, when you hug him or when you play with him; You must be clear that that is his name and when you pronounce it you are addressing him.

• When you want to train your cat eliminates any external distraction such as television, music, and so on. Dedicate that time only to him and, thus, he will know that you are one hundred percent directing yourself to him; otherwise, you can not associate that you are all the time pending of him and the session will not have much effect.

• Always use the same way to train your pet: the same orders, rewards and sounds. In this way, you will understand much better what you are transmitting and learning will be faster (for example, if you use the word "No" that is always that, if you use a clicker then do not use bell etc.).

• You have to have the patience to train a cat but also not harass, the ideal is to devote daily 10 to 15 minutes in his teaching: no longer because the animal will tire and eventually leave or get angry.

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Cats are animals that tend to hide in the most remote places of the house that is why a good teaching is to learn to come when you call . For that you will have to use his name and, to get used to him, you will have to go repeating it every time you have the chance: when you play with him, when you caress him, and so on.

As soon as you recognize his name, when you call him, he will come to the call; if you see that you can not get it you can make it come using the noise of the package of your food pronouncing its name, as soon as it appears by the door give a prize and remember its name.

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Teaching a cat to use sand to relieve himself is not as difficult as it seems. To get used to it you can accompany him to where the tray is a couple of times a day and, if they do their needs there, reward him. If you see that you do not finish getting used to it and that you always do your things in a specific place in the house, take the sand tray there so that it can be associated with your hygiene.

If you have the habit of peeing in an area of ​​the house where you do not want to put your sand, for example in the middle of the dining room, you can chase it away by putting pieces of aluminum foil on the floor, the cats do not like this touch. Keep in mind that if you have put the food near the sand tray, it is likely that the cat does not want to use it because it is too close, try to move it away or change the room.

In this article we give you more tricks to teach a cat to use the sandbox.

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Teach him not to eat the plants . If you have a sure cat that sometimes one of the plants of your house appear with bites or scratches, this is because cats use them to purge but you must be careful because some of these plants are toxic to cats. To train him, you will have to give him the order of "No" from very early; it must be a concise and strong order for the animal to understand; Without or it is enough, you can spray it with a spray of water on the body so that you understand that you should not approach the plants.

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The furniture is another of the hobbies of cats and people with these pets usually have some furniture scratched and marked with their paws. But you can teach a cat not to scratch the furniture of the house by buying a scraper ; keep in mind, that the instincts of this animal make him scratch his nails with trunks of trees for that reason, buying a fixed scraper and whose touch resembles the bark of a tree is ideal for cats.

To ensure that you do not scratch the furniture you must put the scraper in a visible and accessible area for it; At the beginning you can attract the animal to this utensil with treats, toys or caresses to associate it with a pleasant and pleasant place. You can also spray the space with a spray of pheromones (in a veterinary shop you can get it). In this article we show you more tricks to make sure that a cat does not scratch furniture.

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Cats also tend to occupy your bed at night and leave that bed you bought for them. To make your cat sleep in your bed you have to prohibit the animal to sleep in yours, so when it's time to sleep, close the door so that it does not enter or sneak into your room, even if it goes through a long time, You give in to your requests because you'll get away with it. To understand where you should sleep, accompany him every night to his bed and then go to yours by closing the door of the room, so you will understand what you want.

The cat's bed should be in a fixed and fixed space, you should not move it because then it will not be associated as a resting place but rather as a toy. For the place to become pleasant you can spray it with pheromones or caress and pamper it before you go to sleep, so it will relax and get sleep.