Training misbehaving cats

[WaltonSimons]

You mean spanking? Nope, doesn't work on cats at all. I speak from experience. They are not dogs. Dogs treat a light spank as punishment and will usually refrain from bringing it onto them again but cats will treat it as hostility and will become more untamed, wilder and feral.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Originally Posted by WaltonSimons

You mean spanking? Nope, doesn't work on cats at all. I speak from experience. They are not dogs. Dogs treat a light spank as punishment and will usually refrain from bringing it onto them again but cats will treat it as hostility and will become more untamed, wilder and feral.

Exactly!

Perhaps, spraying some water on them (cats like cleaning themselves, most hate water and bathing) might help but not necessarily. Make sure that you do it fast, right after they've been bad, so that they can mentally link the two together: acting bad causes punishment. Otherwise, they will think that you don't like them at all.

Raising your voice can serve as a training. As I wrote, they know exactly what they're doing, you don't have to remind them ; it is important that you have to show that you also know what they're doing and you don't like it. Like with children, raised voice as a warning before they act bad may be able to stop them but not always.