Training Cat?

Champ

Hi;
My cat seems to like jumping up onto my chair. Let be more specific.
Any chair that i try to sit on when using my PC; the cat keeps jumping onto it. Not to sit on my lap on anything; but just to jump on and sit; lie down etc...This only happens when i try to use my PC! :rolleyes:

Tried swapping chairs (letting him have the chair!); luring him away with food; but he's very persistent if not stubborn :rolleyes: No matter what pose i take he always finds a way (also with claws if need be!)

Anyone any ideas on how to train him to stay down?

MadsL

Keep a waterpistol next to the PC. Everytime the cat jumps on your PC chair, spray him on the nose. try not to let him know it was you (hide the waterpistol afterwards!)
Works for scratching (sharpening claws) on furniture.

Try not to hit the PC!

Champ

Sounds like the gentliest approach; i'll give it a go. :cool:

Falkorre

we have two kitties who love to do this.
First thing we did that works some of the time with one of them, is to give them a "Co-Pilots" seat beside our chair, has to be right beside it tho.

Other thing if u dont want them near the area is orange or lemon peel, scent, they hate it.
A GREAT training aid when it comes to cats is a human spray for pulled muscles called RALGEX, they HATE it, they wont go near where it has been sprayed, you may have to do it over a few days but it works 100%.
That stuff has saved our antique couch an loadsa other furniture.

Cats have a natural propensity to want to be directly in ur attention field, that means if ur reading they wanna sit on the book, in front of the monitor etc, one of ours is so bad that he insists on sitting on the control panel of my elec wheelchair if he thinks my hand it giving it energy that could go into petting him lololol

ya gotta love em

b

Nala

Originally posted by Falkorre
give them a "Co-Pilots" seat beside our chair, has to be right beside it tho.

Too true! My cat Phoebe sits on the chair beside mine while I'm on the net and watches everything I'm doing. She's fascinated with watching the mouse move around the screen as well.

Originally posted by Falkorre
Cats have a natural propensity to want to be directly in ur attention field, that means if ur reading they wanna sit on the book, in front of the monitor etc, one of ours is so bad that he insists on sitting on the control panel of my elec wheelchair if he thinks my hand it giving it energy that could go into petting him lololol

ya gotta love em

b

Yeah my cats always insist on lying on my magazines as I am trying to read. My budgie is the same but worse. When he sees me using my mobile he flies over and sits on it and starts pecking it.

Twistedlilkitty

to stop cats jumping up on chair.....
...remove legs of said cat....

if you don't want to do that, the orange peel thing works well, or even essential oil of orange...

but dont use a terrys chocolate orange, they melt when you sit on them.

Champ

Well waterpistol worked nicely. Very persistent; after a few minutes of watching me from the floor he tries again.

First thing we did that works some of the time with one of them, is to give them a "Co-Pilots" seat beside our chair, has to be right beside it tho.

Well; with that technique he just jumps from that chair to the other one. I tried even giving him the main seat; and me taking the secondary one (yes rather uncomfortable after a while).. though he just seems determined to get onto the chair i'm using :rolleyes:

Cats; gotta love em

luckat

Or you could try training them to sit somewhere you actually *want* them to sit. Let's say they sit on the table a few feet away - throw a little bit of frankfurter to them when you see them sitting there, but *never* give them any anywhere else. Soon it'll become a preferred perching place.