They're still neater than cats, though. With cats, you either step on the mouse that's dead from closed head injuries as you make your morning coffee. Or, you wake up to find prime mouse cuts next to your head on the pillow. It's always nice when they share.
I don't get why cat owners don't close cats outside the bedroom when they sleep, and train the cats to get used to it. Most bad cat stories I hear seem like they could be fixed by this.
Well, most of the time it just isn't a problem. Plus, cats aren't boundary oriented. Our current batch of cats get super worried when a door separates them from us. They once crashed in the bathroom door to save Michelle from the bath. They're just that loyal. The boundary I enforce is the door to the outside. I try to observe when my indoors/outdoors cats come and go and intercept them with whatever wiggling thing they have in their mouths. Really, though, I don't have many behavioral problems with my cats.
Ha, I guess not. I am moreso than with dogs. I had a cat once. But never one that was actually my responsibility to take care of, and never one that had any designs on misbehaving (or bothering anyone while sleeping) at all.
But seriously, what would happen if you just never let a cat into your bedroom from the time you got it? Would it just never get the hint?
When I first got my cat, I did try to keep him out of the bedroom. He just wasn't having any of that though. He would scratch and scratch at the door until he could get it open. (it didn't have a latch on the inside)
He just HAD TO BE in the room I was in.
It's easier to train a cat to keep away from smaller areas like countertops or tables because there's usually not a pressing need in his mind to visit those places. But I've seen my cat who KNOWS not to jump on the counter do it anyway when the noise of crows on the roof carries through the vent. He hears the birds and is so overcome that he forgets he's not allowed there.
Yeah. I was a bit wary when the exterminator left snap traps. But when a previous exterminator at a previous home left glue traps, I threw them all out immediately. I would not be able to handle that at all. I'm already going to feel guilty for a week about this poor mouse that I didn't have to watch or help die...
Yeah, I've sworn off of glue traps -- if it helps, the snap traps are fast, and I've never had one go bloody. You may have (relatively...) better luck next time.
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I don't get why cat owners don't close cats outside the bedroom when they sleep, and train the cats to get used to it. Most bad cat stories I hear seem like they could be fixed by this.
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You obviously aren't familiar with felines.
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But seriously, what would happen if you just never let a cat into your bedroom from the time you got it? Would it just never get the hint?
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He just HAD TO BE in the room I was in.
It's easier to train a cat to keep away from smaller areas like countertops or tables because there's usually not a pressing need in his mind to visit those places. But I've seen my cat who KNOWS not to jump on the counter do it anyway when the noise of crows on the roof carries through the vent. He hears the birds and is so overcome that he forgets he's not allowed there.
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