I hissed at him mostly when I first got him as a foster home. He had lots of bad habits since he lived on the streets for so long. He broke those habits quickly and we have been a “hissless” home since. Sometimes we understood one another without words - he kept peeing behind a wall on the floor, I put the litterbox there and he knew what to do next.

He was so spooked initially he didn’t eat for a month and hid under the sofa. What got him out was me watching a female cat that was peeking out of her carrier and meowing at the camera (almost playing peekaboo). Though to be fair, he was exploring at night - I caught him doing it next morning when I saw pawprints on a dusty shelf, like 10cm away from my head when I was sleeping. He just didn’t eat anything (wetfood, egg yolk, dry food) which is scary when a cat does that, they need to eat each day or they get liver issues. Pheromones weren’t working. Vet said he needs exposure therapy which meant back to a cage with him. Spent hours sitting next to him watching either bird videos or some series / cartoons I was watching at the time. He still runs at the slightest rustle but he has chilled out immensly, became a complete and utter lapcat, and knows how to use voice buttons to say what he needs. My latest trick with him is asking him to turn off the lights. There are two outcomes, either he goes and turns them off, or he gets up, presses the “no” button and goes back to sleep / whatever he was doing. Both outcomes are hilarious obviously

That version is less funny

I’ve hissed at him enough times that he knows how I hiss. Usually he scrambles and removes himself from the situation pretty quickly. The soda thing, coughs etc is more like “ugh fuck this” slowly getting up, look of disdain and moving somewhere else. Note that “somewhere else” is often a change from “in front of the keyboard” to “onto the chair that’s next to me”. I’d wager that it is more about the sparkly bit / bubbles making noise, than the hiss of the can.

All animals have living tissue in their nails / claws / talons, birds, dogs, cats, etc. Trimming their nails is completely normal and part of a routine that keeps them healthy. Otherwise you run the risk of talons curving and going into the foot of a bird for instance. For cats, they can grow these huge dead nails in their rear legs for instance, they usually try to bite them off. Cutting the tip helps them peel off and get rid of those.

That’s why declawing is not only inhumane, it is 100% stupid - you can achieve the exact same “result” - your cat not being able to damage furniture - by providing them with a scratching post and regularly cutting their nails - without maiming your pet. There are more alternatives to declawing, like silicone covers for their claws too. The people who go for it are literally the worst.

Not really a problem often. Cats with light fur tend to have white nails and you can see the quick (the living part of the nail) really easily. There are also methods on how to cut the nail properly, with correct angles and specialized scissors. Even with dark-coloured claws, it isn’t hard to avoid it. Simply trimming the extremely sharp hook end is enough, you don’t need to cut half their claw off.

Declawing means removing a digit in a cats’ paw. It is a completely different process to what I’m describing here and is a horrific thing to do to a cat, basically maiming it in the process. It should only be done as last resort in illness to save a cats life, not to prevent it from scratching. It is basically the difference between cutting your nails so they are short, and cutting the end of your fingers so there is no nail to cut.

My cat doesn’t tolerate sodas being opened next to him, sneezes and coughs. For some reason it’s completely unacceptable even if I turn away from him while doing it.

Cut their claws, I taught my adult cat that me touching his paws is okay and that sometimes he gets a trim. We can now “spar” all the time because he just doesn’t have sharp points to claw me with. He can make biscuits on me all he wants, jump on me, off me etc.

Mine jumps at the keys in the door when he gets the zoomies. Apparently he reaches the higher lock, that’s where I have a small mascot dangling and I found it on the floor a couple of times already.

They ekekekek if they want to hunt or to grab your attention / attention of other cats for the hunt. I run around with a bug zapper paddle and hunt with my cat. I see a moth, I ekekek at him and he comes in running, grabs the thing and eats it. Sometimes he ekekeks at me and I grab the paddle and launch a serve at a fly. Gets him off my back for playtime, since playtime is basically simulating a hunt, and he goes to eat and sleep shortly after.

There is also a trick I used to do - fill the food bowl with water (wetfood only). The cat plucked it out of the water and then drank the water. They take in most of their water from drinking blood / when eating. Also important to feed them internal organs - chicken hearts, livers, etc.

Never give cats milk, it’s bad for them.

Mine picked up on my name quickly. Then I trained him to use buttons and he correctly can understand that the button for my name means he wants my attention / denotes ownership of something. I.e “<catname> food” and “<myname> food” which means he leaves it alone. Often says shit like “<catname> <myname> lets play” or “<myname> pets <catname>”.

Dry food is bad for a cat’s kidneys. Wet food only is the best diet for them, but people don’t like the smell, the mess or the hassle. Leaving out food 24/7 for most cats tends to make them obese.

Yea and giving dry food and especially leaving it out for the cat for the entire day is bad for it.

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Yeah you’re just proving the point more and more.

You also made a post online about it to complain. That’s a lot of notches.

Yes it is so show your proof or gtfo and I’ll assume you don’t have anything other than wishful thinking

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. If it is so easy, instead of writing 15 comments you could’ve shown it. So do it or you are a weak ass troll and nothing more.

Nope. Mine lays on the other pillow at eye level, his back to me, and then tilts his head up so he can look at me.