How To Avoid Cat Training Problems

Teaching kitties is a bit more difficult as compared to teaching dogs. There are a handful of training problems that you will encounter while trying to teach your cat. Cats get distracted more easily and may take a longer time to teach. These facts make cat training more rewarding and fulfilling once you see improvement in the cats behavior and once you overcome some cat training problems.

Cats are fun loving by nature and will always try to play with the people and the objects around them. This is usually one of the biggest cat training problems around. Kitties are very easily distracted and will change from one task to another in an instant. When trying to train a cat, be sure that you are in an area free from distraction. You can select an area in your house to train the kittens and clear it from possible distractions. The area should also be different from where the pet eats or where the litter box is located. Hide the toys in the area and ask people to stay away from the area as much as possible. This will hopefully lessen the cat training problems that you will be experiencing.

Kittens and children may not always get along. This is another cat training problem that you will have to deal with if you have kids in the house. When you plan to teach your kitten a new command or a new trick you have to try and make your children stay away from the cat's sight. Cats will usually scratch children without the intention of doing so. You also have to slowly introduce the cats and the children to each other.

For the first couple of days or week, supervise their interaction until you are confident enough that the pets and the children will not hurt each other. Remind the kids that pulling the tails of the cats and squeezing them will make the pet angry. When the children and the cats already get along then you can proceed with training the cat because you have overcome another cat training problem.
Another cat teaching problem you might face is disobedience when other cats are around. If you have more than one cat at home, make sure to train them all separately. When cats are with each other, they tend to not listen to commands.

You can let them interact after the 10 to 15 minutes of training a day is over.

These are just some of the teaching problems that you may experience but once you overcome them you will be able to deal with your cats with more ease and confidence.

As a pet lover and someone who devoted his life to animals I consider myself an expert trainer and the one person you can go to when needing advise with regards to your cats.