As a cat-educate

Cats are very independent animals and they are very intelligent, but difficult to learn something in what not draw any benefit. This is by nature, cats and felines in general, are solitary hunters who have no instinct to group, so you do not have in your character should be before orders of others.

Why educate or teach things to a dog than a cat, since the cat will learn few things that are not for a profit is not the same.

Not learn tricks like dogs, to do so does not mean that they can not educate to make the best possible coexistence of the cat in the House.

How educating a cat

-Needs. Cats don't need to teach them to make them if their own needs in a sandpit. If we provide it, they themselves will seek to make their needs and rarely make it out of the. Maybe that small with incontinence problems and do your needs where caught him, but this is solved quickly.

-Hygiene, brushing and nail trimming. It is best to start with the hygiene since they are very small. If we are used to them from the first weeks of life to brush it, regular baths and to cut their nails, they will not give many problems when they are older. If not do so when it is wholesale can give us many problems.

-Scratches in furniture, curtains,... Cats need to sharpen their nails and will not always do so in the right place although we give them one. In stores you can find scrapers so cats sharpen their nails, but we can also provide you a log of wood or esparto mats. Damage are minimized with a cut regular nails, but even with clipped fingernails can continue to do damage. The best solution in extreme cases in surgical removal.

- As educate you so don't do improper things. It is important that never we punish our cat physically, since it will be anything that I learn and safely lose their trust indefinitely.

When you do something wrong, it is much better to frighten him with a loud voice, always using the same word, e.g. NO! We can accompany the word with a clap near the animal.

Especially in the case of sharpened fingernails in improper places, it is very effective to use water as an example, we relate us with punishment. We can do it with a water gun from far away.

For example, if is this sharpened nails on a couch and we stick a "dip" by surprise, cat associated is the armchair that is "protected" from your nails. If we are consistent you finished learning the lesson.

Water and scold him serves only if we do it at the right time when the doing (a posteriori is useless) and will only learn if we always do it without exception.