i fucking am sick and goddamn tired of the cat licking me. any suggestions? and i mean serious ones. the cat belongs to the incense burning/turning roommate so i can't hurt it b/c she would hurt me. i have reached the end of my rope with this. i do not enjoy being groomed and i am close to hurting the animal.
anotherben.. said at 4:24 PM 06-01-2004: let the cat watch you bathe/shower. this will say to the cat "look.. i am clean". and then the cat will look for someone else to groom.
jake [email] said at 4:37 PM 06-01-2004: I can attest that this works.
If you snap your fingers right before you spray, you'll train the cat to run away when you snap, so you don't have to always carry a spray bottle (and so you can keep the cat away without spraying it in front of the roommate).
jake [email] said at 4:44 PM 06-01-2004: no, it's not.
First, train the cat to expect a spritz every time it hears you snap.
Make a clear arm motion so it sees you snap, and then squirt it. Do that once in a while for three or so days.
Then, when it's nuzzling you, wait for the lick and immediately snap! and then squirt.
If you keep the training up, you'll get to the point where the cat will stop nuzzling as soon as it hears the snap, and then soon enough it won't lick at all.
jake [email] said at 4:46 PM 06-01-2004: PS I'm sort of making up the time periods on this--every kind of animal has a different threshold for learning from repeated punishment, and I think it's pretty quick for cats, but I don't know.
ed [email] said at 6:01 PM 06-01-2004: Jessie Mae is a chronic groomer, and has the roughest tongue God ever bestowed upon a cat. Seriously, it feels like sandpaper with shards of glass embedded in it.
But she does it because she loves me, so I can't bring myself to discourage it. I just walk around with sore forearms (from nighttime in-bed grooming) and ankles (from daytime he's-in-the chair-again grooming).
Okay, that doesn't help, but Josh and Art are correct - if there is a particular spot the cat is fond of, rub a little cayenne or dash on a bit of tabasco. It's not like you have to wear it all day, rather, only when you're home and vulnerable to the torture. The cat will not associate you with bad things (like squirted water), but will rather just decide that you taste awful. Of curse if you don't have those specific areas, like I do, then you're pretty much gonna have to be the Bad Guy. Only not so much a guy.
courtney [email] said at 7:05 PM 06-01-2004: kev had a cat that would wake him up in the morning by licking his nose. he's a heavy sleeper, so it got to the point that the kitty licked his nose raw. eek.
