5 ERRORES que cometes al REGAÑAR a tu GATO 🙋‍♂️❌🐈

The process of training your feline requires a lot of patience and calm in order to be carried out in the most bearable way possible for you and your cat. In this video by an animal expert, we explain the five most common mistakes when scolding a cat so that you can avoid them and better understand your kitty. Let's get started. First. Not giving it alternatives Many people have erroneous expectations about how a cat should behave and are unaware of its essential needs. For example, cats need to scratch and hiss when something bothers them. Trying to eliminate this type of behavior through punishment is like not allowing it to eat or breathe. If we do this, the cat will feel stressed and will try to perform these behaviors in an inappropriate way, such as scratching furniture. Therefore, it is necessary to retrain the feline so that it directs these behaviors in a positive way, both for you and for it. A good example is acquiring a scratching post and redirecting its behaviors towards it. Similarly, when there are behaviors such as excessive meowing, marking or hissing, it is necessary to locate the cause to improve your feline's well being, something that you will not achieve by scolding it. Discover in the video that we have left for you above how to offer your cat good environmental enrichment. 2. Yelling at it or physically attacking it. You should never disproportionately scold a cat as it is not able to understand the reason for your anger or what it can do to avoid it. The feline may end up confused and associate this negative experience with you, making it feel afraid every time it sees you. To train the cat, it is very important to be helpful and avoid generating negative emotions that it may associate with you. In fact, more than scolding it, what you should do is dissuade it from carrying out inappropriate actions to redirect them correctly. Keep in mind that it is always preferable to opt for positive reinforcement rather than negative reinforcement. 3. Force it to smell its feces or urine. There's a belief that it is necessary to teach a cat to defecate or urinate so that it understands that you do not want it to do so in a certain place, but the reality is that this action is inappropriate and cruel. This way it will never learn to relieve itself properly. If your cat does not relieve itself in the correct place, you must find the cause. It may urinate outside the litter box because it is stressed or has not properly learned where its bathroom is it. In the video above, we show you the most common causes of this behavior. 4. Being inconsistent when training a cat, it is very important to be consistent. That is, you cannot scold your cat for something that you sometimes allow it to do. For example, if you do not want it to get on the table, never let it do it. If, on the other hand, you sometimes allow it to get on the table, but other times you scold it for doing so, your cat will not be able to understand it. This also implies being consistent in its education from the time it is a kitten. In other words, do not allow it to do things that you do not want it to do as an adult, so as not to confuse it. 5. Doing it late finally, one of the most common mistakes is trying to correct a cat long after it has done something inappropriate. For example, scolding it when you get home and see that it has made a mess. In these types of situations, even if you understand the reason for your scolding, your cat is unable to understand the cause of your anger and will begin to feel insecure with you. The key to success will be to offer it proper environmental enrichment, be consistent and coherent in its education, and opt for positive reinforcement. Tell us, do you and your cat understand each other perfectly? Up here is a video in which you can learn everything about feline language. Until next time, experts.