How to Get Your Cats to Stop... Everything You Hate: Every No Needs a Yes!

so Jackson I really want my cat to do this and not that hey Ethel Heidi Frank Frank come back here not Frank I want my cat to sit in my lap I don't want my cat to sit on the countertops dinner's almost ready no get up no that is not for you get no no no no no no no no no no no every time I ask my cat to do this and not that Toby the curtains how many times look at me look at look at me you know that's wrong stop it stop it

get off the curtain you know cats are just like that you know they're stubborn and and they don't care about what I say and cats are just you and oh I'm getting angry here oh it's starting to work me up a lot of times this is normal cat behavior but we put it in the box of it being vengeful stop scratching that chair no don't don't no no no don't do it stop getting mad step back take a beat because none of the things that you might be thinking of are gonna work what are those

things these are the things I never want you to do no spray bottle no spanking no yelling no throwing pillows across the room no rubbing their nose in their pee do not Scruff them pick them up put them in another room these are all punishments punishments without any positive behind it if you are using a squirt bottle and if you haven't seen me talk about this a lot check out this video but if you're holding that squirt bottle and you're spraying your cat and you're saying no then really they're just making them afraid and by

the way they're afraid of this which is attached to this which is attached to this I mean think about it if every time your cat does something you don't like but whatever that is and you spray them with a squirt bottle and they run away you go okay well that worked so do you think that when you leave the room they're still going to avoid that thing of course not it's you they're afraid of not the the act of scratching the couch so all you got to know is when you leave the room it'll happen

the things that I'm going to give you right now are effective because the environment does it you don't do it but every single time they do an action then they get the no so that's why I'm here to give you acceptable no's that might lead to acceptable yeses and by the way some never as well so let's get going so let's say that you had a child you come home and there's just magic marker and finger paints and and crayons all over the wall you get all Angry go up to your room think about what

you've done come home the next day same thing every day it's wiping off the walls getting angry punishment whatever it is and every day same thing so you see the futility of constant punishment and all you might have had to do is buy that child an easel not on the wall on an easel no yes how does that apply to cats that's what I'm talking talking about so let's take the countertops or a table for a good example so one of the things that you can do is you can get one of those feeding mats

that we use for cats turn it upside down and put some double-sided sticky tape on it pretty simple so every time your cat jumps up on that counter they get a little sticky so there's the no the sticky mat and on the other hand we have to think of why they want to be on that table or that counter now the counter kind of easy you guys the counter is usually food and so if you're leaving food on the counter all the time well that's a no for you stop putting food on the counter another

no in this instance is one of my favorite little gentle nose which is an Air Canister that has just a little electric eye to it and if they cross that path then there's a puff of air that comes out and a little sound and it basically lets them know every time you jump up here nothing good is going to happen see how this works again the environment does it you have nothing to do with it you set up that can every time they jump up it happens but then the yes becomes all right the kitchen

itself is a place where we all gather where things happen where energy is high so let's give them an acceptable place to be a cat tree on the edge of the kitchen that's where a yes happens so no I don't want you here so there's the sticky yes to a cat tree and you can lead them to that place with jackpot treats of some sort or another if you're doing this let's say it's cooking you're doing this nope sticky mat on that counter but yes this is the place where we go to get jackpots while

Mom or Dad are cooking get it no yes what's the Never Never scream at them and throw them off the counter hey you know what a big yes is a yes is you hitting that button that says I subscribe to this channel because I like the content on this channel and oh by the way next to the uh the the button where you subscribe is the button where you can join and join makes you a Mojo nod and Mojo not make sure that you get all kinds of fun stuff all month long check out that

button and you'll see everything from Bonus content to exclusive live streams uh you will be happy to become a Mojo knot another one I get all the time is how do I get my cat from door dashing so there's a few things uh one that you might have seen on a very old episode of My Cat From Hell where I created a shelf for the cat to watch people come into the house and to you know peek out the house as well but it was high enough and out of the way enough that we we

could keep an eye on them because doordashing the thing that makes it sometimes impossible is that your cat just scoots out from between your legs and out the door if we can teach them that this is the place where you get a great bird's eye view of what's going on in the world but at the same time I can keep an eye on you there we go that's one way of stopping door dashing another is the Air Canister that I referred to before if we set it up with a nice distance to the door so

it's not at the door but let's say it's 10 feet away and you keep that thing just on all the time I mean yes it's going to go off if somebody comes in the door but you'll you'll deal with that it's a puff of air but this Wave It's always turned on it's not the door itself it's the space that leads to the door that becomes a no and again the yes is a perch somewhere around there the no is every time you come within 10 feet of the door you get that puff of air

something that's just a little scary the no is the puff from the Air Canister the yes is a perch nearby but never just kick your cat out of the way and also never yell at your cat after they've dashed out the door you want a Sure Fire wave your cat not coming back in that's the way to do it it so now I mean this gets asked all the time how do I get my cat from scratching on the chair the bed the the the rugs whatever it is again here's a full-length video on this

right up there so you can watch it also all of these videos are going to be listed in the description so you can always go down there and watch the full video after you've watched this one no yes so how do we get them to stop scratching the furniture if you use something like sticky Paws that's always been my best friend it doesn't harm the furniture it comes in like wide swats if you're talking about the side of the couch or something like that it's a great no because most cats I'm gonna say are gonna

go They're Gonna feel it and they're gonna go well this is not getting me what I want at all there's your no right there something like sticky paws on that couch the yes you guessed it it's a scratching post it's a scratching surface near where they're scratching let me tell you why very quickly because there's a full-length video a lot of times if you think about it you're cats scratching the couch or your bed those are the two big ones and the reason one of the reasons is that your scent is really strong in that

area so you're going to want to complement that scent so the yes has to be right near that no you want to have that scratching post right near the couch so there is your your yes right next to your no and I'm telling you folks it works it's not permanent this is a training tool you're not always going to have sticky Paws and all your stuff it's just if they do it four or five six times and you're noticing they go to that yes you can let it go because now they've learned no they've learned

yes and you never have to resort to the never which is get away from the coach stop it stop it scream scream yell yell Chuck something never what about the big no for all you guys then that is your cat waking you up in the middle of the night because right now what's your no throwing a pillow at them Frank not one more time throwing something at them or whatever or even worse than that acquiescing getting up and feeding them or playing with them or whatever at three o'clock in the morning and then complaining that

you didn't get enough sleep the no in this case would be you completely ignoring them burying your head not saying their name not getting up not just in any way saying that this will get you something the no in this case is nothing that's the no whether it's walking on your face whether it's making noise in the corner and so that's you ignoring there's the no the yes is everything that happens around bedtime it's a big long yes including a yes of a meal before they go to bed a yes of playing maybe before you

go to bed an hour before you go to bed you start getting that body to wind down it's a whole world full of yes and doing it on a daily basis I'm telling you this no you s repeated over the span of let's say 10 days max you will see a change in Behavior you never don't throw the pillow don't throw the pillow when your cat is driving you crazy because they're up on a shelf knocking things off they're climbing the drapes they're running around the house just getting into all kinds of Dennis the Menace

type trouble the the no and the yes are pretty clear usually when you see you know whether they're Zoomies or whether they're just general high volume troublemaking then it usually will happen around the same time of day now the nose are your sort of Usual Suspects here whether it's sticky Paws that go on the curtain towards the bottom half of that or wherever they tend to be able to to start whether your CAT scales if your cat launches onto the the drapes from your couch then it could be across the top of the couch or

you just move the couch away from the drapes a little bit but whatever that is just put that remember it's a training wheel no and that would be something sticky if it's something on a shelf then number one you guys stop putting things that are just so alluring that they want to knock it off on the shelves again it's like food on the counter the no could be that Air Canister up there or you just block their entrance to that shelf there's a way of saying no environmentally now the yes is positive catification cat trees

are your best friend man and if you are against the look of traditional cat trees there are plenty plenty on the market that will meet your aesthetic taste I promise you it's there but start putting cat furniture around the house you can't just say no by blocking things by taking things off the mantle the other big yes is play if your cat is doing these things if they're jumping around if they're zooming around the house they're letting you know at this time of day I got a lot of energy built up Say Yes by playing

play with your cat every day get that energy out of them so that you don't have to be in a position where you have to say no if your cat's just looking for trouble in all the wrong places give them something right to do and that's what a laser is for or let's say your cat responds to like independent toys when I say independent toys those little ones like little fuzzy mice or something like that a lot of those have sound makers in them just like our mini Mojo which when you shake it it has

like that little sound in it that can be in your pocket if you see your cat about to do something shake that thing off in the other direction you didn't have to do a no because you caught them doing it you see that move that they're about to do where they just start going like this whether their aim is another cat in the house or something they're about to jump onto you can catch that beforehand then you got that Shaker you got that laser and away they go to something else you know you got sticky

tape you got air blasters okay you got those things I don't want you to take it that other place you have to be aware of when you've crossed that line between unpleasant and painful So to that end I'm not a big fan of those bats that have that low electric charge to them that can be really painful things with spikes on them that when they step on it it's not just unpleasant it's painful stay away from that and also obviously I've got a whole freaking video on this is that horrible Trend with shock collars so

that when your cat does something they get shocked now you might say Well they're not getting shocked by me I'm not doing they can't see it it's invisible it's painful you can go with uncomfortable or not desirable but don't go to painful and know that line pay most of everything that I use for nose and yeses could be found on my store right here so whether we're talking about the book so you learn about catification whether we're talking about sticky Paws or scat the Air Canister or interactive toys or independent toys or anything I mentioned

check out the store should you feel bad because you've done these no's in the past no no you shouldn't you know the thing is you're doing the first yes which is watching this video and you're thinking to yourself well maybe there's a better way than the way I've done it in the past and I'm willing to learn and that's all that this is about the willingness to to just switch up your frame of reference and see this whole thing as a relationship as a point of compromise instead of just trying to get your way all

the time lay down The rules that's not what you have to do and so like I said you're watching this and that's the first yes now if you continue to do things that are destructive to your relationship just because you wanna then maybe I'll judge you you know what I mean like I say about declawing all the time do I judge you for doing it in the past no we can learn as much from our animal family members as we do our human ones you got me yes you got yes you got me and then

you're like no no I'm gonna go and break out that water bottle no no never no yes never no light and love and Mojo to you take care everybody foreign [Music] [Music]