Russell Clark
Editor http://www.CatNews.org

My wife and I have owned 10 cats over the past twenty five years and we
have never swatted them or raised a hand to them for discipline. Want
to know our secrete?

Here is what we do to train our young cats to stay off the counters and
table. We have a cheap $2 squirt gun loaded with water in every room.
When we see one of our cats doing something wrong we zap them with the
water pistols.

This method has worked for us for over twenty years. It only takes a
few shots and even the most stubborn cat will learn your rules of the
house. This has got to be one of the most humane ways to discipline
cats that I know of.

Water is safe for indoor use and will not stain anything and I must
admit I do kind of enjoy shooting at live pray.  Which brings me to the
warning I must give you about this method of disciplining your cats.

One day last summer a gentlemen came by my office selling squirt guns.
Not just any squirt guns mind you, he laid before me a super soaker
5000. My head immediately filled with visions of tagging my misbehaving
cats from across the room. I was sold.

That night after dinner I was casually lounging in my chair trying to
not tip off the cats that I had a new secrete weapon in our war over
who gets to set on the table.

Just minutes before I filled my new toy with an amazing two gallons of
water. Now you might say that's a lot of water but my thinking was
the more water the gun holds the less times I have to get up to fill
it.

Evidently the dudes at the toy company were serious when they named
this gun the super soaker because, latter that night I took aim at one
of our cats who jumped on the table, and pulled the trigger. In less
then the time I could say oh s**t  two gallons of water went whizzing
toward my cat.

All of my wives work papers lying on the table were under about two
inches of water and the cat didn't have a drop on her. . . So much for
shock and awe. My wife was in shock and I think the cat was in awe over
my stupidity.

The lesson to be learned here is when using this method of disciplining
your cats remember there is such a thing as to much fire power. Hey!
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