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Who Else Wants To Avoid These Cat Claw Catastrophies?

Don't get caught holding the bag whenwhich had startled both of us.
your cat decides to claw houseguests andThere are some cats that are afraid of
unsuspecting members of your family.children, but I think most pets respond
Even after you have gotten your cat usedwell to acclimatization. You can expose
to using her own personal scratchingyour cat to young children, like I did.
post to sharpen her claws on a regularJust wait a while before you let them
basis, there are still times when yourloose around your cat. Sit the child
pet may suddenly lash out to clawnext to you and feed your kitty treats,
people.then gradually let the child take over.
But before you rush to judgement andDo this for small stretches over several
perhaps punishment, ask yourself tosessions. This worked well for me. Abby
consider the motivation behind suchis now comfortable around the
acting out behavior. Cats, like mostneighborhood children.
animals, will lash out when they areI'm grateful that Abby was able to get
afraid. So when your cat suddenly clawsused to being around children, but I
people, before you play the blame gamecould detect that at times she would get
with your pet, try to consider bothjealous of the attention the children
sides of the equation. Is it your cat'sreceived, and would proceed to jump
fault, or the people around her who havebetween us. Some cats do get jealous of
provoked her or made her frightened?certain people. Some cats start acting
I was prime witness to just such aout and being mean to certain people
situation when the family who gave me mytoo. If this situation persists, the
cat Abby dropped by for a spontaneous,only thing to do is remove the cat from
unannounced visit. They had not seenthe situation. When your cat starts
Abby for about a year. As she had beengrowling or clawing, pick her up and
an exclusively indoor cat, she had notake her to the bathroom until your
contact with people outside my family. Iguest is gone. You may also advise your
could tell she was startled when a groupguest that if they are also a pet owner,
of five people barreled into the house.your cat may be responding to the scent
Abby's first response was to dive underon the person's clothes.
the dining room table. The childrenThe worst thing is when your cat
proceeded to try to yank her out fromconsistently claws a family member. If
under the table. I could tell she wasit's a family member, try a commercially
frightened. From under the table I couldavailable cat repellant or lemon juice
hear her hissing. A low rumbling growlto keep the cat away, then
which I had never heard before wasacclimatization to get them used to the
coming from the pit of her stomach. Theother person. If all this fails, you may
children kept poking and prodding herbe forced to consider declawing your
even though to me it was obvious she waspet.
distressed. They kept waving their handsRemember that when your pet acts out,
in front of her face and then pullingthere is usually a reason for it. When
them away. To make matters worse, theyanimals are frightened, they go into
had also brought one of her littermates,defense mode. In these situations, we
who she now seemed to consider acan often forgive their clawing
stranger. In a panic, I rushed to open amistakes. To avoid cat clawing
sliding glass door so Abby could jumpcatastrophies, try the steps outlined
through before the two cats could squareabove. Small doses of exposure to people
off against each other.will usually cure your cat of its'
I remember thinking that this wholeclawing outbursts. Then again, cats like
experience was so abrupt andpeople, can be finicky with their
traumatizing for Abby that I couldn'taffections. If you have tried and tried
blame her when the claws came out. Yetfor instance, to get your cat used to
I'm sure from the looks on the faces ofyour mother in law, but to no avail,
my guests that day, that they blamed mewhat can you do? How can you blame kitty
and my cat for their claw marks. Theyfor not liking her? After all, if the
assumed Abby was afraid of or didn'ttruth be known, it's not like you like
like children. I didn't think that washer that much either.
the issue, it was their sudden entrance



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