Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site aluxe.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!aluxe!2141smh From: 2141smh@aluxe.UUCP (henning) Newsgroups: net.pets Subject: Re: water pistol unniceness/God rains on cats. Message-ID: <608@aluxe.UUCP> Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 11:05:34 EST Article-I.D.: aluxe.608 Posted: Tue Jan 8 11:05:34 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 9-Jan-85 04:02:06 EST References: <128@magic.ARPA> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Allentown, PA Lines: 16 **** **** From the keys of Steve Henning, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, PA aluxe!2141smh > A cat understands "No" said in a scolding tone of voice, and it > understands being picked up and taken away from whatever you > don't want it messing around with.... I have only had 2 indoor/outdoor cats, but both of them would remember all of the things they has been scolded for and use them as ploys to be fed or as a method of civil disobediance for any reason. However if the punishment was not related to people, such as suddenly getting a little damp, there was no such thought of retribution. By the way, the same cats don't hesitate to go out into the rain so being hit with a spray can't be too tramatic. The spray has been a good deterent after only about 2 or 3 times.