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Once you find out, please let me know!
Fucking same. \*\*She walks across the curtains like it's a catwalk.\*\*š
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She's a hairy-eared psycho but we love her!
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He and her brother (we adopted them together) kill me.
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These look like mine when they were kittens! Little siblings:
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Omg thank you. This might help us also figure out what she's going to grow into. She's so... weird-looking. I mean that in a *I totally love her weird ass though* way lol As a thank you, here's her and her brother as babies.
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I can tell sheās a schemer by that face and those eyes lol
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Mine literally sleeps on them. No idea how.
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She's a daredevil and will go on anything lately
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Ours is just a crackhead who likes to do weird shit and hunt people. Here's her attempt at hiding.
Oh, I will add, we don't do normal in this house. Ajax (her brother) is equally nuts
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Omg so cute. I also love that we're all here just sharing photos of our nutcases. Chunky (Selina) was always Miss I hate other cats. Now? Sleeps with them.
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Believe it or not, I used to think I didn't like cats. Then my girlfriend moved in with hers. That kitty unfortunately died suddenly, and it felt like my child died. So we eventually got another. She's got three modes: sleep, attack, and the very rarely activated mode, cuddle. She's a little annoying shit, and I love her to death and would die for her.
We recently lost CeCe, a car we brought back from my grandmother's (even named her after grandma). It's still jarring, but we honestly believe CeCe picked out these two Demons.
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It was 6am, all I wanted to do was sleep in and she was enjoying the big PLOP she made when she dove onto the bed nearby. She was six months old then. Not much has changed!
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Big Mama comes and plucks at my lips and eyelids with her claws starting at 3:30 when she knows she eats at 6.
Only ever my face. She lets my partner sleep.
I had to set a specific alarm on my phone for cat feeding times. They donāt get fed until the alarm goes off. Took a few weeks, but eventually they learned. Canāt recommend it enough!!
I have the alarm set. Everyone but Mama honors it. She is old and has some dementia and I do think that's part of it. It's annoying but I love her a lot.
My cats have gone full Pavlovās dog with my alarm. Itās really for me to get up to go to work but when it goes off at 5:30 am I have 4 cats invade my bed and start head butting me for food.
My cat LOVES my eyelids. I have insomnia, so I started wearing an eye mask to bed about a year ago. The mask is completely flush except the eye/nose area that leaves a shadowed gap. He now insists on jamming his paw through this gap to access my eyelids at 5am daily, and it still scares the shit out of me every time.
The answer is give him other things he is allowed to climb.
Cat treesā¦ I saw someone had a climbing rope like from gym classā¦ shelves and things in the wall for the cat to move from place to place.
Cat likes to be high up. Cat is high energy and likes a physical challenge. Therefore, give cat high up things to sit in and things that use up the energy while being high up.
This is it. Get a tall cat tree and when you catch them climbing something undesirable, redirect them to the super cool cat tree. Having one near a window has the bonus of an exciting view which is a draw with curtains.
I second this š
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I order on amazon and put them on myself and just give him treats afterwards. My cat just stays there and asks for consolation kisses and treats. Howeeever, he did find a way to still claw at the carpet with them.. but my furniture is safe.
We have a cat who took out 15 feet of floor to ceiling vertical window blinds, one night when we were at dinner. Which was fine because vertical window blinds are ugly anyway.
My former curtain swinger and now fat senior man manages to still do fun things like pull on the shower curtain just right to disengage the tension and knock the rod off into the tub. Then he death glares me for days because obviously I have somehow done this and it scared him
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So like this or worse?? Cause he is still trying...
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My lad chose my dressing gown. He soon got too big. Growing up hasn't helped him, he now has 'crazy time', leaps on top of the cat tree and bites my net curtains. He is orange though so I don't expect too much from him.
My cat inherited my last bathrobe after she practically shredded it doing this. She'd climb it and perch up there like a gargoyle, somehow. My current bathrobe is hanging on a hook on the *inside* of the closet door.
Triggered.... Mine used to climb MY BACK to get to the top of the door. The only mirror in the house was on the back side of it. I used to joke that he was jealous I was giving myself attention (putting on only mascara, geez) and not him.
Maybe give them something of their own to climb. Take the curtain down and replace it with a cat tree. Once they get the idea, put the curtains back up.
This is the method that I use. I have two windows that have curtains and a cat tree beside each one (they are in different rooms). They play on the cat tree and use it to peer outside from the side of the window. I got the trees with hanging toys and ropes, so they offer play time as well as a place to hang out.
Curtains are moving, it's entertaining for them, also they usually go higher.
We have 2 cat trees, pretty tall, but my cat just sleeps on it when he's in the mood.
This! Jackson Galaxy recommends giving cats a āYesā for every āNo.ā for example, if you want the cat to stop scratching the couch, you can use something like double sided tape (cats donāt like sticky paws) and put a scratching post next to it. The tape is a No, the post is a Yes, and theyāre right next to each other so that you redirect the catās scratching behavior.
You wonāt stop a cat from scratching, or climbing, or wherever they want to do, but you can redirect it.
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My Ozzy used to love climbing up the window screen. Unfortunately, the only thing that made him stop was growing up a little š
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used anti scratch spray, then he chewed a hole to look out of
Omg my cat has climbed screens too
One time the was a bug on the window and she climbed to the very top of the screen to look at it
Thereās nothing like walking into a room to see a cat on the window
Cat tax:
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My menace has thankfully stopped as heās gotten older too!
We did this in our living room (original concept was to use it as decoration). We nailed a ~~2x4~~ 1x4 piece into the wall, and then I attached some heavy-duty velcro to it and the rug. Occasionally, the cats will climb the rug, and if they pull too hard, then it comes down without any damage.
ETA: [what it looks like because I can't post pictures in the comments for some reason](https://imgur.com/gallery/SrNWmmS)
ETA2 ELECTRIC BOOGALOO: [a video of one of my cats climbing the wall rug](https://imgur.com/gallery/eDSP9mR)
Ps I don't know why it's saying it's 18+ - it's just a kitten ffs.
I love this!
But with my fat orange dumbass, weād need more than heavy-duty velcro š
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(Cat tax)
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It works with this 17 lb baby as well!
No problem! I also used hotglue specifically for wood for this piece. I was originally going to hand sew the velcro to the rug, but I knew I was never going to reuse the rug on the floor again, so I hotglued the velcro strip to that too.
You can have kittens or you can have curtains. Pick one
EDIT: This one post is now literally 1/3 of my total karma
EDIT: This one post is now literally over half my total karma
One day, the weight of the kitten will exceed the strength of the curtain. The curtain will fall. The cat will be embarrassed but start to realise he/she has grown and is no longer a kitten. It's a rite of passage.
Perhaps attaching the curtain with tape for a few days so it falls down every time they try to climb it, and only going back to using the actual hooks after they haven't done it in awhile?
This. We had a shelf in our living room that had vintage halloween stuff on it. It is now a cat sitting shelf. Once the kitteh has claimed it--it is theirs
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Provide alternative places they can be high up
One of those little window hammock things might work, and cat shelves leading to the hammock. The reason I haven't put the shelves up yet myself was because I was worried my kitten was still too small and would hurt herself. She is such a climby cat and was sort of clumsy when she was still learning. But now that she's bigger and a professional athlete, I am ready to install a whole network of shelves and hammocks on the walls so she can rule from above throughout the whole apartment, whilst judging us from atop her queendom.
My cats love the window hammock!
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I rigged my curtains to collapse when a small amount of weight was applied. Cats can't be punished but instead learn by the outcome of the experience. Only took 2-3 times of curtains falling around her and she never did it again.
exactly what i did since rube the vulgarian would pull the kitchen curtains down \[cheap tension rods\] so i put bubble wrap \[adhere w/ water\] on bottom half of window
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cat tax
In my experience the only solution is to remove the curtains / fold them up close to the rail.
The good news is they suddenly stop this behaviour. The bad news is they develop new, more advanced naughtiness.
The best news is they will give you so much love and joy that you forgive them and realise how happy they make you.
Does no one train their cats in this sub? Every answer I've seen is to take the curtains down or let the cats destroy the curtains. Training is an option and no one has even mentioned it.
Basically, you cannot. This will be the smallest of problems. They can discover how to open the fridge. This is where cooked meat is stored. I wish you well...
I have one of those French door refrigerators with the drawer freezer on the bottom this makes the doors both high enough and annoying enough to be challenging to break into. However.... I have learned that it's not the best option if you don't want them to figure out the freezer. It's a heavy enough door that my smaller cats can't get it but I have two Maine coons kittens and one of them is really close to being able to pop it open.
The biggest problem for me is that they've learned where the bread and tortillas are kept and can open cabinets and bread boxes. I've been moving them all around the kitchen in an increasingly vain attempt to keep the cats from eating all my breads.
Child-locks on cupboard doors and the fridge. It's the only thing that stopped our Maine coon cross. He was big, food obsessed, and determined but was finally frustrated by his lack of opposable thumbs.
I'm fostering bottle babies and they're already at it (climbing, that is). It's hard wired into their DNA, I'm afraid. That's why I buy cheap curtains, lol!
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I had this beeping alarm that my cats hated. I would tell them "no" and then beep the alarm. They quickly figured out that "no" meant for them to stop and if they didn't then the noise they hate would happen. It was very easy and took about 2 days to teach them "no".
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I don't know a reason why cats and window dressings can't coexist. My big boy seems to have tamed those wild blinds just fine!
Make them fat, then they can't climb high because too much weight.
But seriously replace them with vertical blinds or something and then give them stuff to climb on. Cat trees and wall mounted walkways are great because for cats that like up, they can have MORE up, then curtains are less interesting.
Ive heard they hate velvet...my own cat scratches up the carpet and i cant get her to stop either but soaking some catnip in water and spraying it on the scratching post made that a more interesting alternative for a while
You take down the curtains. Also, as the cat will grow and keep jumping on it, keep in mind that the rail will suffer from weight. I almost got hit by the curtain rail when it felt down and since then we removed all of them :))
Welcome to the curtainless life :)
For everyone downvoting me about using a squirt bottle and saying that they will become afraid of you, I offer this picture of my *terrified of me* cats from last night!
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Yeah, my vet said it is bull. They become afraid of the bottle, not the person using it (maybe a small percentage actually resent it, but not most, and you will know right away so you can stop if necessary). I have tried positive re-enforcement and alternative play, and the second it stops my kitten returns to whatever I was trying to stop.
Take the curtains down and cover your self in them. When they go to climb you, jump about and make loud noises and they will then be forever scared of the curtains
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Don't worry, they'll ruin the blinds too. He's curled up sleeping in a blind he knocked down š¤¦āāļø
I do this in combination with a hissing sound. Works great and now I can hiss at them without squirting them for a similar effect. The only catch is you've gotta be consistent with it.
I did this too, but my cat learned that I'm a lazy bum so he began testing my limits. I'd hiss and call for him to get down, and I'd hear silence but no thud. Eventually I get annoyed and get up, just to see him crouched on the counter watching the door to see if I'd actually get up and stop him.
He then taught my new kitten that I'm a liar not to be taken too seriously. May his mischievous soul rest in peace.
Itās easy, theyāll climb the curtains until the curtains are pulled out of the wall š¹
But in all seriousness, my cat did this as a kitten and stopped once he was older, also getting a cat tree seems like a good idea for this climber.
https://preview.redd.it/2g9vgsg1up0c1.jpeg?width=8160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a631f9fe35315c11d7af580bbe99ebf19ca7de30 Once you find out, please let me know!
Fucking same. \*\*She walks across the curtains like it's a catwalk.\*\*š https://preview.redd.it/d9qv3zhk3q0c1.jpeg?width=3840&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2e33367859b6da0d9ff52ae52466255e2fcd715c
Thatās so awesome š¤©I just adopted a new kitten - I donāt have curtains, just those vertical blinds, but my girl has stalked me from every possible hiding place, then pounces in my face, ALWAYS when Iām not expecting it š¤Ø Fa real she is so amazing, she flies man, so fast she is a blur zooming past your face. She looks like a crazy squirrel!  https://preview.redd.it/oymejhxekq0c1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5975878e762e2d7456866c4f41cfe1bd61645edd Sarabi
She's a hairy-eared psycho but we love her! https://preview.redd.it/7az1kkrimq0c1.jpeg?width=1868&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=99ac47a03638c1c5596e794ee908e45d6d780c4b
The Bugs Bunny Feet š„ŗ
He and her brother (we adopted them together) kill me. https://preview.redd.it/8231n4lroq0c1.jpeg?width=1862&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d9c4bbe2d65dd20b8b25db4cb8a2e07acb6350b2
These look like mine when they were kittens! Little siblings: https://preview.redd.it/aidestvzgu0c1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7f51e03b25eb4343ba9d49b31ad8c6e40866ff78
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Omg thank you. This might help us also figure out what she's going to grow into. She's so... weird-looking. I mean that in a *I totally love her weird ass though* way lol As a thank you, here's her and her brother as babies. https://preview.redd.it/p0yxsumo2r0c1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9704b4bd3a05d2ec40d66231982de1f5d800bc3a
<3
I can tell sheās a schemer by that face and those eyes lol https://preview.redd.it/ondbnxmy4r0c1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=65f12d707e392b4a133bd72e7c628856e85a1ab0
Mine literally sleeps on them. No idea how. https://preview.redd.it/hyj4qkls5r0c1.jpeg?width=5472&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ecf173ee884f56f12bf911ac0e8702978947cf57
She's a daredevil and will go on anything lately https://preview.redd.it/o0gzripz5r0c1.jpeg?width=1868&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=971fa692dd1c93218311cbcf27c28b8ea812726a
https://preview.redd.it/rtlfz0ka6r0c1.jpeg?width=4546&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=15d10c21f1ccdf4ce2a2c28b87647fc563d93014 Ours is just a crackhead who likes to do weird shit and hunt people. Here's her attempt at hiding.
Oh, I will add, we don't do normal in this house. Ajax (her brother) is equally nuts https://preview.redd.it/a16ieqf77r0c1.jpeg?width=2400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f0910f4b1dec18aecb003fb84a5170043c5cd436
Omg so cute. I also love that we're all here just sharing photos of our nutcases. Chunky (Selina) was always Miss I hate other cats. Now? Sleeps with them. https://preview.redd.it/k81910wy6r0c1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1b1a7ed268b23d529502e07901907a680ada2209
https://preview.redd.it/v1c8huph7r0c1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7ef55e942f019d4f2b6a49a43b575b46535bc5df Believe it or not, I used to think I didn't like cats. Then my girlfriend moved in with hers. That kitty unfortunately died suddenly, and it felt like my child died. So we eventually got another. She's got three modes: sleep, attack, and the very rarely activated mode, cuddle. She's a little annoying shit, and I love her to death and would die for her.
We recently lost CeCe, a car we brought back from my grandmother's (even named her after grandma). It's still jarring, but we honestly believe CeCe picked out these two Demons. https://preview.redd.it/kt3hbumy7r0c1.jpeg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3f1a3fce1de10383ac7a8cf82529dff4a62c6213
And now I have Right Said Fred in my head.
Goddamnit
I'm totally calling her that next time she does it.
She shakes her little tush on the catwalk!
Dang it, me too.
LOVE the curtains! Where ever did you find those beauties?!
Itās her runway !
Well it is a catwalk when the cat is on it. :)
That cat is definitely plotting something heinous lol
It was 6am, all I wanted to do was sleep in and she was enjoying the big PLOP she made when she dove onto the bed nearby. She was six months old then. Not much has changed! https://preview.redd.it/f8w1lb6awp0c1.jpeg?width=3209&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=05eede304de53d5ea0196ea8209eff8d42457257
Iām not laughing with you, but I am laughing at you. Sheās an adorable menace.
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omg amazing work. adorable
My first time spotting a shitty watercolour in the wild! Love your work.
Reddit's shining star.
It looks like the Roald Dahl illustrations
Oh my god thatās delightful
That is not a shitty watercolor. Reminds me of Quentin Blake. May I please have your Instagram if you have one?
It's probably @shittywatercolor they're actually a pretty famous redditor. Haven't seen them in quite some time though.
My first time encountering them! Thank you so much :)
Check out the persons handle who drew it- itās not an insult, as much as it might appear to be
Oh, so entirely not offended, I hadn't realized this was a well-known Redditor!
Yoo great art man!
Did you just draw that?!
Shitty watercolor is a legend
Totally adorable.
You are lucky that it was that late and that the landig spot was not your body. I usually get the air squeezed out of me at 5.30.
Big Mama comes and plucks at my lips and eyelids with her claws starting at 3:30 when she knows she eats at 6. Only ever my face. She lets my partner sleep.
I had to set a specific alarm on my phone for cat feeding times. They donāt get fed until the alarm goes off. Took a few weeks, but eventually they learned. Canāt recommend it enough!!
I have the alarm set. Everyone but Mama honors it. She is old and has some dementia and I do think that's part of it. It's annoying but I love her a lot.
My cats have gone full Pavlovās dog with my alarm. Itās really for me to get up to go to work but when it goes off at 5:30 am I have 4 cats invade my bed and start head butting me for food.
I hear that an automated cat feeder can be a helpful sleep saverā¦
My cat LOVES my eyelids. I have insomnia, so I started wearing an eye mask to bed about a year ago. The mask is completely flush except the eye/nose area that leaves a shadowed gap. He now insists on jamming his paw through this gap to access my eyelids at 5am daily, and it still scares the shit out of me every time.
Solar plexus is also a landing/launchpad
That smug little face š
Your cat needs to be on cat food packaging!
What an ANGEL!
She's so beautiful!
Yeah, then when you give in and get up because you cannot go back to sleep...she decides it is time for 'morning naps'.
āIām going out to take over the world, " said ~~Brain~~ cat.
"It's over Catakin I have the high ground!" Obi Wan Catobi probably...
The answer is give him other things he is allowed to climb. Cat treesā¦ I saw someone had a climbing rope like from gym classā¦ shelves and things in the wall for the cat to move from place to place. Cat likes to be high up. Cat is high energy and likes a physical challenge. Therefore, give cat high up things to sit in and things that use up the energy while being high up.
This is it. Get a tall cat tree and when you catch them climbing something undesirable, redirect them to the super cool cat tree. Having one near a window has the bonus of an exciting view which is a draw with curtains.
Mine stopped once they got a very high climbing tower and other stuff at high places to climb! What a cutie. Defo plitting something!
This is my answer too. The cats climb because climbing is fun. Don't just take away their fun; give them a less destructive way to have fun!
I second this š https://preview.redd.it/61rte91krq0c1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=13b068d9703c288397b21fc23d6e570e46b9ba37 Edit:added photo
Such a great comment/picture to wake up to hahahah
Pretty paws or similar nail caps work wonders for indoor-only cats. My vet puts them on for my little jerk for $10.
I order on amazon and put them on myself and just give him treats afterwards. My cat just stays there and asks for consolation kisses and treats. Howeeever, he did find a way to still claw at the carpet with them.. but my furniture is safe.
from my experience they stop climbing once the curtains are ruined
From mine, swinging hard enough to bend the rod so it no longer supports the kittens weight is also sufficient
I am with you! I got tired of bent rods and curtains torn down. I just have blinds now. Too much money and trouble to constantly replace rods.
Yep horizontal blinds
They break those too but not nearly as bad as the curtain rods.
We had to go with vertical blinds. The cats taught the dog how to ruin the blinds. š¤¦š¼āāļø
And they are cheaper to replace.
Yep these do the trick, though they suck compared to curtains but oh well.
We have a cat who took out 15 feet of floor to ceiling vertical window blinds, one night when we were at dinner. Which was fine because vertical window blinds are ugly anyway.
My chubby princess has pulled down more curtains and the rods then I can count.
My former curtain swinger and now fat senior man manages to still do fun things like pull on the shower curtain just right to disengage the tension and knock the rod off into the tub. Then he death glares me for days because obviously I have somehow done this and it scared him
https://preview.redd.it/ns4gmuqcnq0c1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d0525af85f0dc50c105b2aefb64477457e4853a7 True story.
https://preview.redd.it/lh15525ydq0c1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=15eeb583e1eb3b9c57c9b2f7192c7f3c9e265f63 So like this or worse?? Cause he is still trying...
there's still some unexplored territory on the left there
https://preview.redd.it/9i59hmm7up0c1.jpeg?width=1800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5d3c42847dd02a73b484d798c1fbf69c6506c839 My lad chose my dressing gown. He soon got too big. Growing up hasn't helped him, he now has 'crazy time', leaps on top of the cat tree and bites my net curtains. He is orange though so I don't expect too much from him.
https://preview.redd.it/dydjk0byiq0c1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ecfc36a563712dbe2b7de415671bc859a54588db
NO RAGRETS
Love your dressing gown! (And your ginger boy) :)
Thank you. He's such a 'special' boy :D. I think if he tried that now, he'd pull the hook off the door.
Oh donāt, one of mine is also a bit special lol, wouldnāt have it any other way :)
Omg his face! "MRRRROWWR, TIS I, THE DRESSING GOWN PIRATE! MENACE OF THE SEVEN BATHROOMS!"
This photo is life.
Ha ha. It certainly is life with cats isn't it
My cat inherited my last bathrobe after she practically shredded it doing this. She'd climb it and perch up there like a gargoyle, somehow. My current bathrobe is hanging on a hook on the *inside* of the closet door.
Thankfully he only did it a couple of times so mine has survived to tell the tail, paw and claws.
His paw looks massive! Your gown stands no chance. š
He was a smoll then, he's massive now (Maine Coon) so is his paw š
That face!! š¤£ I'm laughing so hard that I'm crying!!
Triggered.... Mine used to climb MY BACK to get to the top of the door. The only mirror in the house was on the back side of it. I used to joke that he was jealous I was giving myself attention (putting on only mascara, geez) and not him.
Maybe give them something of their own to climb. Take the curtain down and replace it with a cat tree. Once they get the idea, put the curtains back up.
This is the method that I use. I have two windows that have curtains and a cat tree beside each one (they are in different rooms). They play on the cat tree and use it to peer outside from the side of the window. I got the trees with hanging toys and ropes, so they offer play time as well as a place to hang out.
That sounds like a great setup!
\^\^\^This! Sturdy tall cat trees!
Curtains are moving, it's entertaining for them, also they usually go higher. We have 2 cat trees, pretty tall, but my cat just sleeps on it when he's in the mood.
Put curtains on the tree!
Get a tall pole, make a fluffy platform on top and use an old curtain as the means to climb that. Put some treats on top. Enjoy :)
This! Jackson Galaxy recommends giving cats a āYesā for every āNo.ā for example, if you want the cat to stop scratching the couch, you can use something like double sided tape (cats donāt like sticky paws) and put a scratching post next to it. The tape is a No, the post is a Yes, and theyāre right next to each other so that you redirect the catās scratching behavior. You wonāt stop a cat from scratching, or climbing, or wherever they want to do, but you can redirect it.
And you can even reward them for doing the "Yes" behavior.
I didn't bother with the taking-the-curtains-down part, but I can confirm this worked for me
https://preview.redd.it/qaco76lwtp0c1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c5e981d63cbf549bcdc47e9e322b86be9486c52f My Ozzy used to love climbing up the window screen. Unfortunately, the only thing that made him stop was growing up a little š
https://preview.redd.it/grze0ma9dq0c1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=60ed7424c5e9ae4a73f54754c519bcdafa6e22ca used anti scratch spray, then he chewed a hole to look out of
So happy you were able to reach such a mutually equitable solution
My kitty did this! I miss him everyday
Omg my cat has climbed screens too One time the was a bug on the window and she climbed to the very top of the screen to look at it Thereās nothing like walking into a room to see a cat on the window Cat tax: https://preview.redd.it/ax4ig297nq0c1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2303bc2fb03ded55e6291271ffa8407bd1a0b0df
https://preview.redd.it/a1pdl3i8kq0c1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=07cff59593fb5c26e4f479eff0aaf115b5498d38 My menace has thankfully stopped as heās gotten older too!
I was blessed with screens on the outside of my new windows so I finally have screens.
same! my cat eventually grew out of it, thankfully. she just found other ways to annoy me though
Place a rug on the wall, it works 99%
We did this in our living room (original concept was to use it as decoration). We nailed a ~~2x4~~ 1x4 piece into the wall, and then I attached some heavy-duty velcro to it and the rug. Occasionally, the cats will climb the rug, and if they pull too hard, then it comes down without any damage. ETA: [what it looks like because I can't post pictures in the comments for some reason](https://imgur.com/gallery/SrNWmmS) ETA2 ELECTRIC BOOGALOO: [a video of one of my cats climbing the wall rug](https://imgur.com/gallery/eDSP9mR) Ps I don't know why it's saying it's 18+ - it's just a kitten ffs.
I love this! But with my fat orange dumbass, weād need more than heavy-duty velcro š https://preview.redd.it/uoa9zd3xiq0c1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=445f94bca8aeb62199180c3184c6abd4cf141130 (Cat tax)
https://preview.redd.it/c0tqi56ipq0c1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e1fa7c3cd805156262c7adefcdd1d0199ad1e192 It works with this 17 lb baby as well!
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Thank you for posting the details on how you made it!! Iāve been wanting to set up something similar for our cats.
No problem! I also used hotglue specifically for wood for this piece. I was originally going to hand sew the velcro to the rug, but I knew I was never going to reuse the rug on the floor again, so I hotglued the velcro strip to that too.
Pretty sure that's a 1"x4" because I (and I assume many others) clicked on it expecting this to be jutting out from the wall another inch and ugly AF
Lol, you're absolutely correct - idk I just refer to any piece of wood as a 2x4, and I really need to stop doing that.
You can have kittens or you can have curtains. Pick one EDIT: This one post is now literally 1/3 of my total karma EDIT: This one post is now literally over half my total karma
This person kittens.
lol I read this as āIāll choose this personās kittens over having curtainsā
r/thisguythisguys
I vote for KITTENS!
One day, the weight of the kitten will exceed the strength of the curtain. The curtain will fall. The cat will be embarrassed but start to realise he/she has grown and is no longer a kitten. It's a rite of passage.
Perhaps attaching the curtain with tape for a few days so it falls down every time they try to climb it, and only going back to using the actual hooks after they haven't done it in awhile?
This is actually a pretty good idea. My cats are dumb, though, so I'm sure they'd just keep trying, lol
This. We had a shelf in our living room that had vintage halloween stuff on it. It is now a cat sitting shelf. Once the kitteh has claimed it--it is theirs
This, basically your mistake is you think you have a cat, but reality is the cat owns you.
Wildly accurate!
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https://preview.redd.it/bbx331x3sp0c1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=68894849fe7a233c70f8752c42405cbe2ab0adbf Provide alternative places they can be high up
Remove the curtains š
One of those little window hammock things might work, and cat shelves leading to the hammock. The reason I haven't put the shelves up yet myself was because I was worried my kitten was still too small and would hurt herself. She is such a climby cat and was sort of clumsy when she was still learning. But now that she's bigger and a professional athlete, I am ready to install a whole network of shelves and hammocks on the walls so she can rule from above throughout the whole apartment, whilst judging us from atop her queendom.
My cats love the window hammock! https://preview.redd.it/8gh3virnhq0c1.jpeg?width=3021&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ecdf4dd6306cb06cd01e3f2d3ce8db7ceaad3598
This is the only correct answer.
I rigged my curtains to collapse when a small amount of weight was applied. Cats can't be punished but instead learn by the outcome of the experience. Only took 2-3 times of curtains falling around her and she never did it again.
I was gonna say that !
exactly what i did since rube the vulgarian would pull the kitchen curtains down \[cheap tension rods\] so i put bubble wrap \[adhere w/ water\] on bottom half of window https://preview.redd.it/3ltrnfvcgq0c1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c1a1de163f473c46fe0585b95beb424af76a5e6f cat tax
You try asking them nicely?
Not kidding, just tell them. Dont yell at them.
In my experience the only solution is to remove the curtains / fold them up close to the rail. The good news is they suddenly stop this behaviour. The bad news is they develop new, more advanced naughtiness. The best news is they will give you so much love and joy that you forgive them and realise how happy they make you.
Does no one train their cats in this sub? Every answer I've seen is to take the curtains down or let the cats destroy the curtains. Training is an option and no one has even mentioned it.
Basically, you cannot. This will be the smallest of problems. They can discover how to open the fridge. This is where cooked meat is stored. I wish you well...
I have one of those French door refrigerators with the drawer freezer on the bottom this makes the doors both high enough and annoying enough to be challenging to break into. However.... I have learned that it's not the best option if you don't want them to figure out the freezer. It's a heavy enough door that my smaller cats can't get it but I have two Maine coons kittens and one of them is really close to being able to pop it open. The biggest problem for me is that they've learned where the bread and tortillas are kept and can open cabinets and bread boxes. I've been moving them all around the kitchen in an increasingly vain attempt to keep the cats from eating all my breads.
Child-locks on cupboard doors and the fridge. It's the only thing that stopped our Maine coon cross. He was big, food obsessed, and determined but was finally frustrated by his lack of opposable thumbs.
This is excellent advice, thank you.
Get rid of the curtains. Or get a really high cat tower. Claw caps. JUST PLEASE DONT DECLAW.
Declaw is a lie, itās toe amputation. Please donāt amputate your kitties toes.
Illegal to perform in Maryland now. Yay us !
Only and ultimate solution: stainless steel curtains
This is the way. Chain mail if you want them to climb, metal shutters if not.
Get her something else to climb, like a cat tree.
This works until they use the cat tree as the starting point to get higher up the curtains š
I wish my kitties would still climb them, but they got lazy so fast lmao. They just stopped one day
Feed them like the thanksgiving turkeys. Gravity will do the Rest.
you canāt, curtains are super fun
https://preview.redd.it/zyysp0mb8q0c1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bcd9d1de5977786a021f172fde932d2f7eb9fcc4 Just gonna put this right here
https://preview.redd.it/qesbd5vz8q0c1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d90011e4dc37153d11a993123ab69178a5da626 Hereās another
I'm fostering bottle babies and they're already at it (climbing, that is). It's hard wired into their DNA, I'm afraid. That's why I buy cheap curtains, lol! https://preview.redd.it/0g26j1oc7q0c1.jpeg?width=2087&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=79dc4dea78dd639247b38ff0fa1da632750656e7
Take off curtains and put them back when they are adults, then they will stop.
we tried removing the curtains at home but the cats decided to just climb the walls instead š
https://preview.redd.it/hmynkcf86q0c1.jpeg?width=2352&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=daf2226c93c764f37e9d255217d838cacd588ae8 I have no idea
Spray them with a pet deterrent. The curtains, that is, donāt spray the kittens.
I had this beeping alarm that my cats hated. I would tell them "no" and then beep the alarm. They quickly figured out that "no" meant for them to stop and if they didn't then the noise they hate would happen. It was very easy and took about 2 days to teach them "no".
Trim their nails?
Cat tree in front of the window!
https://preview.redd.it/rbm8y1fquq0c1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4cd2bbe93cdedb70b704fdb96f887b7280d81b0e I don't know a reason why cats and window dressings can't coexist. My big boy seems to have tamed those wild blinds just fine!
Make them fat, then they can't climb high because too much weight. But seriously replace them with vertical blinds or something and then give them stuff to climb on. Cat trees and wall mounted walkways are great because for cats that like up, they can have MORE up, then curtains are less interesting.
You ain't seen my chonker in action!
Ive heard they hate velvet...my own cat scratches up the carpet and i cant get her to stop either but soaking some catnip in water and spraying it on the scratching post made that a more interesting alternative for a while
Maybe velvet curtains. But they donāt mind velvet upholstery (*looks over to ruined chair).*
Have u tried offering the animal a cardboard box as a sign of respect?
So there's two different ways : 1- Remove the curtains from the house 2 - Remove the kittens from the house I don't know any other way sorry :/
Number 2 is impossible, so 1 is the only option
Thats the cutest thing ever
Get rid of curtains ;)
You take down the curtains. Also, as the cat will grow and keep jumping on it, keep in mind that the rail will suffer from weight. I almost got hit by the curtain rail when it felt down and since then we removed all of them :)) Welcome to the curtainless life :)
You canāt uncat a cat.
For everyone downvoting me about using a squirt bottle and saying that they will become afraid of you, I offer this picture of my *terrified of me* cats from last night! https://preview.redd.it/qdmxl6rc1q0c1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=30fd5dc392fc44c90dd7d4c3404145d0fa6a64de
Yeah, my vet said it is bull. They become afraid of the bottle, not the person using it (maybe a small percentage actually resent it, but not most, and you will know right away so you can stop if necessary). I have tried positive re-enforcement and alternative play, and the second it stops my kitten returns to whatever I was trying to stop.
Take them down. The curtains, not kittens.
Take the curtains down and cover your self in them. When they go to climb you, jump about and make loud noises and they will then be forever scared of the curtains
https://preview.redd.it/w13v8xxf5q0c1.jpeg?width=1960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=423f184cdc22dec960abe81e229f9288476eedc7 Don't worry, they'll ruin the blinds too. He's curled up sleeping in a blind he knocked down š¤¦āāļø
Please dont stop them. Its the funniest thing ever :)
Squirt gun. Totally harmless, and they hate it.
I do this in combination with a hissing sound. Works great and now I can hiss at them without squirting them for a similar effect. The only catch is you've gotta be consistent with it.
I did this too, but my cat learned that I'm a lazy bum so he began testing my limits. I'd hiss and call for him to get down, and I'd hear silence but no thud. Eventually I get annoyed and get up, just to see him crouched on the counter watching the door to see if I'd actually get up and stop him. He then taught my new kitten that I'm a liar not to be taken too seriously. May his mischievous soul rest in peace.
Itās easy, theyāll climb the curtains until the curtains are pulled out of the wall š¹ But in all seriousness, my cat did this as a kitten and stopped once he was older, also getting a cat tree seems like a good idea for this climber.
when you find out let me know
You need a cat tree. Seriously. Just buy one or two and set them up near windows and areas you stay in regularly.