Teach Your Cat to be Obedient Inside

"Hi! I am Dr. Adrienne Mulligan, I own Camp Verde Veterinary Clinic, and I am here today on behalf of expertvillage.com to talk to you about cat obedience. For couches, for beds, for any other furniture in general, there are some other things on the market that are designed for it, they are little like shock pads that you can put on a couch, and when they jump on it they get like a light shock and they jump off, but you can also do things cheaper; or something I have seen work is the runners that put on your carpet, where you have a kind of narrow runner to go down the hallway. If you put that upside down, it has the little prongs, and those little prongs aren’t fun to walk on, so if a cat gets upon those little prongs, and it is not comfortable, they are going to jump back down. So that is something you would keep in your furniture all the time, and remove it when you are going to be using it, and so and the caveat to that is you cannot have it both ways. If you don’t want your cat on your couch, you cannot sit with your cat on your lap on your couch. So if you enjoy having your cat on your lap when you are watching TV, forget trying to teach it not to get on the couch."