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Originally Posted by gracielove  I have feral cats as well. They don't like visitors or loud noises. When Gracie was still pretty young I found a littler of young kittens in the woods. The mom was feral so I brought the kittens inside and the mom followed me. She wouldn't come in at first but hung at the door. I finally got her inside and she finished raising the kits in my home. It took a lot of patience working with the mom but it all worked out. Anyway, the mom saw Gracie as a threat to her kittens and would chase her if she caught her near them. She chased Gracie under the recliner one time and I had to save her from certain injury! Gracie learned not to mess with Mother Cat!
Gracie had already been with a different littler of kittens when I first brought her home and she had become accustomed to bossing them around and herding them. Their mom was much more laid back. But gracie saw the kittens as play mates and she is still good friends with the ones I kept.
It sounds like your cat is trying to establish her position in the home. She wants Gizmo to know that she rules. They may eventually become friends but right now it is a battle of wills.
Do you have the kind of frame for your pee pads that locks down tightly over the pads? Our kittens did sometimes shred a pad or two but I never had one that enjoyed ripping them out of the frame. Cats are able to be trained. If you can't find any other way then get yourself a good long range squirt bottle that you can spray the cat with when she gets near the pad. You will have to keep a close watch for a few days but once she gets it a few times she will abandon the game.
There is a thread here on YT about teaching your dog not to bark. I understand that the cat is trying to torment Gizmo but he has to learn to listen to you when you say "no more!" When Gracie was young I would keep a rolled up newspaper near by at all times. With kittens around she had lots of opportunity to get excited and start barking up a storm. I would tell her "NO MORE!" and if she did not listen I would bang that paper on my hand or a near by table. It got her attention and she would stop. It may take a bit of repetition until he learns you mean business but he will learn if you are consistent.
When the cat learns that Gizmo has begun to just cool his jets around her the fun will be over and she will move on to something else. Never a dull moment!  |
I got a squirt bottle yesterday :-) I know it won't work on Lucy because she actually takes baths with me lol, but it did work for Gizmo barking at her last night. So far yesterday I just yelled at Lucy every time she went near the pad, and she walked away. Today is hopefully not going to be harder, because I have to leave for a while to go to a dr appt., but if all else fails I'm going to contact Jackson fron that show my cat from he**, I get he's never had a case like this lol.
My aim as far as Lucy and Gizmo, I'm just going to work on training Gizmo to ignore her teasing , and with Lucy and the potty pads, well that might take more work, as Lucy is older and set in her ways. I think I figured out that, she started removing the potty pads once Gizmo was allowed to go out for walks, I think she's jealous. And yes she's pulling them out of the whole pad holders. I even bought this thick foam tape to put around the edges of the frame to hold them down tighter, but she still gets them out :-( the pad issue is going to be the harder issue to resolve. The teasing I think, I can train Gizmo to ignore. I just need to figure out the potty pad situation mostly. Wish me luck :-)