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Originally Posted by Maximo  Your cat taught him? LOL 
Max was quiet until he was 6 months old. Everyone was determined to teach him how to bark.
If Gizmo is randomly barking, not out the window at something work on the "quiet" command. Or use "enough" firmly. If he complies, give him a small treat.
I let Max and Teddy bark at the doorbell, but if they don't stop, I announce that I am leaving. Then I leave the room and they quit.
There are several threads and I think a sticky post in the training forum with more ideas. |
Yes haha. My 10 yr old cat Lucy who used to sleep all day, has decided Gizmo belongs to her and doesn't want the other 2 cats to be his ferns. She knows his barking scares them, so as soon as I get up, so does Lucy :-) she sits right on the floor or anywhere for that matter, and growls and hisses at Gizmo while just calmly waps him on the head occasionly, continuing the growling and hissing, till she gets poor little Gizmo so worked up, that he barks and barks and barks. I will chase Lucy to go upstairs and as soon as I sit back down, here comes Lucy right back at it. This goes on all day and until Gizmos bedtime :-( as much and as many was I can think of to reprimand Lucy for getting Gizmo in this state, she just will not stop teasing him for anything.
What is funny is I found these sweet potato and pumpkin teething rings today for Gizmo, and once I gave him one of them, he ignored all of Lucy's tactics till he was done with the ring, which took him a couple hours to chew it up and eat it lol. I called my husband at work and told him to go back tomorrow and buy all they have HAHAHAHA. Also while Gizmo was eating this ring, one of my other cats Bruiser was able to walk right past Gizmo to the kitchen and to go potty, with Gizmo paying no attention :-) that was the first time EVER Bruiser has been able to walk through the same room as Gizmo and not get chased and barked at. Lucy was just sitting right next to Gizmo looking very annoyed, like she thought her puppy was broken hehehe.