Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Two and half is old enough to learn consequences. Are you waiting until your cat is seriously injured or attacks your boy before you actually do something?
My daughter is 16 months old and we have two cats. We have been training her since she could move how to interact with our cats. If she gets rough I tell her clearly no, usually it's tail pulling. If she continues the behavior I remove her from the cats with another clear no.
Most of the time we don't have issues, but if we do I'll take the cats side. I've known them longer.
We also built shelves and a window ledge for our cats to have an escape route from DD's grabby hands while still being able to stay in the living room with us.
OP here. Curious what you mean by "before you do something?" When you tell your daughter "no" and remove her from the cats with another clear "no," would you consider that "doing something" or not? I'm doing lots of somethings (as outlined in my original post...are you under the impression I'm not giving any consequences?), but haven't hit on the right thing. Hence this post to ask for advice.
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