Angelus Gaston wrote:reuxci wrote:heya! any tips on training a rowdy kitten? she's rather feisty and really wild, and she eats and scratches everything. i'm using a spray bottle for now, and i'm out of money for cat toys. what do i do?
(here she is. my baby)
You need toys to get rid of that energy otherwise she will stay hyper and destroy stuff.
Noctis my boy is the same and before I got played I made wands from bamboo canes and string with feathers. Rolled up tin foil balls to play fetch and even got toys from friends ( I paid them back unless they gave them to me ). He know mostly sleeps unless Zero wakes him up at 3am in the morning.
You can not fix problems with out addressing the issue which sounds like to much energy if you can burn that of you will find she will calm down.
i have to agree with this, my kitten runs around like crazy , she has a cat (8) and a dog (1 and a half) who she plays with and still needs a good hunting play to calm down(and a good suckle on my blankets but thats just her thing)
toys can be made out of alot of things, im planing a few my self.
one of my cats loves kicking toys so ill be making him a kickaroo with old fabric i have and a broken wand toy one like this.
a small pringles can and some rope can be used to make a scratching toy(planning this one , need surplys ill let you know how it ends up)
i know someone who put and bell in a toilet roll and stapled the ends then glued feathers on to it to make a bell toy, hoping to make one like it my self but changed to fit my cat.
i even make pom pom balls for my cats but they can only be used once we get the cat run finished as my sheltie finds it fun to pull them apart.
My brother once was playing with my kittne with a foil ball we had after it came off are dinner ,my kitten and dogs played with it for a good hour before i took it off them.
i know how costley toys can be kickaroos here are $15, while if i make my own im using things i allready have in a sewing kit costing me nothing .
someone at the shelter makes the cats there toys out of pretty much anything she can get, old zippers and fabric,bottle caps , for a while they included plastic forks (not anymore, someone higher up must have pointed out how that just is a no(tiny side note: this person is older then me and sees me as less knowledgeable because of it))