How To Ensure Your Pets Keep Off The Furniture

Keeping pets off your new furniture is not an easy task, as any one with experience in the mater will confirm. Like it or not, pets seem to have a fascination with jumping on your bed, lounging on your sofa and even exploring your wardrobe every now and then. It would be fine if they just sat nicely and were clean, but as we know this is often not true of pets. Instead they claw at your bedding, chew up your couch and get mud all over your lovely white wardrobes. Don’t keep pulling your hair out though, here are some tips on keeping the pesky pets off.

Training. It is only by making sure your pets are trained well that you will ensure they keep off your expensive living room and bedroom furniture. Training your pets from a young age is the best way as they tend to become more and more stubborn as they get older. You should instill the idea in your pets that furniture is for the use of people and not them. But if you do chose to let your pets on the furniture, you should at least train them to listen to you when you tell them to get down.

Pet repellents. If training your pets was never on the agenda and now they respect you as much as their fleas do, you’ll need to tackle the problem head on. You can buy certain powders and sprays that cats, dogs and other animals simply detest. These tend to have quite citrusy smells that are pleasant to humans but are too much for animals with sensitive smell.

Discipline. If you have trained your pet then they will respond better to discipline, but any animal will learn if you go about it the right way. This doesn

How To Train A Kitten To Use A Litter Box

Whether you are bringing your kitten home for the first time or if your cat has had a litter of kittens it is important to train a kitten to use a litter box from the beginning. By doing this your new little addition will see the use of a litter box for its toilet as the normal place to go and will continue to use it throughout its life.

If your kitten has just come from a cat that is itself litter box trained then the likely hood is that the kittens