Can I train my kitten to stay out of the kitchen......?

Question

AND my parents' bedroom??

Answer 1

Yes, start with gently guiding the kitten away from those areas. You might also try putting up a toddler gate into those rooms. If the kitten continues to go in those rooms, try shooting it with a water gun. This seems to work for mine. They can just hear me pick up the water gun and the shoot like lightening down the hallway and under the bed.

Answer 2

Yes, it can take work since it can be hard to supervise a cat 24/7 but it can be done. Keeping doors shut is the easiest way to keep them out. There are static devices you can put across the doorway to repel them. One thing I used was a toy spy alarm, (about $10 at target) it was a small device that had a small laser trip alarm that would blast out a loud noise if the beam was crossed. Supervising your cat as much as possible is important, you can use a squirt gun or shake can (some pennies in aluminum coke can) to deter them from the doorways. If you can confine the cat to one or two rooms when you can't supervise it this will help as well. Keep his toys, bowls and litterboxes as far away from the off-limits room as possible. You want him to consider his stuff in his territory and not in the offending territory.

Answer 3

Squirt the kitten with a water gun everytime you see him in the rooms you do not want him in. It's worked well for allot of the cats I've had. Except my new kitten loves water. With him I swat him with a loose rolled newspaper so it makes lots of scary paper sound (not to hurt just to scare with sound). Then lock him in the bathroom for a hour or so. He is starting to get the idea.

Answer 4

Put little pet gates on the door ways so your're kitty can stay out of the kitchen and the bedroom.

Answer 5

close your parents' door.
and you can't really train a cat to stay out of a kitchen. unless you take him out of the kitchen or stop him before he walks in. thats what i did when my cat was younger and now he hardly goes into the kitchen

Answer 6

You may want to try using citrus-scented cleaning products around your kitchen. Cats hate the smell of citrus, so I used orange-scented cleanser all over the hallway I wanted my cats to keep out of.

It's not foolproof, but it can help with behavioural training.

Answer 7

Those pet gates won't work because the cats are agile enough to jump over them. Keep the doors closed to those rooms or install doors if you don't have them. Even some of those pleated door curtains with magnetic catches for closing would work.

Answer 8

There are sound and static electricity devises you can get. They work when your not home, so it's probably the easiest way.

Screen doors can be put up inside the house.

Answer 9

Heheheh, no. You're just not well trained enough... just ask your cat!!!

Answer 10

good luck