Lady Gets Into A Huge Fight With Her Mom For Spraying Her Cat, Mom Accuses The Cat Of Abusing Her

"I am not going to let this cat come in and bully me!!!!"

Maryjane

• Published in Animal Stories
• August 31, 2023

Why is it still acceptable to sprinkle water on cats? You'll notice when searching online and interacting with individuals that squirt bottles are frequently used to correct or punish cats for undesirable behavior.

Even shelters and those who ought to know better continue to advise against using spray bottles or squirt guns. We need to modernize this archaic method of trying to educate cats to change their behavior in light of everything we now know about cats, learning, and behavior.

People who advocate for spray bottle use are correct in one respect: using a spray bottle may alter your cat's behavior, though not in the direction you intend. When you're not present, your cat may stop scratching the couch but resume the behavior on another piece of furniture.

Alternatively, your cat might cease gnawing on the plants once you leave the room. Or, until you're not around, your cat might cease jumping up on the kitchen counters.

Do you see what we're saying? In all honesty, spray or squirt bottles might not even be that efficient, and the OP of today's story knew that.

The problem here is that her mom decided she was going to spray her cat with a squirt bottle for asking for food in the middle of the night. The OP told her to just close the cat out of her room or take her to her own room, but the mom didn't listen as she kept spraying the cat.

The story's headline

The reason for the fight being that she started spraying my cat with a squirt bottle

"If she gets hungry overnight just leave her some hard food to placate her"

OP told her mom it was their spray bottle, which she took from the OP's room

"You're a b*tch for doing that to an innocent cat just because she wants food, you know that?"

"Spraying a cat with water because she's hungry. What is the matter with you?"

We've gathered a bunch of comments from other Redditors for you to read through below

They have helped the OP through a lot of stuff and clearly have intervened

Guess she'll have no problem with being subjected to the same treatment if she errs

Positive reinforcement is the best way to train your cat as the spray bottle is bad news

This redditor suggests for the OP to unscrew the top just enough to stay on the bottle but not hold any weight

This redditor suggests keeping the cat and the OP's mom far away from each other

Other than the fact that the cat gets squirted when he engages in certain behaviors and you are present, your cat won't necessarily associate its actions with the squirt bottle. This is because if you're not there, nothing happens.

So, while you're not around, the activity continues. This goes to show that spraying cats or any other animal for bad behavior isn't going to solve the problem.

Maryjane