On Thursday of this week I finally was able to try the water on Pyrrha. This did not go as well as I had hoped. I give full details of what happened in the blog titled “Counter Kitty”. Anyways, she has been on pins and needles ever since. She has been extra jumpy and more psychotic than usual. I read this blog titled “when a cat is like a teenager” where they recommend putting them away in a different room until you are finished with what you are doing to avoid the situation from the start. Cats go through different stages, just like humans, and need to be disciplined differently at different stages. We have figured out that she is at the stage where she does not want to listen to us; she just wants to do what she wants. At this stage it is also harder to teach them new lessons. This is the stage that is similar to teenagers. She has not got back on the counter since Thursday so hopefully the water worked. If we find that it did not work, we will try putting her in a different room while we are in the kitchen. I will let you know how this works if we are forced to do this. I do not think that closing her in a room will be as traumatic to her as the water, but I do think that she will be upset with being closed in a room. She is an extremely sensitive cat and hates being punished, yelled at, or forced to do anything she does not want to do.
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