So, one of my cats is a demon. She walks on everything, jumps on everything - kitchen sides, tables, up the curtains (although now she's bigger, she falls off them). We chase her off the sides and table when we see her doing it, and she knows she isn't meant to be there - I can tell by the way she looks at me, and scampers off if I happen to come in when she's on the side....
Yesterday she knocked over something reasonably valuable (of DP's) by trying to jump at it. It's an electical item, and we don't know yet if it still works or not. DP is mightily pissed off. He's also pissed off with me as he thinks the cats should be trained, like a dog might be, not to jump on things, on sides etc. He also thinks I was not sympathetic to him being so pissed off when the cat knocked this thing over. I said I was sorry (although I didn't break it myself), and that of course if the thing didn't work any more, I would replace it for him.
I should add the cats were mine before DP moved in. They are 18 months old, so fully grown. It's only one of them that is a problem in this way. The other one behaves like a normal cat, she lies around sleeping in the sun rather than constantly trying to jump/climb/knock things over.
I should add, DP being pissed off about this is a bit of a trigger for me - a previous partner of mine hated my previous cats so much that I ended up giving them away. He didn't last long after that as I massively resented him for it (amongst other issues). So I feel protective of these cats.
So my question is, can we train a cat not to do these things? If so, how? The only thing I can think of is to shoo her off things, and keep doors shut so she doesn't go into eg. the lounge and destroy things.
Any ideas?
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