Animals: Today, my parents decided to "discipline" my kitten by spraying...

By scars - 16/12/2014 15:01 - United States - Edwardsville

Today, my parents decided to "discipline" my kitten by spraying her with water. This somehow managed to completely un-train her, and now she's back to being the compulsive biter she was when I first brought her home. FML

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By littlespoon - 04/02/2010 08:40 - United States

Today, my girlfriend decided it would be a funny idea to spray me with a hose while I was holding a kitten, showing her how cute we were. Needless to say, now I'm covered head to toe in cat scratches. FML

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By Anon127 - 12/06/2012 02:40 - United States - Taunton

Today, I learned that instead of training my cat, she has been training me. She now refuses to drink anything but running tap water, and yowls loudly early in the morning at my bedroom door to be fed. FML

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By Js2cool - 29/09/2015 02:32 - United States - Fitchburg

Today, I went to clean my cat's litter box, not realizing she was in it. As I lifted the top half of the litter box up, she sprayed me with piss. FML

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Let cats be cats

By Anonymous - 28/02/2022 06:00

Today, I disciplined my cat for meowing too loudly in my apartment and disturbing neighbors by picking her up by the scruff. She then proceeded to scratch the ever living crap out of my hand, now it looks like Wolverine got a hold of me. FML

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Needs more training

By catlady'sdaughter - 03/07/2020 17:01

Today, my mom read online you could train cats to relieve themselves in the toilet. Without reading any further, she took away the litter tray. My house reeks of cat piss and shit, and she still refuses to give the cat its litter tray back, insisting it'll work eventually. FML

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Poor little guy

By CatLady - 09/06/2011 07:20 - United States

Today, my boyfriend and I tried to give his cat medicine. Unfortunately, it reacted in a way it never had before: clawed his arms to bits, bit him so hard a tooth fell out, peed everywhere, including on me, and pooped on the carpet. FML

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Wake up, human!

By inveralaska - 16/06/2016 21:22 - United Kingdom

Today, I got a kitten. She decided to sleep on my bed, waking me up periodically during the night by biting my face to make sure I was still alive. FML

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By angrypetowner - 29/03/2016 03:24 - United States - Warrensburg

Today, I tried to train my cat to scratch the scratching post by giving her a treat every time she used it, but she took that as getting a treat every time she scratched something. Now, not only does she scratch all my furniture, but she also meows for a treat while doing it. FML

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Bathtime

By BadCatOwner - 25/06/2023 10:00

Today, my 11 year-old daughter claimed I'm a terrible cat parent. Why? Because in the 4 months that we've had the cat, I haven't given him a bath. Our strictly indoor kitten lives in attack mode, and would paint the walls with my blood if I attempted it. FML

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Pure evil

By Anonymous - 29/04/2015 16:06 - South Africa - Pinetown

Today, my sister's kitten walked away from his litter box, jumped onto the table, looked me dead in the eyes, then peed directly onto my laptop. FML

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panicsdisaster 17

Wednesday 17 December 2014 0:24

that's because she is sensitive and doesn't trust people again.

devildog562 33

Wednesday 17 December 2014 0:32

Bite her back. At least it worked with my child.

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melooters 11

Wednesday 17 December 2014 10:52

Spray them with water and then hit them with powder filled pillows. And **** up their washing machine so it's back down to hand washing their clothes

mrmcleod 29

Wednesday 17 December 2014 16:02

Do you use your hands as a toy? This generally leads to cats compulsively biting as they start seeing it as such. Try using a wand, laser or other toy when it's play time and refrain from using your body for anything other than feeding, cleaning, petting etc. Hope that helps OP.

BUMFLUFF89 4

Wednesday 17 December 2014 18:14

Spray your parents in the face every time they make an unwanted comment or a mistake

stayr4d 12

Thursday 18 December 2014 23:56

Maybe you shouldn't be an asshole to your cat and she'd listen.

TallMist 32

Monday 27 April 2015 21:58

Why do you say the OP is being asshole? It's the parents that sprayed the cat and, from the FML, the cat was naturally a biter, or at least the cat was when the OP picked the cat up. Stop trying to frame the OP for this, you have no indication whatsoever they did anything wrong to that cat.

ztress 10

Friday 19 December 2014 1:53

Thats called animal abuse. You're parents are assholes

Shade1982 20

Friday 19 December 2014 11:00

Spraying a cat with water is not animal abuse, get off your high horse.

marisjavz 2

Monday 29 December 2014 1:20

To discipline a cat you need to pinch her ear or grab her scruff. That's how a mother cat does it. I've got a rough one myself at home aswell and when he scratches the couch (or something else he isn't allowed ) i just have to grab his ear and he's calm. For now i advise to play allot with your kitten to make him feel safe again.