All right, 30 days have passed and you
are now
ready to move on to phase 3:
Staying in the crate.
If the first two phases were about
patience and respecting your cat's speed
and boundaries, this new phase is about
CONSISTENCY.
You want to repeat every single step,
every day,
exactly the same way. You really need to
keep in mind
that it is NOT ABOUT THE CARRIER.
Let's go over to step 6
and let's start with the last phase of
crate training your cat.
When your cat goes to eat, you're going
to carefully
close the door while still holding it
in your hand (remember to leave space for her tail!),
open it again and then you're going to
walk away as usual. You're going
to be thinking “Oh my god, my cat's going
to get startled. She's not going to want
to go in there. I'm going to go backwards! 😱”
You're not! You are establishing a habit
and the habit is
IT'S NOT ABOUT THE DOOR! If your cat is
not all the way in because they're
a long cat, it's not a problem. Just bump their
butt,
open the door again, and walk away. The first
few times your cat is probably going to
take a step back and go “WHOA! What just
happened?”
but you walked away, so it was not about
the door! It might have been a mistake
for all they know. You're not gonna look
at your cat. You're not gonna be in the
area.
Just let it go! Get them used to
the feeling of something behind them.
You know that you're ready to move on from
step 6 to step 7
when your cat: first of all, does nothing
when you touch them,
they continue eating “It's not a big deal,
I'm used to it!”;
then sometimes they will bring their
butt
forward. Step 7 is
teaching your cat to turn around in the
carrier. You're going to need an
extra little cat dish. If you don't have
it, you can easily
clean the lid of a jar and use that as
one of the cat dishes. Here's how you're
going to set up your two cat dishes:
one of them is going to have just enough
that they can take two or three bites
and then they're done with it; the second
dish is going to have the larger portion
of your cat's meal.
You're going to walk to the carrier with
both dishes
(and your cat following you cuz - you know - they’re hungry beasts😸), you're going
to place the dish with the smallest
amount
in the very back in the right hand
corner (just like in step 5 and 6). When your cat goes in,
you're going to close the door (leave space for their tail!) and
you're going to hold
the door shut (while still leaving space for their tail) for a second. Your cat
might try to come back out, or she might do
nothing until she’s finished.
Eventually she’s going to (figure out that she needs to) turn around.
As soon as you see her turn around,
so that her butt is not pushing
against the door and her
head is facing, you you're going to put
the second dish
in front of them right inside of the
carrier. You're going to open the door,
put the dish in and you're going to walk
away. YES,
YOUR CAT IS GOING TO GET OUT OF THE
CRATE AT THIS POINT. It's okay
because you kind of surprised them. You
upped the ante. They were not
expecting it, but it's not a big deal. You're
going to repeat this step
continuously until your cat turns around
and starts eating right away.
You're now on the final stretch. Step 8
is about
establishing the habit: once your cat is
used to eating a little bit in the back
and then turning around and eating in
the front, you can actually
stop placing food in the first dish in the carrier.
You’ll still have the first dish, but now there is
nothing in it. You only feed your cat
with the food that is in the second dish.
Here is the extra in this step you're
going to count
to five. So this is how it's going to go:
First dish,
cat goes in, turns around, second dish,
close the door, hold it close count to
five...
1... 2... 3... 4... 5...
open the door, and move away.
Again, it's not about the door, but it's
about getting used to it
and adding a little bit of that time
that the door
stays closed. Now, remember, this is really
important:
DON'T LOCK THE DOOR! Leave it open.
Hold it in your hand. Just hold it closed
and then reopen it.
You will know that you're ready to move
on to step 9 when your cat
doesn't pause on the second dish anymore.
It will probably take a couple of days
or it might actually only take one day
because
we know how smart our cats are! So once
your cat just kind of
- you know - looks at the dish but doesn't
even try to eat, you are
ready to move on to Step 9: locking
the door of the carrier.
This is the step where you're going to
teach your cat that the door locking
does not mean that they
are locked in there forever.
This is key in this step. You are
going to repeat everything you were
doing in step 8
but instead of counting to five you're
going to close the door
lock it with whatever locking mechanism
you have, you're going to wait for your
cat to finish eating,
then you're going to open it again.
I always accompany my hand movement with
the word “IN”.
I'm always talking to my cats, so usually
I'll
say “Okay”, you know “go on IN! Get your
food!”
or “IN you go” and I kind of emphasize it,
so that they connect my hand
movement
and my words to getting in the crate.
Okay you've made it you're finally at
Step 10.
The only thing you're going to do here
is getting your cat used to staying
in the locked crate for longer periods
of time,
and you're going to start with super
small baby steps!
In step 10, once your cat is used to
being in a crate and eating with the
door closed,
you are going to start counting when
your cat is done eating (instead of right away as in step 9).
You're going to count to five.
1… 2… 3...4… 5… and you're going
to open the door. After you've done this
for about a week,
you're going to up the count to 10. You
can also make this step
really fun: you can play games with your
cat. For example,
you can close the door of the carrier,
you can wait for your cat to finish
eating, and then you can
walk to the window, touch the window, walk
back, open the door.
Or walk to the door of the room you're in,
walk back, and open the door.
Play this game consistently, so if you
chose to go to the window,
make sure that you do it three or four
days in a row so that your cat gets used
to it and it's no big deal.
You will know that you're done with this step because
your cat will finish eating and then she
will patiently wait for you to open the
carrier door again.
Congratulations🎉!!! If you made it to this
step, YOUR CAT
IS CRATE TRAINED! This is so awesome! Just
repeat this every day, every time you're
feeding them,
and this will establish the lifelong
habit
that will make your cat comfortable in
their crate. If you made it to this step,
take a picture save it in your phone in
that special folder,
and then go ahead on instagram tag me
and share it with me.
I'm really looking forward to seeing
your progress!!! So, quick summary
of the phases that we went through:
Phase 1
is SEEING THE CARRIER. Phase 2 is
EATING IN THE CARRIER
The key here is PATIENCE! Take your time
on the first two phases!
Phase 2 is STAYING IN THE CARRIER
CONSISTENCY is key here.
Every day the same thing! Try to be as
boring, as robotic as you can be
when you're working on phase 3
Now I gave you
a little bit of a sense of how long you
should take for each step, but that
really depends on
you and your cat! Your boundaries, your
cat's boundaries,
your relationship need to develop.
It is a new thing for you to work
together this way
and it takes a while to establish.
Sometimes, with some cats,
in three days they're set. Sometimes it
can take two or three months, but that's
not a big deal because it's not about
the crate, it's not about the door, it's
not about locking them in,
IT'S ABOUT ESTABLISHING THE HABIT. Think
of that and let that carry you through.
I made a printable for you that has the
complete guide
on everything we talked about, and it has
a section that is printable that you can
put
on your fridge so that you can remind
yourself where you're at
(this is why i kept telling you take
a picture! Because
- you know - we all need to feel that we've
accomplished something!) So
go ahead and check it out, it's in the
description. And as you're going
through this, just remember:
TRUST THE PROCESS, IT WILL WORK FOR YOU!
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