hi guys welcome back to my channel in
this video i'm going to show you how to
train
your stubborn cat to use a kitty door
now i wanted to do this video because i
do a lot of videos on lifestyle topics
and definitely include our animals and
things i run into with them
and for this particular situation we
wanted to get our kitty box
outside so it would just be so much
cleaner in our master bath that's where
we've had the cat box for the past
year at our house and we wanted to move
it outdoors
so we went ahead and purchased a kitty
door
on amazon i'll go ahead and link that in
the video
i wouldn't recommend buying one at your
local like home depot or farm supply
because they're super expensive you can
get one for a fraction of the cost on
amazon and they work just
great um i was really surprised at how
hard it was to train our cat to get to
use the kitty door
i always had cats growing up and it was
super easy
and when i went to find videos online
that might be helpful in training
there wasn't much in the way of training
videos so i'm going to show you how we
got our cat to use it it did take her
about a month
so don't give up be patient and i'll
show you some techniques to get through
this training period
all right guys so the rest of this video
is going to be done on the floor
so i can show you how to best train your
cat to use the cat door
so for starters i just want to show you
the kind that we have
and it does have this locking mechanism
which i think is pretty useless because
we're never planning on having this
loft and it does have a magnet on the
bottom
so this is a pretty secure one so i like
it that it's kind of airtight you don't
like
get bugs and like potentially rodents in
um although we did have a squirrel get
through
this when we were in the middle of
training and i'll tell you why
um but we did have a magnet on this and
you do have these locking clips so we
always leave it unlocked
and the magnet does provide a little bit
of tension on the door so it is
pretty hard for a smaller animal to push
through it
so um what we did when we first
installed it
and you can do this with the door closed
is just put some treats
around the door and especially the other
side has a little sill
so um i put treats and cat foods on that
cats want to be able to spread their
scent on things to get more comfortable
with them
so it's a great way for them to just get
close to the area that they're going to
be entering and exiting
so you can do the treats and the cat
food by this area
and you can do that for several days
until they kind of get their scent on
the area
or you can start with fully opening
the door and putting the treats around
it and how you would keep the door
completely open is we just got some on
thick painters tape this is like two and
a half
inch three inch tape and i went ahead
and just popped
the door open
and then taped it up from there
so you can invest in some like plastic
hooks if you wanted to
um if you wanted this to look nicer and
i can
have those slide in the video right now
so you know what i'm talking about
they're just the ones that have the
sticky on the back
and and those you could stick right on
the back of the door
and then have another one here and put
like a string type thing
if this tape was just not attractive to
you
so when we first started off you're just
going to want to have
the door completely open like this
and again use the treats and like even
feed your cat in this area
so they get used to putting their scent
on it and
get used to being around it because they
will notice even the slightest
difference
in a door and feel uncomfortable being
around it
so once your cat's used to the door
and if they start going in and out
that's great on their own
if they don't you're going to want to
put them on the other side of the door
and leave some cat food when it's
feeding time and you know they're going
to be hungry
or some cat treats on the other side and
just encourage them
to come on through if that doesn't work
just keep proceeding with um putting
treats and foods around the door
and hopefully that will lead them
through
um and if you have a good relationship
with your cat you can definitely give
them some encouragement and kind of like
push them through which i definitely did
with our cat because i got a little bit
um impatient with training her and she
was really hesitant walking through the
door
so i just like put her food on the other
side she wouldn't get it on her own
so just go ahead and manually push her
through the door
and she eventually started going on her
own
so once your cat is and this is why i
like the tape method
because it's just super easy once your
cat is comfortable
with that height you're going to want to
slowly start lowering the door
and i would wait like four to five days
with each level and definitely don't
move a litter box or something like that
where there's a big commitment
outside until your cat is fully trained
i don't want
any accidents inside so we still have
the cat box inside because
she's just now getting used to going
through the door completely on her
own so i wanted to do this video while i
was still fresh in my head
but i still am not confident moving the
cat box out once i see her consistently
going through without getting
scared i'll be moving it outside so
lower the door same thing treats and
food
and our cat goes indoor outdoors so she
knows when it's feeding time and when
we're home
and she's like hungry at night so it's a
great time to put the food on the other
side of the door because they're already
expecting it they're probably hungry at
that point
and so it's going to encourage them to
come on through
so then you're just going to proceed in
lowering the door
and once i got to about
i would say where the door was like
three inches a jar
she started getting more hesitant going
under
and it took longer and what i did at
this point was i did
like manually push her under and i would
tape the door
going either direction just so she could
get used to
both so that the way that this one works
is it does flap
both ways and and so i would practice
and i would definitely
push her through so she could get used
to
the feeling of the door on her back
that's what she really didn't like and
she was really hesitant about
she felt like it was going to slam on
her
um once she was comfortable doing this
when it had that opening for her
we did drop it all the way down and if
you have another pet to show as an
example
that's a great resource to use i
definitely had our small dog
go through the door and she would watch
that and i do think that made her a bit
more comfortable
um so if you have a small pet you can
encourage them with treats to go through
the door
and show your cat how to do it so once
the door was
all the way closed at this point she was
like no
i'm not doing that like it's completely
closed i'm not getting through
and at this point i did just take her
and
um push her into the door so she could
feel what it felt like
and then um also at night time when she
was ready to eat i
put her food right here open this a
little bit so that she could like smell
the food and stuff
and and i would leave her outside and if
she didn't come in then she didn't eat
so
it's not like we didn't feed her for
days on end but i think
that happened her one night she didn't
eat and the next night or morning when
she was super hungry
that's when she came through the door so
if you just give them a little bit of
encouragement
don't starve your cat not saying don't
feed them i'm just saying that if
they're hungry enough they will come
through the door
and you know with all this training
beforehand
they're going to know that they can make
it through they're just going to be a
little bit scared
and they need that extra push so if you
have any questions or comments
definitely leave them below i hope this
video was helpful
and if you like videos on just like
animal training
lifestyle we have several domestic
animals and also farm animals
so i'll be sure to post more and we'll
see you on the next one
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