Okay, first of all, he thinks the squirt-bottle is a game. Second, he has a scratching board and uses it as well. Third, whenever I yell at him to stop he does, but goes right back to it when I'm not around, and fourth, I am NOT going to have him declawed. How can I stop him from doing this?

my boyfriend has to give up his 2 cats. which me and him both love a lot. my parents say i cant keep them because of the leather couch and because of allergies. any way to help the allergies and the couch problem???

My family adopted this stray cat (a couple of years ago), and after we had him for a little while, he started peeing on our furniture/carpet. We first showed him the litter box, just to make sure he knew it was there and what it was for, that didn't help. We got him neutered, that helped for a while, but he started peeing again. We tried rubbing his nose in it and yelling at him when we would catch him, that didn't help. Recently he has been peeing on the same thing over and over again, an odomen (sp?) in the living room. I have been researching about how to get him stop, and I really believe it is behavioral, but i don't think he is being territorial with this surface because he doesn't sleep on it at all and he is very capable of accessing it. He usually sleeps on my mom's side of the couch or in the cat tower next to it, but he never pees on those. BTW I don't think the problem is physiological, but it is not completely ruled out. I don't think he pees on it to say he is mad at anyone because nobody ever uses it, so he can't associate it with anyone in the house. The litter box is cleaned constantly as two other cats live in the house, we have two boxes. I also don't think he is trying to say anything to other cats either, i think he already thinks he is the dominate one in the house. What do I do? I am sick of the smell. I find it very embarrassing and don't let people come into my home because I don't want them to smell my naughty cat. I want to get rid of him, but my mom loves him, and she is the only one he likes. I won't get rid of him if he stops, but i just can't take his piss anymore. All these years of smelling cat pee is freaking disgusting.

Recently I was holding my cat and she was laying on my arm. My mom had accidentally rattled the food dish in the kitchen and my cat got excited. Her nails went out and she sliced my wrist open as she jumped off me. It was really close to one of the veins sticking out from around my wrist and I decided that was just too close and maybe I should cut her claws since she is an inside cat and won't really need though (plus she is always tearing up the furniture and walls by clawing it). Are there any ways to subtley cut or dull the claws of my cat so she doesnt hurt me again?