If you have an outdoor cat you may hope to learn how to train cats to use a cat door or how to ring a bell so that you realize they are ready to come in.
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I realize that there are times when I let my cats exterior that I may get busy and forget to check on them so I found a way for them to let me know that they are at the door all set to come inside. I live in an area that is too cold for a cat door (I have one going to the basement where the cat litter boxed are located) so I chose to find a way for them to signal me to open the door, something we wanted because of the ultimate cold we at times go straight through here.
Here is a very easy way for training your cats to let you know when they want to be let inside.
Simply take a small bell, one that is loud enough for you to hear, and swing it from a string right exterior the door. Make determined to show this to your cat numerous times and if you need to you can even add some catnip to the bell to motion to your cats.
You can gather a bell at any craft store for almost nothing. Using any small bells might even do great for you or your cat. Tie the bell or bells to a cord that hangs down low enough for your cat to reach de facto and then also attach a catnip toy or use catnip spray to attract your cat.
When ever the cat rings the bell to come in, you will want to give them a cat treat to let them know that they have done something worth rewarding. If your cat doesn't take to the bell level away, you may have to keep showing it to them to get them curious and sooner or later they will learn that you will come to the door to let them in when they ring the bell.
In the beginning, you might need to keep showing them the bell every time they go out or come in so that they begin to associate the bell with the door being opened for them. You might even want to begin with a bell inside the house for when they want to go exterior and this will help them to learn more fast that ringing the bell means that the door will be opened.
While I realize there will be times that you may not open the door just because you are not there or for any amount of reasons, your cat will still start to associate the bell with the door being opened.
If you live someplace where you can put in a cat door, this is one more selection you can use to let your cat go in and out when ever they want to. This will also depend on what other animals you may have in the home. One more hypothesize I choose not to have a cat door that leads outside, is I have a cat that can go exterior but she is edgy and I have be there to baby sit when she goes out so that she doesn't get scared and take off.
Although you can purchase a cat door at any pet store, you can also just make one yourself if you are good at creating stuff. We put the cat door to our basement in ourselves, plainly by cutting a small hole at the lowest of the door and putting a piece of plastic over it that they could de facto walk through.
If you wish to put in a cat door that goes outside, make sure you know what size you need to have for you cat to be able to fit conveniently straight through the opening. While a cat that is used to going exterior all the time will most likely shape out fast how to make use of the cat door, you may also need to know how to train cats to use this new door as well.
This ought to be a fairly easy process. One of the ways you can train your cat to use this door is to keep it open and use a toy to tempt your cat to go straight through from one side to the other. It should only take a consolidate of times of doing this before your cat is aware that they can go in and out as they please.
Once they have gone in and out a consolidate of times you will want to show them how to use the door by themselves when it is concluded and you can use the same process to do this. You may perhaps choose to use food to attract your cat to walk straight through the door and help them to push straight through the first few times but a lot of cats will take to this process pretty fast if they de facto want to be able to get outside.
With persistence and affection you can learn how to train cats to do just about everything.
How to Train Cats to Use a Cat Door Or Ring a Bell to Be Let Inside
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