Ignore your cat when she starts banging on the door pretend you re not hearing her or wear earplugs.
Stop cat opening lever door.
Prompted by a question from modern cat magazine reader emily i ve compiled a short list of tips for cats that are meowing at the door.
If you give in once in a while and open the door you re teaching her that her behavior is sometimes effective and she ll continue to for your attention.
Opening just wide enough to allow your cat to easily come and go this innovative latch keeps dogs and babies from helping themselves to kitty litter snacks or getting into the cat s food.
And keeping your kitty out of pantries basements and garages can prevent injury or accidental ingestion of harmful substances.
Change your door handles to round knobs the important ones anyway.
4 simple steps to stop your cat from meowing at the door.
It s the knoblock a simple little device designed to keep cats from opening lever style door knobs the foam piece slides over the lever preventing the cat from pulling on it and opening the door.
Seriously if you want to keep a door closed against the onslaught of cats make sure they the doors not the cats latch firmly and that the handles are not.
Keeping your cat from bedrooms can help reduce human allergies and ensure a good night s rest.
I also use old hair bands to keep the double doors on our.
If it really bugs you or mrs george i know how my wife is about cat fur a small hole drilled through both sliding doors up high out of cat reach and a nail inserted into the hole works great as for the folding doors a old style hook latch placed out of cats reach should do the trick.
Don t close any doors.
Lever style and bar handles provide the perfect paw catching area for dogs.
Don t respond to his meowing by clapping shouting moving him away or other negative reactions.
It will not take a dog long to learn that zealously putting his paw or mouth on the handle will make the door open.
Our abby cat could get almost anything open.
As a servant to many cats over the years the answer is simple.
Stopping access to the outdoors can help keep your cat safe from predators and cars.
That fixed our houdini.
This is a very interesting concept that could solve a common problem for cat owners.
Be firm and consistent and eventually she ll understand that her noisemaking won t work.