• real_squids@sopuli.xyz
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    6 days ago

    Mine are trained to understand that hissing = wrong, the kind you do when inhaling with your teeth clenched. Can recommend, you’re very unlikely to make that sound by accident and afaik cats are great at picking up similar sounds (so it gets their attention better)

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      5 days ago

      One of mine hisses all the time. She’ll hiss and then slow blink. We say that she’s swearing and has a potty mouth, because she grew up in the streets. If I hiss at her she doesn’t flinch, so I have to physically move her from doing something I don’t like.

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      6 days ago

      Mine are also trained this way, although I do feel bad sometimes when two of them are quietly chilling on the couch while the third is climbing on my keyboard and when I hiss they all flinch and look at me