Help needed

[Peregrine Falcon]

I need to train my cats to wipe their paws after coming through the cat flap. I have lost count of the amount of times I have wiped the kitchen floor clean today.

We are having our garage converted into a playroom/office and they keep making pawprints every time they come in. Would it be best to wait by the cat flap and grab each cat as it comes in and say "lets wipe your paws", then get a leg and assist them in wiping each paw in turn? Does clicker training work with cats?

 

[chilledoutpony]

Have a door mat directly after the cat flap so they have to walk over it and kinda dry their paws. I haven't attempted to train any of my cats, dogs or rabbits. The only trained animals are the horses-which yeah never listen. No animals listen anyway tbh😂

 

[Iwantakitten]

I have a door mat by the kitchen door which I was hoping would serve this purpose, however my little white puss uses it as a launch pad to propel herself through the cat flap and it generally ends up half way across the kitchen....

 

[Shady]

hah! that's funny SF, in my life i've had over 30 cats ( i have a huge passion for them!) i have yet to train any to wipe their feet, i follow their little muddy prints all over my house, on my clean clothes, bedding, toilet seat, laptop, shiny cooker... i can tell them apart by how fluffy or non fluffy they are, day we concreted the cellar floor they all got in and walked all over it and had a little party in there.
you are doomed to eternal washing i'm afraid! i have 2 big dogs aswell and i'm not actually sure what colour my floor is anymore.
a reeeaaallly big mat might help!

 

[Peregrine Falcon]

LOL, I've grown up with cats and the only training that has ever gone on with cats is them training humans to oblige to their every whim!!!!

One of ours turned himself inside out when I tried to dry him off last night before he jumped on the sofa soaking wet. Honestly you'd think I was trying to kill him. Stupid thing tried to leg out of the cat flap back out into the pouring rain which is what got him drenched in the first place. Thick cat!!!

Fortunately now, all building has finished.

 

[Antw23uk]

Our boys will let you towel them down if they come in wet but wiping paws? erm no! Cats have very sensitive hairs around their paws so you certainly shouldn't be rubbing them with a towel!
My advice would be to buy a super absorbent matt for infront of the cat flap and then just don't look at the floor too often, hahaa

 

[cava14una]

Have you thought of putting a scratching post near the cat flap bit of catnip sprinkled on it and hopefully claws stropped and paws cleaned in a oner