From personal experience, I can tell you that cats can be trained.
With that said, you have to put time and patience into the training process. It will not happen over night.
The above picture is a cat I fostered because it kept biting the original owner. His name was Gabriel and he was not an angel.
Gabriel did not like to be petted and thought he was running the show, meaning he was an alpha cat.
I will now explain the day I went to get Gabriel. I had to drag him out from under furniture while I was wearing canvas gloves and a long sleeved shirt. I then had to force him into the carrier while all the time he wanted to eat me.
We now had the task of retraining Gabriel so he understood he was no longer the alpha cat in the house.
Gabriel would chase after Kiki and Khaki and would not let us touch him. Training was an every day item and we knew we had to have a lot of patience which included being bit a few times.
Some of the methods we used were a metal can with coins inside that we would shake loudly when ever he did something wrong. If he looked like we was going to attack me I would hiss at him and use a compressed can of air to spray him with.
If we saw we was about to do something negative we would spray him with water. My best tool was a squirt gun.
To prevent him from jumping on top of tables and counters, we would use tin foil on top of the counters. I also used upside down mouse traps that I first loosened the spring not to hurt him. He did not like walking on tin foil and when he hit the mouse trap, it would jump into the air, frightening him.
This process took two years to complete totally. Within the first year, I became alpha cat to Gabriel but he was still alpha to Betty. That changed within six months so we both were now alpha to him and he accepted Kiki and Khaki as equals.
Gabriel no longer bit us, did any bad behaviors, and even slept on our bed.
But for anyone else who came into our house, Gabriel was Alpha to them.
We also had to train all our cats at Kitty Village.
Most recently, we had to stop Orangey and Samantha from fighting.
It took a few months using the squirt gun method, but every time I caught them fighting or about to fight I let them have it. Remember, this is what they usually did when they saw each other.
Now they sleep and stay on the porch together.
You can do it! If you try.
Thank you for reading Kitty Village News.
S&B