I'm surprised it took so long. My first run-in with a maskhole.

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70. I think the bad behavior prevails because nobody ever checks that bad behavior.

And I don’t mean “check” as in “investigate”. I mean it in the “checkmate” context. As in stopping or severely curtailing a negative or otherwise unwanted activity or pursuit.

Here, 11Bravo tells how he DID NOT abide a single nanosecond or molecule of such baseless bullshit. And the hapless recipient was evidently caught off-guard. Wasn’t expecting either
A) a comeback, or
B) a forceful public comeback.
And both were directly and unspinnably delivered, immediately.

I read in more than one cat book that if you have to correct bad behavior, you must do it immediately, so the cat connects the just-committed bad behavior with the response from you. If you delay, the cat won’t get the connection and will think he got shut out of your room because you were just being unreasonable.

Mind you, I’m no professional animal psychologist. But I’ve watched this gentle dominance-assertion/non-combative approach yield improved behavior, with no interruption in any tendencies toward affectionate behavior.

And blah-blah-blah!

Btw - no hitting or other adverse physical contact.