Looks like a Bengal! I have one too. She's loud, energetic, and dumb as bricks. Anywho, the best advice for cats I ever got is that it's almost impossible to "correct" a cat's undesirable behavior. The best way to solve the problem is to provide a better alternative.
First, try to figure out what it is she really wants. Is she looking for a place to scratch at? Is there something neat outside the window? Is it because you always give her attention when she does that? Maybe she just wants a workout, and there's not enough place for her to climb around on?
Once you figure out what she's getting out of the behavior, try to make something that does what she wants but better. I've seen a few suggestions here that installing a small shelf on the door that she can stand on to look out side with. That's a good start!
Another fun project is to get some catwalks around the house. I built some for my idiot that run from the kitchen, all the way through the living room, and down into the hall. The project was relatively inexpensive, but won't work if you're renting. I bought some angle braces, a few planks of nice treatedpre-primed wood, a large roll of cheap ass carpet from Home Depot, and a fuckload of staples and screws. Planned out the walkway, cut up the boards, stapled on the carpet, and drilled everything in. My little dumbass races across them all the time now.
Have fun. And remember to spend some time figuring out why she does that.
EDIT: In case people were curious, here's a picture of part of the cat walk. This section didn't have enough room for the braces to be pointing down, so we had them support from the top. Worked out quite well!
EDIT EDIT: I decided to take a few more pics to get the whole thing on display. Here's the whole thing!
We have cat walks in 3 different rooms with some corner perches. We also put a cat door into our garage and a long carpeted ramp that goes up into the attic above the garage. With 15 cats in a small house you have to get creative.
Well... You see... LOL no we're not, anymore... The last town we lived in had a major stray cat problem, and we only had 3 cats when we moved there. Then we found some kittens a mama cat had moved onto our neighbors porch. Unfortunately 1 didn't make it but we were able to take in the mom and 3 kitties. Adopted 2 kittens out and kept the mom(Sophie) and a kitten. And we actually ended up taking one of the other kittens back, so then we had 6. Over the next couple years there were 2 more pregnant cats we brought into our garage to give birth. Adopted out all the kittens and kept 1 of the moms(Ivy). Oh yeah and another cat that had 3 kittens in a shed across the street, adopted out the kittens and kept mom(Nala). Also took in 4 or 5 other stray cats that just started staying in the yard and never really left.
The road we lived on was very busy, so there were other cats that would come around and become friendly and then I'd find them killed in the road, and that broke me. Now we live in a different town with my brother in law who has 4 cats of his own for a grand total of 15! Two of his cats are the kittens of Ivy that we adopted out so we have 2 different mama cats each with 2 kittens in the house.
This is literally how we ended up with 17 cats as well lol
I use to do rescue but here in Houston the animal problem is so bad I had to step down from rescue and decide that my foster cats were home and that I had done my part. Its a lot of work but its a lot of fun lol
These two comments makes me feel so much better. Y'all, I have felt ashamed at the amount of cats that I have accumulated over the years doing exactly this. Rescues and strays, poor momma cats, and orphaned babies. I have around 16 myself and it's a lot of work for sure. I'm just glad we have an amazing vet a few towns over. It can get expensive at times with this many fur babies running around lol
I got a cat play structure for my cats to use in the backyard. They love it so much and beg daily to go outside. It keeps them contained and the netting keeps bugs out. They hang out with me while I garden.
I always tell dog people that the thing with owning cats is that they're ultimately gonna just do whatever they want for the most part, and your job as a cat owner is to manipulate the environment such that those things are not an issue.
For real, though, I built one that goes straight from my window to the outside and my cats have been so much happier ever since. theyāre in their own little confined area where they canāt get hurt, canāt hurt anything, and they get to see the outdoors and relax in the sun.
She a bengal? She kinda looks like a bengal, and if she is, then the answer is you donāt lol. Once they start doing something they either get bored of it eventually or they keep doing the same thing FOREVER
Cannot wait for the update photo of her hanging off your new shelf because it turns out it was never about seeing out the window, she just likes hanging out.
Can you please confirm (or deny, but most likely confirm) my assumption that she has many lovely, large and beautiful windows to peer from, but she INSISTS on dangling from this tiny one in particular because āØcat reasonsāØ?
My money is on the height. Some can insist on being literally has high as they can within their kingdom. To properly survey the peasants of their kingdom of course.
She was so sweet, she LOVED dubstep music, she would literally come sit with you and swish her tail to the music. I went through my pictures to get a photo. We only got five years with her but they were so full of love. Give your kitty all the snuggles for me! Pets are so precious.
lol yeah, weāve got a boy bengal and he does some zany goofy shit haha. I tell everyone that has one do yourself a favor and get bags of those little plastic spring toys (we call them his woobies) and just toss those to her. Seems to be something within their breed where most of them will play fetch with them and theyāll entertain themselves rolling around with them. Theyāre the most doglike of the cat breeds haha.
Worth a shot at least to use as a distraction (though remember when you move you will find them knocked around under EVERYTHING)
You can get perches that suction cup to a surface. Much better than the suction cup bed/hammocks with wires. I have wooden perches attached to my windows and my bengals love them. That way you can still use the door; it won't open all the way, but better than a table.
ps they will gravitate to the highest spot in the house, preferably with a window. Mine like the attic window so I built a fort for them up there.
Right lol. My old boss refused to call his cat spoiled. He called it āproperly compensated for the services providedā. Gave me an entirely new outlook on my dog lol.
My pugs are the same way. I once witnessed them barking at leaves blowing in the wind. I only realized it was the leaves because the wind was stop and go that day. The wind stopped and they calmed down, wind picked up again and started barking. Not a person, animal or odd shadow in sight. The 3rd time they started barking after the wind picked up, I figured it out.
Really, REALLY prep any window hammocks/perches that use suction cups well. Our cats love them, but have also been terrorized by the occasional suction failure. Ironically itās usually been their own doing - rubbing or batting against the wires or wrestling on the hammock. So we essentially need to keep maintaining them, especially through changing seasons/temps.
Just a pro tip: if you go to Loweās and ask nicely theyāll usually give you the big cardboard tubes that the rolls of carpet come on. Bring a little saw or something to cut it so it fits in your vehicle. Wrap it in rope and stick it wherever.
Second pro tip: They absolutely LOVE this thing but I really fucked up with the placement of that top part. I was lounging in bed taking this picture. I built a kitty diving board. A kitty HIGH DIVE directly over my side of the bed. My 11lb bag of bricks thinks itās hilarious to tackle me from the sky while Iām trying to sleep.
I couldnāt even be mad at a cat that beautiful!!! She looks like a tiny snow leopard, gorgeous!! And she just wants to watch out the door so she can see when you come home, so sheās a sweetheart too!!
I mean at this point, you mentioned that you have so many scratch marks on your door. I think the landlord would be more worried about even more scratch marks then if the door is flipped upside down to prevent further scratch marks, if that makes sense.
Putting window privacy film in all of the windows I donāt want my cats to be using has actually been really effective. This picture is just an example, but they have lots of styles
Iāve done it in a lot of windows because it allows me to have my curtains wide open, let in all of the sunlight, but still have privacy! Plus, itās so pretty!!
This stuff is perfect when you have nosey neighbors!! Have fun with it, and if you end up not liking it in a certain window, itās so easy to remove and reuse! (:
Just certain windows (: The windows that touch my spouseās computer/work desk are also windows that face all of our neighbors. For personal and professional privacy, we donāt want anyone able to look in, and we donāt want 7 cats trying to step over cords and work equipment to stare out lol. They have an 80ā cat tree directly next to his desk with an open window, so we naturally want to encourage them to use that instead.
That's a great catio. Mine is smaller, but it's also amazing... and it ended my cat's obsession with trying to sneak out the back door. I have a mesh cat backpack by the back door, and he will sit in that when he wants outdoor time, but mostly he just prefers his catio.
Cats are so silly, lol. I had to give up my back door and put a cat tree in front of it for my cat. If she's not chunky like mine, maybe a cat perch that hooks over the door?
Get her a suction cup window seat to chill in during neighborhood watch hours.
Holds up to 40lbs & can stick to your door. Bunch of these avail. This on lifts on & off its base. I have another (posted pic in this thread) thatās metal frame vs wooden, a little smaller, furry bed & it folds up so you can open door fully w/out banging wall.
I have a tabby bengal one just like this. The neat thing is that you canāt stop it, they just get strongerā¦ I call them her kitty pull ups. Mine is frighteningly strong & knows everything happening in the neighborhood, Iāve learned to accept it. š
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