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1. Cats: If you own a cat, or know someone who does, then you�re well aware of how

much they enjoy affection. But, if you want to come out of it unscathed, you better stick

with torso- and back-action only. You can forget about the paws or tail. And their bellies?

Me-ouch!

2. Dogs: Dogs, on the other hand, love belly-rubs. Like, really love them. Actually, you can�t

go wrong when it comes to petting your pup. Head and ears? Check. Back? Check. Chest?

Check! Nothing�s really off-limits; just don�t play too much tug-of-war with that

tail, and you�ll be golden.

3. Rabbits: Bunnies are like little hopping balls of cotton, and that�s pretty much

exactly how they feel to the touch, too. You can pretty much pet them everywhere, but steer

clear of their bellies. Just like cats, those are the real hop-stacle to navigate.

4. Goldfish: You�ve probably never thought about trying to pet a goldfish before. If

you�ve ever touched any kind of fish, you know their slimy scales aren�t exactly pleasant.

It�s safe to say that they�re not fans of being cuddled, either. If you really want

to go for it, you�ll have to catch one first. Good luck with that.

5. Chinchillas: Just looking at a chinchilla makes you feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside.

These little balls of fluff are super friendly and they don�t usually have any off-limits

areas to pet. The second you pet one, you�ll want to take it home (and chances are they

won�t mind).

6. Hedgehogs: Everyone who grew up in the 1990s will remember Sonic the Hedgehog�the

super fast, chili dog-loving, animated blue hedgehog who collected gold rings in all of

your SEGA video games? Real hedgehogs don�t have a need for speed (or power rings), but

they can be friendly, so long as you�re careful with them.

7. Pigs: Oink, oink! Wherever you�re rubbing them, little piggies will be happy. These

guys don�t seem to have too much of a preference for where you pet them, so long as they�re

getting attention. You might want to avoid their bellies and their legs, just in case.

Everything else makes them go hog-wild!

8. Snakes: These slithery fellows only accept pets from the bravest of the brave. A lot

of people have ophidiophobia (if you�ve ever seen the 1997 flick Anaconda, you�ll

know why), but in reality, they�re far less scary than their scales and fangs lead people

to believe� so long as they�re not the venomous kind, of course. Still, you�re

better off letting them slither around their tanks on their own terms than trying to cuddle

them.

9. Bears: Okay, so these guys may not be the most appropriate animals on this list when

it comes to cuddling tips, but let�s face it, they are cute� when you watch them from

afar. That said, the only bear you should be snuggling is your teddy.

10. Bugs: Creepy crawlies aren�t really known for being very squishable, unless you�re

trying to actually kill them as opposed to cuddle them. Thankfully, most of them don�t

intend to harm you unless you�re terrorizing their nests or they�re fond of your blood

(lookin� at you, mosquitos). That said, follow this advice: no hugs for bugs. Best

to just shoo them away!

11. Horses: These majestic animals are famously graceful and they just love attention. They

are known to be a bit skittish, though, so you should stick to where they can see you.

Do yourself�and your kneecaps�a favor and stay away from their backsides, lest you

get kicked.

12. Wolverines: These bushy-tailed wild things might look cute and fluffy, but if you ever

encounter one of them in the wild, just remember that they�re every bit as ferocious as their

X-Men namesake. There�s a reason why Wolverine�s got a temper!

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District Representative | What I do & how much I make | Part 1 | Khan Academy - Duration: 4:29.

My name is Fernando Morales,

I'm 27, and I'm a representative

for State Senator Ben Allen's office.

My main responsibilities, I would say

that the first one would be outreach,

and that's about 60% of my responsibilities in the office.

And that's going to community meetings,

whether it's a chamber meeting

or a neighborhood council or a homeowner's association,

hearing what the issues are there,

whether it's homelessness in Hollywood

or transportation in the mid-city area,

and really getting to have my hand

to the pulse of the community

so that I can communicate that to the senator.

A lot of the times, that involves speaking on his behalf

when he is in Sacramento for the legislative session.

So I get to be his proxy in many ways,

which is exciting and a little,

it drives a little anxiety when I have to public speak,

but I do enjoy doing that part of my job.

Another 30% of my responsibilities in the office,

I would say, are mostly administrative or clerical.

Whether it's planning or setting up logistics

for events, producing letters or certificates

for community members, whether it's a graduation,

Eagle Scouts, or whatever it may be,

making sure that I can complete that for those constituents.

The last 10% is staffing the senator,

which means attending with him

to different community events, letting him know

which community members have the questions

and the concerns, and making sure that he can address them

and go to them to get to, you know,

have some one-on-one time and hear them out.

No one day is the same at my job, and I tend to enjoy that.

Back when I was younger, I had this fantasy

of having this job in which I went to sleep

in a different place than where I woke up,

it was just constantly moving.

Little did I realize I could do that in the same place,

it's just every minute of the day,

and every different day is different regarding

which event I could attend.

The communities that I represent are so diverse

that there's just such a wide array

of issues and conversations, so I could be, at night,

at a gala for a non-profit, or, you know,

I could be at a neighborhood council meeting

talking up planning and some of the issues

that the constituents have been encountering there.

So there's a very wide range, and a lot of the times,

it leaks into nights and very early mornings, sometimes,

weekends, but I mean, it's all different,

so at least it never gets boring.

District representatives, on average,

make about anywhere from 35,000 dollars

to 50,000, 55,000 dollars.

In my particular case, I had some experience beforehand

in public relations, and I've been in this similar position

for about three years, one year of that

in the State Assembly, so my current salary

is about 43,000 dollars or so.

Whenever I was told I had the job,

I was asked what salary I was expecting

or what I would need,

and I actually significantly undershot them,

just from being paid hourly before.

I said look, I'll take 30,000,

and then, you know, they laughed for a second

and said, oh no, we were gonna give you 35,

we just thought you were gonna go higher.

So if I had been a little savvier,

I'm sure I coulda started up a little higher [laughs].

My job comes with great benefits

when it comes to healthcare, dental, and vision,

and, you know, it's not the most competitive pay,

so I think that is something that needs

to be taken into consideration as well.

Other than the benefits, there are some perks

to the job, and the perks would include having access

to certain people that know, and they're the specialists

of whatever field they're in.

You know, I could talk to a professor at UCLA

who's been doing groundbreaking research on neurobiology.

I could talk to a CEO of a tech company

in the Silicon Beach community that's growing.

At some point, I could talk to the Secretary of California,

Secretary of the State Alex Padilla, and I have.

And it's really exciting to be able

to hear directly from people that are affecting

that change in whatever it may be.

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Customer Success Manager | What I do & how much I make | Part 1 | Khan Academy - Duration: 8:05.

My name is Nick Donovan.

I'm 28 years old and I'm a customer success manager

at User Testing.

I make $80K a year.

User testing is a company that specializes

in providing qualitative user feedback

for companies with apps and websites.

So that's a little bit complicated,

but essentially what we do is we allow big companies

to understand what users experiences are like

when they try using their apps and websites.

So for example, when you go to Amazon to buy something,

maybe there's a step in the process

that's really confusing,

and so you decide not to buy it.

Amazon wants that not to be the case,

so they purchase a subscription with User Testing

which allows them to see what their users are experiencing

and improve those processes.

So User Testing has a panel of testers

that exists all over the globe,

and in order to get feedback what we do is

we have each of those testers take what we call sessions.

And those are done using a screen recorder

on either their desktop computer or their mobile device

which will record what they're doing on their device,

as well as their thoughts that they're speaking aloud

during the session.

So that way we're getting feedback on not only

what it looks like when they're trying to click on things,

but also if they're running into an issue

they didn't know they were going to have,

they can speak their thoughts aloud

and say, "Oh this isn't what I expected,"

to make those pain points really clear.

Essentially User Testing is here in order to provide

companies with those insights into those users.

So as a customer success manager,

I'm here for a couple different reasons,

that our main focus here is to make sure

that our customers are always really happy

with the platform and the product and subscriptions

that they've purchased with us.

If they're really happy with us,

then it means that they're really sticky

and we're doing great work for them

in providing them valuable research.

And that means that they're going to come back

again next year and purchase again.

So really when it all boils down,

I'm here to help ensure that customers are renewing with us

and spending money that way.

My major responsibilities, as I'd said previously,

is essentially to ensure

that my customers are always healthy

which means that they're utilizing the product.

They are finding value in it.

That's really kind of what matters.

So in order to do that, I'll do partnership reviews

which is times when I'll go in and try to meet

with the executive stakeholders at my customers' companies,

and ensure that they're seeing the great value

that they're getting.

Beyond that we'll also be having

regular email correspondence,

monthly check-ins in order to make sure

that they're doing well,

phone calls.

I'll go visit them in person sometimes,

that's some of my favorite stuff to do on my job

is actually going and visiting really cool companies.

And then beyond that, I'm also responsible

for all renewal discussions.

So once a customer is done with their first year with us,

I'm responsible for talking with them

about their upcoming year subscription

and making sure they still want to stay on.

So projects for my role are a little varied.

Sometimes a project could be onboarding a new customer

and that would mean that I am working

with our professional services team or researchers

and project managers who want to make sure

that all our customers understand fully

how to utilize the platform.

So sometimes I'm focusing really on that

with newer customers.

Other times I'm putting out fires,

if there's a customer who had a really poor experience

for one reason or another,

I want to make sure that they understand that

that's not how we do business,

the usual typical experience

and helping them kind of reconnect and regroup,

so that we can do great stuff going forward.

Other times it's renewal discussions,

so figuring out what number is really going to work

for that customer and what actual package

is going to get them what they really need

in order to get those insights that they're looking for.

I make $80,000 a year,

Now that number is a little bit variable,

it tends shift based on a few different factors.

The main thing that I'm kind of graded on

and that can impact that

is whether or not my customers renew,

which is a great sign of a good customer success manager.

If I'm doing my job, they want to continue with us.

So customer success managers tend

to make around $80,000-ish.

It varies quite a bit just because custom success managers

and customer success as a field,

tends to be a newer field that's just kind of starting.

So a lot of different companies are figuring out

what the responsibilities of a customer success manager

should be and with that what the pay should be,

so that it really balances out.

There's a really broad window, I would say,

tends to make anywhere from $60k to $100k a year,

and still have a job.

So I'm making pretty much right in the middle there,

which is really great.

Started out making around $60k,

that improved because User Testing wanted to make sure

that everyone at the company was making industry standard

and so we've improved to this point.

And then from here for me to continue improving,

I need to make sure that my renewal numbers are good,

my customers are utilizing the product,

things that are normally expected of me

in my day-to-day so that,

it's pretty fitting I would say.

I had my first annual review last year and I

thought ahead and I planned and I came prepared

with all of the great renewable numbers that I had,

all the usage data,

so that I could show the positive impact

that I had had on the customers who I'd worked with,

and that was really good

and it was one of the factors that resulted

in me making a little more money.

So to be successful as a customer success manager

there are a few things that have to happen.

You have to be able to think strategically

long-term about customers.

A lot of times, there's some confusion over well

is customer success a sales role?

And it's not because in sales,

you're trying to sell as much as you can.

To be a great customer success manager,

you really need to think strategically,

long-term about your customers

and what will make the most positive impact for them.

So you really have to have their well-being in mind

if you're wondering about what mindset you have to have.

What that means kind of for the skill set

is to be able to look at, okay,

this is what a customer's hoping to accomplish,

this is how we can get them there.

Maybe it's a small package,

maybe it's something that they just need

to get off the ground.

And from there, maybe we are going to try out

some new different things.

And maybe they'll find a feature

that is bringing them a lot of value.

Great, we can bring them that.

We don't need to always be upselling,

we don't need to be charging as much as possible,

we don't need to be doing any of that.

We need to work with their budgets

that they're healthy and happy

and coming back again next year

and continuing to work with us,

'cause that's really what matters.

So one of the things that's really important

is being organized.

So like I'd said,

I'm managing a bunch of different customers.

Right now, I am managing about 60 customers,

which is a lot.

So that means multiple monthly touch points every day

and I need to be knowing

what these customers are doing.

So I need to know what their values are,

what they want to be achieving.

And with 60 different people

who I need to be keeping track of,

everything each of them are doing,

and some of them are teams of more than one people

so they have lots of different things

they're doing within each of their teams.

Organization is really key,

you need to be able to keep track of everything.

Beyond that,

being a personable person and being friendly

and not being nervous to go in

and have conversations with important key stakeholders

is a necessity.

You have to be able to be comfortable doing that.

Yeah, it's been great.

I've actually kind of become close with some of my customers

which is really nice to be able to say,

"Oh well, you know after work we should meet up for drinks."

Or, "You know, next time I'm in town,

"I'll give you a call and we can go out."

And that's been a really cool experience.

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Firefighter | What I do & how much I make | Part 1 | Khan Academy - Duration: 5:42.

My name is Ky-ree Toadvine.

I'm a firefighter, and currently I make anywhere

from 65 to 70 grand a year.

As a firefighter every day is different,

there is not really a routine to it.

We could be going to a medical emergency at one moment

which we're in someone's home and helping them,

or we could be going to an actual structure fire

in which we will have to utilize fire suppression

efforts to put out the fire effectively,

or even we could respond to a traffic accident

in which there is a trapped,

pinned victim and we need to unpin them.

There's a lot of different things going on

and its always different.

Well right now I'm just a probationary member,

and its not necessarily a bad thing to be

a probationary member it just means that

I'm still learning at the moment.

I'm actually in the field,

I've passed the academy,

and I'm learning the ropes of what to actually do

while in the field.

And my main role I will say is to learn as

much as possible so that I could be as effective

at my job as I possibly can after this probationary year.

So as a firefighter I currently make 65 to 70,000

dollars a year just for my probationary year.

There are pay increases that come in through

over time, about six months in I'll get another pay increase

and then a year in I'll get another pay increase.

And then there are other certifications that we could get,

like our paramedic certification which will give us a bonus.

If you like to be USAR, Urban Search and Rescue Certified

then you can also go and take the classes to get

that certification which will also

give you sort of a bonus.

Same thing for hazardous materials

if you're at that specialized station then

you can get those classes taken care of

and receive those certifications for that bonus.

I study as often as I possibly can.

There's loads of information

that I don't know anything about.

One such example is building construction.

I didn't have a building construction background

coming into this career field so I have to take the

initiative to make sure I study it as often as

possible just to make sure that I don't let

the knowledge, or skill set, slip away from me.

I'm studying building construction because,

say if we're on top of a roof during a fire,

we have to ventilate the building.

We have to know what typical rafter direction is

so that we can effectively cut the roofing

off of the roof and allow the fire to ventilate

outside of the roof, or to ventilate vertically.

That will allow us to also tell if there

may be signs of collapse going on.

Also, I have to mention being physically and mentally fit,

we have to make sure that we take on a set of fitness

that's not just aesthetic.

You have to make sure that its actual, functional,

actually functional, excuse me,

and take that and make sure that

we're actually adaptable in the field as well

with our fitness and what we can do in the field.

And it keeps us mentally fit as well

because it allows us to keep the edge off

and takes off the stress a little bit as well

so we can continue to think effectively,

and be effective in our field as well.

Within our work week,

we work three 24-hour days

out of a five day work week, typically.

From that we start our week with working one day, 24 hours,

having one full day off, working the next day 24 hours,

having the next day off, and then working one last day,

and then having four days off,

but that's also not counting any overtime

in which you may want to pick up

and which we also work 24 hours.

And within that 24 hours like I said

we would be responding to a number of amount

of incidents, non-emergency, emergency,

maybe doing community service as well.

So during our 24 hours we are at the station

a majority of the time.

That's if we're not running calls.

If it's not a busy day,

that we may be out running calls or if there

is an errand to be done,

then we may need to go out and do an errand,

or if there's training to be done

we will be out doing our training with another company.

When I'm working for 24 hours at a time on platoon duty

we're not awake for exactly 24 hours throughout the day.

We do have times where we can rest,

and cook or do whatever we need to take

care of what we may need.

The station is basically like a house,

and we're all there together.

The challenges of a firefighter within the city

versus say the country,

say LA versus like you said, Boise, Idaho,

would be the first thing I think of is

Downtown Los Angeles, high rises,

they're tough to climb. (laughs)

It's a lot of different construction aspects to go into,

it's a lot of different elevator problems

you will go into as well.

There's a totally different,

well not totally different,

but there is a different approach you take to

structural firefighting within a high rise as well.

That's the first thing,

and also a denser population of people.

You have a lot of different type of people,

you have a lot of tourists coming through

so at any moment you could be responding

to a medical call which we run 80 to 90 percent

of within the department,

but you may be running on someone who's from Italy

and doesn't even speak English.

Okay, so different skills and mindset that

you need to have is just more likely just being adaptable.

You have to know that there's never going to be

a been there, done that situation.

You have to be committed to taking in loads of

information that you may know nothing about at the time,

and also make sure that you're able to comprehend

what may be going on at the time,

and not freeze up or anything of that nature

when it's time to perform.

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Instructional Designer | What I do & how much I make | Part 1 | Khan Academy - Duration: 7:53.

My name is Onna Nelson.

I am 28 years old.

I'm an instructional designer

and I make 90,000 dollars a year.

MapR Technologies makes software to help people

manage and analyze big data.

So an example of that would be

if you're a bank, and you want to process

all the credit card transactions that are happening

right now, that's thousands or millions of credit card

transactions that are happening right now,

so that would be an example

of a big data application.

An instructional designer makes material

so that people can learn how to do something.

In my case, I make materials

so that people can learn how to use the product

that my company makes.

So I make lab materials

so that people can practice using the technology.

I make PowerPoint slides, and documentation to

explain how the technology works.

I write glossaries, different study guides.

I also monitor the forums,

and the social media so I have direct communication

with our students online.

So, anytime a student has a question,

or they find a bug in our classes,

they let me know, I address the issue.

So, I'm writing emails, so whenever you sign up

for an online class, like Kahn Academy,

you get that email that says, oh hey,

great job learning, keep going with this next thing.

So, I write a lot of those emails.

Instructional design is at a lot of tech companies,

especially because technology is constantly changing,

so you have the how to use this version of the software,

and then a new version of the software gets released,

and so now you have to create another new tutorial

that says, well how do you use the new version,

and how is it different from the old version.

And so every time a new version gets released,

we have to update our courses.

So, a lot of tech companies do have instructional designers

for that reason, but a lot of other companies

have instructional designers too,

so a lot of instructional designers

will teach people how to

do their jobs, so you have to learn a new email tool

when you start at a new company,

or you have to learn whatever process that

other company uses.

Instructional designers help

with the onboarding of new employees as well.

It all happened at once.

In kind of ...

Bizarre mesh of oh, my God, I need to change my career,

I'm not happy in the career I'm in,

and then I fell into this role.

So, before I became an instructional designer

at MapR Technologies, I was a graduate student

in a PhD program

at The University of California, Santa Barbara,

studying linguistics and cognitive science,

and I realized that ...

About four years into the program I realized

that academia wasn't for me, that I was on a path

that wasn't right for me.

I was headed towards becoming

this professor and researcher

and that's not what I wanted.

I wanted to be more involved in teaching

and fostering relationships with students

and so ...

I also wanted to do something that was more

fast-paced, and I know that the tech industry

is very fast-paced, whereas the academic world

is very slow-paced,

and that just was not right for me so,

I took classes online in data science,

and I knew that I wanted to be involved with

education and data science in some way,

and so now, I'm an educator at a data science company.

I studied data science on Coursera,

so I have a certificate in data science from Coursera

through Johns Hopkins University.

I think I was very lucky in this position,

because my manager took a chance on me.

I don't have a degree in instructional design,

but I had designed courses before.

I don't have a degree um ...

I don't have a degree in computer science but

I had built projects and put them on the web.

So, I had ...

I didn't have the certifications that are typical,

like a degree in instructional design,

or a degree in computer science,

but I had a lot of the skills,

and a lot of the proof that I have been able to use

those skills, which I think, a lot of times,

is more important.

You don't necessarily need a degree in

whatever in order to get a job in that thing.

So, when I was hired, I was hired at 90,000 dollars a year.

I'm currently making that, but I'm scheduled

to get a raise, very soon, of around 4 to five percent.

So every quarter we have a quarterly review,

so every three months we talk about

what we accomplished, and what our goals are,

and we do get a bonus based on that.

My last bonus was around three or four hundred dollars,

and so you get that four times a year.

If you're going to be an instructional designer,

especially in the tech field, you have to like

learning new things, because you constantly

have to learn something new in order to teach it

to other people.

So when you're a junior instructional designer,

you have a manager, or senior instructional designer

helping you with you work all the time,

and then, when you're an instructional designer,

you have a lot of independence,

but maybe not a lot of authority.

When you're a senior instructional designer,

you have a lot of independence,

and you're just expected to be able to do the job

without anyone helping you,

and then you might even be expected to help others as well.

Beyond senior instructional designer, would be,

a management position, or possibly a move into

a different role, so, maybe I don't want to be instructional

design, I want to work more in curriculum development,

or maybe I want to work more in interactive design,

so there's a lot of lateral movement as well.

I think everyone I work with has at least a college degree.

Some have master's degrees, but all of us

came from different backgrounds,

so for example, I have a degree in linguistics,

another one has a degree in physics,

another has a degree in math,

another has a degree in fine arts.

So, it's not like you need a degree in computer science

to work in the tech industry.

I'm very lucky to have a very flexible job.

As long as I log in during working hours,

whether or not that log in is at the office,

or at home, or at a coffee shop,

the important thing is that we have core working hours

where everybody has to log in, check in,

have meetings.

So you can't just do all your work

in the middle of the night, and then not log in

during the time everyone else is awake and

doing meetings, but, I do have a very flexible

working hours, and very good work-life balance.

I think the most important career advice

is to always want to keep learning.

No matter what your career is.

I think if you wanted to become an instructional designer

especially, being in the education field means constantly

learning so you can constantly teach.

But, any field, you're education doesn't stop

after high school, or after college.

There's always going to be new technologies,

or new, you know, whatever it is, to learn,

so being open-minded,

and being willing to accept new chances

and try new things is really important.

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Architectural Designer | What I do & how much I make | Part 1 | Khan Academy - Duration: 3:24.

I'm Sophia Hastings.

I'm 24, and I am a designer at an architecture firm.

We design mostly homes, but also some office space,

hotels, things like that.

At the firm, Robert is the boss and owner.

He's the only licensed architect here,

and then you have the architectural designers

who are four people including myself.

Then, we have one intern.

An architectural designer is someone who carries out

a project from beginning ideas, initial sketches

all the way through a built, inhabitable project.

Robert as the only licensed architect is the only one

who can stamp these as an architect, approve of them,

be held legally accountable for them,

but our role as architectural designers is to help him

through the process, manage the project,

and do a lot of the work required to finish

and complete them.

My key responsibilities in the design realm are

attending client meetings, taking notes,

making 3D models on the computer of our projects,

taking a lot of sketches that Robert makes

and translating them into construction drawings

on the computer, and also a lot

of site visits and measuring.

In the permitting process, my responsibilities are

meeting with officials, getting all the paperwork together

to make sure that a building can be permitted,

and finally obtaining the permit.

Then, in the construction administration side of it,

I focus on coordinating with construction teams

making sure that if there's a change I issue a drawing

to communicate that to all the proper people,

and also overseeing construction sites.

My annual salary is about $40,000.00 right now.

I make $20.00 an hour.

I work eight hour days.

That come to about $3200.00 that I'm taking home per month.

I am an independent contractor right now

because initially I was only going to be here temporarily

which made sense.

What that means is that I don't get taxes

taken out of my paycheck, so I get the full amount,

and I'm responsible for my own taxes at the end of the year.

Right now, I'm in transition

of becoming a full time employee

where I will get taxes taken out and get full benefits.

My worst day on this job was

I had just started working here,

and I had made some drawings to send to the contractor

on site for something we were doing,

and we got a call in the office.

There were walls where there weren't supposed to be walls

like built in the physical world.

That had never happened to me before.

It was because of my drawings, so I freaked out.

That was a big day for me.

I redrew it.

Robert got the contractor to take out the drywall

that they had already put in and stuff.

He said, you know, that's part of the job.

It happens all the time,

but because it was my first time ever experiencing that,

it was really scary.

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How to STOP Your Cat Spraying Everywhere: 9 tips for success! - Duration: 8:31.

today I'm going to give you nine tips for how to stop your cat spraying

everywhere hi I'm dr. Alex Avery from ourpetshealth.com helping you and

your cat to live a healthier happier life so if it's your first time here

consider subscribing so you don't miss out on future videos

now cats who urinate everywhere who are spraying outside of the litter tray

they're urinating outside the litter tray they're have accidents around the house

it's a really stressful time not just for you but also for your cat and there

are a number of things we can do to stop that so today I'm gonna give you 9 tips

and 9 steps so step number one is to understand why cats spray so spraying is

a marking behavior they are leaving their urine scent mark in their

environment really to let other cats and other animals know that they're around

it helps them control their territory it helps avoid conflict with other cats and

so that's really why they're doing it they're marking their territory

so step number two to stop your cat spraying everywhere is to understand the

difference between spraying and actually inappropriate urination so when your cat

is spraying they will typically back up to a vertical surface or like a wall

maybe the side of your sofa and they will often lift their tail it may twitch

a little bit and the urine will spray out and onto that vertical surface so

that's really spraying urination on the other hand they will get into a

crouching position and they will urinate as though they're urinating normally

they might strain a little bit and things like that but they will be

urinating on a horizontal surface so that's really the big difference between

urination and spraying and that's really important so step number three is to

make sure there's no underlying medical condition and this is definitely the

case if your cat is urinating inappropriately rather than spraying so

if they're squatting but they're not using their litter tray they're going in

different parts then that might be a sign that something else is going on and

there are a whole heap of different problems that can cause inappropriate

urination in cats and may include things like arthritis

diabetes kidney disease where there may be either difficulty

getting into the litter tray or your cat may be just producing so much urine

they really just need to go all the time and then other conditions that actually

affect the bladder and urinary tract itself so things like cystitis bladder

tumors and bladder stones that kind of thing so if there's anything like that

going on then obviously we need to tackle the root cause and that should

resolve and correct the problem with inappropriate urination if your cats got

arthritis I've certainly got several videos and strategies about that and

also with cystitis I've got some videos and strategies that we can use to cope

with that so make sure you check out those videos which I'll link down in the

description below okay so step number four is to check that your cat is

neutered so this might seem like an obvious thing but our cats who are

neutered are much less likely to spray they've got less of a drive to maintain

a territory to defend that territory they're generally less stressed as well

so if your cat is spraying and they are entire then getting them neutered it might be

just what needs to happen to resolve that problem there are so many other

reasons that we should be getting our cats spayed or castrated and

I've got a video that I'll link up here and also down in the description that

lets you know the benefits of that and also when you should consider getting

your cat neutered so step number five is to reduce your cat stress levels so this

is especially the case if they're spraying stress really just causes them

to want to mark their territory more so as well as spraying they might be

clawing and scratching the furniture again just trying to mark out their

territory stress is a huge issue in cats and it's often one that we don't

recognize maybe as well as we should just because some of the signs

can be subtle but spraying is often really a true sign that your cat is

stressed they can be stressed about a lot of different things and there are a

whole number of ways that we can go about correcting that which might

involve in environmental changes making sure other cats aren't coming into your

house and eating their food making sure there's the right number of food bowls

and litter trays depending on the number of cats in your house and I've got a lot

of other tips in the video I'll link up here all about reducing stress in your

cat okay step number six is to consider litter tray management so that

involves what type of litter you're using so some cats will really like one litter

that maybe is unscented and you're using a scented one they might dislike a clay

based one that can actually clump and stick to the soles of their feet

so consider the litter type the litter tray type as well so if your cat has

arthritis then they might find actually getting into a high lip litter tray

quite difficult consider where you're putting your litter tray so cats will

generally like a private enclosed area so not in really busy kind of through

traffic areas so the middle of the hall by the front door really wouldn't be a

great spot for for their litter tray also cleaning them regularly so again

some cats will only really want to use a litter tray once or they won't use it

if another cat has been in there so making sure that you clean the litter tray regularly

enough and then having enough litter trays so as a general rule we should

have one more litter tray than the number of cats in the house so if you've

only got one cat then that's two litter trays

if you've got four cats then really you need five litter trays all in different

locations so litter tray management is another way that we can

stop our cat spraying everywhere and urinating everywhere so at step number

seven and if there's still a problem after all of these other tips if your

cat especially if they're spraying or urinating in one spot in particular what

you can try and do is either actually just move their litter tray there it

might not be where you want it but if you can get them back using the litter

tray you can then slowly move it back to a position where you're happy for that

litter tray to be alternatively you can even actually try putting their food and

water in that area cats are really clean hygienic animals in general and

they don't like peeing where their food or their water is so putting that there

can help put them off so step number eight is to clean up properly after your

cat so there are certain things within the cat's urine that will attract them

back to that same spot and so they'll often keep re-marking in the same

spot now what this means is that we need to clean that area properly now what I

generally suggest is that while there are various sprays and cleaners on the

market which do a good job another thing that we can use is we can use biological

washing powder just mix that with a bit of water

to create a solution and then just really scrub that area and allow that to

soak in and what will happen is the enzymes in that biological washing

powder will help break down all of the things that are attracting

your cat back to that area the same goes for the sprays they work in a very

similar way but making sure that you clean up really appropriately and

quickly and with the right cleaner is very important and then step number nine

is things to avoid so you should definitely avoid negative reinforcement

so don't shout at your cat don't kind of punish them in any way especially if

it's a long time after they're doing that spraying or urinating because all

that's going to do is going to make them more stressed they're probably not going

to understand have a clue what they've done wrong and that's probably only

going to make the problem worse it's certainly not going to improve the

situation another thing that we should avoid doing in cats that are urinating

everywhere or your anything outside of their litter tray is to use ammonia

based cleaning products so they have things that ammonia is what's kind of

actually attracting cats back to the area so by using things like bleach you

can actually be kind of just perpetuating the problem because your

cat will be attracted back to that area and then the last thing that you should

avoid doing is avoid using deterrant sprays so again if you've got something

in a cat's environment that really is repelling them it's only going to cause

them more stress and while they might not urinate in that particular spot

again they're just going to go and find somewhere else to urinate and it's not

going to be in the litter tray so I hope all of these points these nine tips to

stop your cat urinating everywhere help solve your habit I know it can be an

incredibly stressful time both for your cat and for you as their owner if you've

got any other tips that have really worked for you or if you've got any

questions then please leave me a comment down below also remember to subscribe to

make sure you don't miss out on future videos just like this one and until next

time i'm dr. alex from our pets health because they're family