On Wed, 3 May 2006 17:17:00 -0400, "Rhino"
wrote:

My cats occasionally try to mooch human food from me. For instance, if I'm
eating a TV dinner in the living room, they will approach, sniff, and
occasionally try to snag some tasty morsel from me.

If I tell them to keep away in my "no!" voice, it doesn't have much effect.
However, I've found that if I hiss at them, as much like a cat as I can
manage, Bebop will stop immediately. Samba is not so easily deterred by the
hiss but can be dissuaded by gently pushing her away.

I'm just curious whether anyone else has ever tried hissing at their cats to
make them stop doing something and what, if any results, you got?

If the cats are being very norty (like trying to steal food from my
plate) and I don't have the spray bottle handy I'll hiss at them.
Sometimes they back off and sometimes they just sit there and STARE at
me... I think they're thinking 'boy, Meowmie has a bad accent...'