So, my kittens stay with me in my room (which is the basement floor of the house). I go upstairs only to go to the bathroom, eat dinner, shower, and get their food. When I go up, I leave them down here because it would be a lot of effort to wrangle them back down. But they've started sitting right at the door to the stairs going to the basement and sneaking past me as I open the door.
I was thinking of training them to not do this and instead follow me down stairs through treat training them. Like, every time I leave, when I come back they get treats and hopefully eventually they begin to associate me coming in the door to getting a treat and will just follow me downstairs instead of trying to get past me. Does that sound like it would work? They're pretty food driven, especially for wet food.
I just want to curb this now, because it isn't a huge deal when it's just because I don't want them getting into the rest of the house, but when we move to an apartment I don't want them trying to escape into the hall or outside.
Any advice? I don't want to any negative reinforcement, I would rather just do positive and actually try to train them.
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