Actually cats can be taught a lesson with something a lot less harmful than pepper spray. Plain vanilla extract, the cheapiest you can find but the artificial won't work. mix 1/2 & 1/2 with water and put in a small sprayer with a very fine spray, spray on his nose if possible, it will not harm the eyes at this dilution. Anyway, the effect is to shut off their olafactory system temporarily and they hate this. It usually does not take more than a couple of doses for them to learn to avoid it by not doing whatever it is doing. Now if it a tom and is spraying, there is only one cure for that........ -- Andie Paysinger & the PENDRAGON Basenjis,Teafer,Cheesy,Singer & Player asenji@earthlink.net So. Calif. USA "In the face of adversity, be patient, in the face of a basenji, be prudent, be canny, be on your guard!" http://home.earthlink.net/~asenji/