How do I discipline Jess without bringing in supernanny?

['andersom']

All cats should be sterilised if they are not going to be bred from, imo. Too many cats and kittens end up being put down here because they are unwanted.

When GA and I got Liam, we thought he was a stray and took him to the vet to be sterilised and microchipped as soon as we decided we would keep him. He was in bad shape - very skinny and had been in lots of fights. Then we found out afterwards he belonged to a neighbour. I couldn't believe it, Liam was two years old and hadn't been sterilised. Very, very slack of the neighbours. And, well, Liam prefers to be with GA - he lives there now.

Unless health is preventing it, I totally agree on the sterilising of cats.

That's why I took in some older cats who had already been neutered. I would be able to forget to get it done in time. And that would not have been a good idea at all.

The male cat I had before never got neutered though, the vet didn't dare to do that. He did not dare to vaccinate him either. Sometimes I think I see a child, or grandchild of him walking around.

["couldbecousin"]

Yes, it is good to do that so the cycle of unwanted kittens isn't continued.

for you in place of your former landlady.

 Thank you, I did help take care of them too!  But I must say, my former landlady is the
 best friend any stray ever had, she spent a LOT of money on the care of those strays. 

[Icequeen]

Find a tree she doesn't like.

Seriously, try the spray bottle, although it never worked with "psycho cat" here, all I ended up with was a wet cat.

What did work surprisingly was putting up my old aluminum tree this year. She's destroyed 2 ornaments so far (plastic), but couldn't care less about the tree. Go figure.

[Zippo]

i guess your gunna have to get out the belt

["couldbecousin"]

i guess your gunna have to get out the belt

 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!  *throws self protectively in front of the little princess* 

[Squidusa]

Corporal Punishment!

I think the water bottle is a good idea.

[ZEGH8578]

how to discipline a cat: do like cats do. (which is getting down on the ground, open your eyes, flash your teeth, and hiss)

if the cat doesnt trust your angry enough, paw her.
in order for this not to become animal abuse, do like i did:
move your "paw" towards her fast, right before your about to slap the living shit out of her, slow down drastically, and turn it into a push-away-from-danger

this is
1. similar to cat behaviour = something the cat actually comprehends
and therefore
2. quite effective.

if you dont want to do it, cus you'd feel silly, then im out of options. use a cattle-prod.

['andersom']

^

With most cats, that would work.

Thingy next door keeps going on posing that way to me, even when I have taken him down, got him in his neck, and incapacitated, without hurting him. He keeps showing dominance to me.

That cat wasn't raised by a cat though. And, the biological mother was known as a very aggressive and anti-social cat, both towards humans and cats, afaik. So, nature and nurture are fucking things up there.