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Originally Posted by
lasbar 
Mine is an idiot...
I have tried everything but I still love him.
This has been my experience. My kitty is too dumb for punishment to be effective: apparently she is incapable of linking the punishment to the prohibited act in her kitty mind.
On a related point, when Genevieve was a little kitten, I used to punish her with "the wall of punishment." Basically, I held her up so that her back was against the wall, looked her right in the eyes, and gave her a detailed lecture on what we called "behaviorment science." (It was the science of correct cat behavior.) The wall of punishment did not actually work as a punishment, though, because she'd always start purring.