This question:

What's better than a spray bottle for negative reinforcement of a cat?

Was marked a duplicate of:

How should I discipline my cat for bad behavior?

And the two questions are clearly, utterly different questions altogether.

I created the question because I found a better solution than the squirt bottle for negative reinforcement and decided to share it Q&A style - an option that's promoted by Stack Exchange.

Also, my answer was down-voted, so not only were my efforts to share the answer to a common problem shut down by the question being wrongfully called a duplicate, but were even criticized, and I would like to know if someone can tell me what I did wrong to get answer down-voted and why my question was called a duplicate.

This question:

What's better than a spray bottle for negative reinforcement of a cat?

Was marked a duplicate of:

How should I discipline my cat for bad behavior?

And the two questions are clearly, utterly different questions altogether.

I created the question because I found a better solution than the squirt bottle for negative reinforcement and decided to share it Q&A style - an option that's promoted by Stack Exchange.

Also, my answer was down-voted, so not only were my efforts to share the answer to a common problem shut down by the question being wrongfully called a duplicate, but were even criticized, and I would like to know if someone can tell me what I did wrong to get answer down-voted and why my question was called a duplicate.

This question:

What's better than a spray bottle for negative reinforcement of a cat?

Was marked a duplicate of:

How should I discipline my cat for bad behavior?

And the two questions are clearly, utterly different questions altogether.

I created the question because I found a better solution than the squirt bottle for negative reinforcement and decided to share it Q&A style - an option that's promoted by Stack Exchange.

Also, my answer was down-voted, so not only were my efforts to share the answer to a common problem shut down by the question being wrongfully called a duplicate, but were even criticized, and I would like to know if someone can tell me what I did wrong to get answer down-voted and why my question was called a duplicate.

This question:

What's better than a spray bottle for negative reinforcement of a cat?

Was marked a duplicate of:

How should I discipline my cat for bad behavior?

And the two questions are clearly, utterly different questions altogether.

I created the question because I found a better solution than the squirt bottle for negative reinforcement and decided to share it Q&A style - an option that's promoted by Stack Exchange.

Also, my answer was down-voted, so not only were my efforts to share the answer to a common problem shut down by the question being wrongfully called a duplicate, but were even criticized, and I would like to know if someone can tell me what I did wrong to get answer down-voted and why my question was called a duplicate.