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If they're caught in the act, sure. A great cat training tool is a spray bottle of water. But from the story it sounds like the cat wasn't doing anything at the time, so even if it is a nuisance animal, no correlation is made with an act and a punishment. Not true on the kid, he got something right when he did his malicious action, so if he has any intelligence he might connect the two and not do it again.