Like jumping through a hoop or something...
2006-10-02 03:28:55 · 11 answers · asked by Steph :-) 3 in Pets ➔ Cats
A lot of patience! Cats are very intellegent and quite capable of learning basic vocabulary and behaviors.
The first thing you'll need to do is put your kitty on a set feeding schedule. Feed the appropriate amount two to three times per day. This will create a hunger-drive and make it easier to reward you cat's good behavior with food. If you decide to use a clicker, click it everytime you put food in the dish. Your kitty will quickly associate the sound with food. Tell your kitty "good" and pet her and she'll know that coming to the sound of the clicker is good. Always use the same word so your kitty will associate it with good deads.
Very shortly, you will be able to click the clicker near dinner time and your kitty should come running to you. Make sure you tell her good and reward her with a treat. It won't be long until you can click from another room and kitty will be at your side. Just make sure you reward them, and don't overwork the same behavior. Cats get bored much faster than dogs.
Once your kitty associates the clicker with praise you can begin incorporating other behaviors. Chances are your cat won't learn to rollover and play dead, but you will be able to condition some behaviors.
When I was a little girl, my siblings and I put on kitty circuses. Our cat loved lunch meat and would do anything for it, including jumping from perch to perch and standing and spinning on her hind legs. She didn't really know tricks, but she would follow that lunchmeat anywhere. As long as you gave her little pieces now and then she would stay interested. The is essentially the same thing they do to get kitties to do "tricks" in movies.
2006-10-02 04:25:10 · answer #1 · answered by Drea 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It takes a lot of work and patience to train any animal. To train a cat requires double that! I did once read a fantastic Yahoo! Answers post on how to use one of those clickers. Do a search and maybe you'll find it. It's a full-time job though and not every cat is receptive to training. Professional animal trainers all go to the pound and seek out the cat with a personality that will lend itself to being trained. These are usually the super-friendly, affectionate and gregarious cats. An aloof, independent kitty is not a good candidate for training.
2006-10-02 04:26:27 · answer #2 · answered by Alleycat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's very difficult to train a cat, almost impossible to train one reliably (meaning, s/he will do the thing each time you command), and impossible to make her/him perform an action s/he doesn't want to.
So, it's possible to make your cat do "cool tricks" that s/he wants to (mine will fetch quite easily and regularly; he will also hit or catch the toy / ball each time I throw it at him... and I have very little time to spend training him, I use it to play with him and enjoy his company). But you never know which way the cat will go - s/he may jump through the hoop 20 times, and go around the 21st...
2006-10-02 04:04:41 · answer #3 · answered by AlphaOne_ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How adorable, My pal does this trick along with her dog. She will get her dog to sit down then say's BANG BANG! And makes her fingers into a gun form and her dog falls to the ground on her facet and simply lays nonetheless. Its so lovely. You could are attempting that, that might be rather cool. Want my cats would do methods however they feel they are notably that, lol.
2016-08-09 15:37:05 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my cat does it naturally i throw a ball of yarn and she'll bring back to me and I'll throw it again who's doing the trick after all? me for throwing it her for thinking she 's to bring it back ? if she does she gets a cat treat. then the mouse on a string or pole type toy toys they can make believe they in the jungle and going for a hunt they bring the pride what they caught the most that a cat will do as tricks simple toy games as for hoops get a poodle
2006-10-02 04:01:39 · answer #5 · answered by clear morning 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
find a treat that she likes and there are clickers that you can get to help, is all i can suggest but if she's not a kitten dont get your hopes up the older they are the harder it can be but hell if a cat can be trained to do stuff in movies, anything is possible
go to a book store or a petco they might have books
2006-10-02 03:56:33 · answer #6 · answered by Doones 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First you have to get their attention by either offering them a treat or catnip. We have taught our cats to sit up for food. They also have to be in the mood for training. You can work with them after their naps, and you need to have alot of patience!
2006-10-02 04:04:27 · answer #7 · answered by Cathy B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know that it would be really kool to train, but they are not like that, they do what they want, when they want, if you want an animal that can do tricks why don't you get a dog?
2006-10-02 08:02:33 · answer #8 · answered by krazykat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cats are not the animals to train, they have a mind of their own
2006-10-02 03:44:09 · answer #9 · answered by just me 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can look up a few trainers at petco.com for your local area to see if there's any animal trainers that can help you
2006-10-02 03:55:36 · answer #10 · answered by norma 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋