We’ve had a house cat for about 11 years. It’s just totally amazing how affectionate this cat can be. We’ve recently been adopted by a feral cat. He wants to be picked up and held. We hear something crashing through the woods, here he comes just flying towards us, puts on the brakes, lays on his back wanting a tummy rub, then to be picked up. He can’t take this for long due to his wild nature, so back off into the woods he goes.
I’ve found they are as smart as dogs, it’s just they own you, you do not own them. They train you, you do not train them.
“They train you, you do not train them.”
Exactly! I was trying to train one of my cats because I was told he was so smart. Well his sister showed up and was really the smart one, she learned everything I could tell her and then some. So I bought the only three books on cat training I found on Amazon. One of them said the exact same thing, that first you have to figure out that the cat is figuring out what it needs to do to train you to give it treats. Once you realize that’s how it works, then training them is easy.
And she was just trying to train me this morning. She was doing “touch my nose” to wake me up, she knows that always works.