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Cats Would Like You to Know They Are Open to Training
Scientific American ^
| 6/15/16
| Julie Hecht
Posted on 06/16/2016 11:16:31 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows
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posted on
06/16/2016 11:17:47 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg)
To: Slings and Arrows
Cats Would Like You to Know They Are Open to Training ... YOU!
If you'll just get with the program.
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posted on
06/16/2016 11:20:36 AM PDT
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
To: Slings and Arrows
What do the cats want to train us to do?
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posted on
06/16/2016 11:20:52 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
(is)
To: Slings and Arrows
I tried this with our cat Shadow.
She looked at me and said, “You’re not doing it right”, and walked away.
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posted on
06/16/2016 11:23:06 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Slings and Arrows
To: Slings and Arrows
I had success when I got new chairs with this method:
1) Buy cat-repellent spray
2) Spray it on multiple paper towels and let the towels dry
3) Safety-pin the sprayed towels all over the new piece of furniture.
This worked like a charm. I removed the paper towels one at a time after about a week, which is like a couple of months in cat time.
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posted on
06/16/2016 11:23:35 AM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
("We can't fix a rigged system by relying on the people who rigged it." --Donald Trump, 6/7/16)
To: Slings and Arrows
Excellent! They CAN be trained. I had one that would fetch a small ball and bring it back for no more that a scritch behind his ears. And he would then treat me to his name’s sake purr: Evinrude!
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posted on
06/16/2016 11:25:22 AM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(I'm not much on seizing the day. I just kinda poke it with a stick. :o]))
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
06/16/2016 11:28:41 AM PDT
by
Menehune56
("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
To: Snickering Hound
LOL at the spray bottle with ‘BAD CAT’ penned on it. :-)
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posted on
06/16/2016 11:29:52 AM PDT
by
Riley
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: TigersEye
Watch what you let them read, though..
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posted on
06/16/2016 11:32:01 AM PDT
by
PROCON
(Americans First or Terrorists First - Choose November 8, 2016)
To: PROCON
Heavens to Betsy! Why would you leave any reading material out
where a cat could get to it? ;-)
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posted on
06/16/2016 11:34:28 AM PDT
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
To: Slings and Arrows
Depends on the personality of the cat.
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posted on
06/16/2016 11:34:50 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: PROCON
I can’t stop laughing at that. The look on the dog’s face is too funny.
To: Slings and Arrows
I have a Manx Point Siamese that pees in the toilet.
I got her at the shelter, she was estimated to be a couple years old and had kittens that were all adopted out already, someone had declawed her. She is now about 14 years old.
Somebody trained her I guess, it was not me. How does one do that? (She doesn’t flush though)
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posted on
06/16/2016 11:39:14 AM PDT
by
right way right
(May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
To: Slings and Arrows
So he has you trained to give him food when he scratches the post?
(I am CERTAIN that’s how the cat sees it)
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posted on
06/16/2016 11:39:28 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Trump will win NY state - choke on that HilLIARy)
To: Monkey Face; Slings and Arrows
We have a black tom that I taught to shake hands.
Really.
I have to most times tap him the back of the leg before he will extend his paw to shake.
Sometimes when he doesn’t want to shake hands, he’ll nip at my hand when I go to tap him on the leg, but will still extend his paw to shake.
When he was young he would retrieve a rolled up ball of paper or something and bring it back to me, but as he grew older he stopped doing that. :)
We also have one that will use the commode.
Cats CAN be trained.
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posted on
06/16/2016 11:47:25 AM PDT
by
patriot08
(5th generation Texan-(girl type) ANGRY? REFUSE TO VOTE? HELLO HILLARY!!!)
To: Riley
My clever friend uses a toy water gun. All he has to do is mention it or look at the shelf where he keeps it, and the cat desists from its criminal behavior.
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posted on
06/16/2016 11:54:28 AM PDT
by
Buttons12
( It Can't Happen Here -- Sinclair Lewis.)
To: TigersEye
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posted on
06/16/2016 11:55:36 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg)
To: PROCON
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posted on
06/16/2016 11:57:19 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg)
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