Clicker Training..

"Tiners" wrote in message . net.cable.rogers.com...
Hey

I bought a clicker today and I wanted to know how you clicker train your
cat. Someone here or on another newsgroup posted how you do it. I'd like
to find out. Mine sure are bored and I'd love to clicker train em

Tina =^..^=
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Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum --
I think that I think,
therefore I think that I am.

I don't know about clickers, but I do know that a BB gun works very
well in cat training. They learn very quickly to listen to me or *pop*
MREEOOOOWWWWWWRRRREEEOOOOW. A clicker just aggravates the cats they
need to know who the boss is.

James Marz

On Sun, 02 May 2004 20:01:47 GMT, "Tiners" wrote:

Thanks! I was looking for something free thought.. hehe.. I guess I'll have
to make it up or find something out.

Well, there is the Yahoo group I suggested -- Cat-Clicker.



Orchid
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On Sun, 02 May 2004 20:01:47 GMT, "Tiners" wrote:

Thanks! I was looking for something free thought.. hehe.. I guess I'll have
to make it up or find something out.

Well, there is the Yahoo group I suggested -- Cat-Clicker.



Orchid
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James Marz wrote:
I don't know about clickers, but I do know that a BB gun works very
well in cat training. They learn very quickly to listen to me or *pop*
MREEOOOOWWWWWWRRRREEEOOOOW. A clicker just aggravates the cats they
need to know who the boss is.

Bet the cat laughed its ass off when you slid across a BB on the floor
and fell on your butt.

A bit too rough, though, the cat would then avoid you as opposed to
trying to do what you say (this works fine if the command you're using
is "get the hell out").

Otherwise the trick to negative-reinforcement (if you believe in that)
and cats is to **** them off... take the cat off the kitchen counter
where it knows it shouldn't be and rub its fur the wrong way so it has
to spend 20 minutes putting all its hair back in place.


pat

James Marz wrote:
I don't know about clickers, but I do know that a BB gun works very
well in cat training. They learn very quickly to listen to me or *pop*
MREEOOOOWWWWWWRRRREEEOOOOW. A clicker just aggravates the cats they
need to know who the boss is.

Bet the cat laughed its ass off when you slid across a BB on the floor
and fell on your butt.

A bit too rough, though, the cat would then avoid you as opposed to
trying to do what you say (this works fine if the command you're using
is "get the hell out").

Otherwise the trick to negative-reinforcement (if you believe in that)
and cats is to **** them off... take the cat off the kitchen counter
where it knows it shouldn't be and rub its fur the wrong way so it has
to spend 20 minutes putting all its hair back in place.


pat

(James Marz) wrote in message . com...
"Tiners" wrote in message . net.cable.rogers.com...
Hey

I bought a clicker today and I wanted to know how you clicker train your
cat. Someone here or on another newsgroup posted how you do it. I'd like
to find out. Mine sure are bored and I'd love to clicker train em

Tina =^..^=
----
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum --
I think that I think,
therefore I think that I am.

I don't know about clickers, but I do know that a BB gun works very
well in cat training. They learn very quickly to listen to me or *pop*
MREEOOOOWWWWWWRRRREEEOOOOW. A clicker just aggravates the cats they
need to know who the boss is.

James Marz

Ouch! wouldn't that hurt the cat? My husband cries a lot when I shoot
him with the BB gun. But it is fun!

Tina

(James Marz) wrote in message . com...
"Tiners" wrote in message . net.cable.rogers.com...
Hey

I bought a clicker today and I wanted to know how you clicker train your
cat. Someone here or on another newsgroup posted how you do it. I'd like
to find out. Mine sure are bored and I'd love to clicker train em

Tina =^..^=
----
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum --
I think that I think,
therefore I think that I am.

I don't know about clickers, but I do know that a BB gun works very
well in cat training. They learn very quickly to listen to me or *pop*
MREEOOOOWWWWWWRRRREEEOOOOW. A clicker just aggravates the cats they
need to know who the boss is.

James Marz

Ouch! wouldn't that hurt the cat? My husband cries a lot when I shoot
him with the BB gun. But it is fun!

Tina

"Tiners" wrote in message le.rogers.com...
Thanks! I was looking for something free thought.. hehe.. I guess I'll have
to make it up or find something out. The lady at the Petsmart told me that
there was a women who clicker trained her birds. She wrote a book about it
too.. Weird... next you can clicker train your snake or your bunny or your
kids!

Tina

Ah, free. Well, I tried to get some info from clickertraining.com,
but I think she was off doing seminars. I wanted to go to her seminar
but they were many hundreds of dollars, alas.

Finally, got tired of waiting for a reply for an email about sending
a check so just borrowed the book, brand new and unused, from my library, HOT DAMN!

Lots of good info she has in her book, Karen Pryor. Others have some
info too. Wendy Jeffries has info in her Yahoo clicker cat group.

I find it does work. Fortunately my cat likes kibble so I don't have to mess
with the spoon and wet food or fingers. CAUTION, if using wet food, buy a
BABY SPOON so your cat in its eagerness does not break a tooth. I noticed
the professional trainers using the very soft baby spoons, cute too, the
spoons and the trainers. Very Friskies oriented, he-he.



Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum --
I think that I think,
therefore I think that I am.

Someone is doing a lot of cogitation, lately, but Descartes
might be wrong. Thinking is not always thinking although
it leads one to think that one is thinking.

"Tiners" wrote in message le.rogers.com...
Thanks! I was looking for something free thought.. hehe.. I guess I'll have
to make it up or find something out. The lady at the Petsmart told me that
there was a women who clicker trained her birds. She wrote a book about it
too.. Weird... next you can clicker train your snake or your bunny or your
kids!

Tina

Ah, free. Well, I tried to get some info from clickertraining.com,
but I think she was off doing seminars. I wanted to go to her seminar
but they were many hundreds of dollars, alas.

Finally, got tired of waiting for a reply for an email about sending
a check so just borrowed the book, brand new and unused, from my library, HOT DAMN!

Lots of good info she has in her book, Karen Pryor. Others have some
info too. Wendy Jeffries has info in her Yahoo clicker cat group.

I find it does work. Fortunately my cat likes kibble so I don't have to mess
with the spoon and wet food or fingers. CAUTION, if using wet food, buy a
BABY SPOON so your cat in its eagerness does not break a tooth. I noticed
the professional trainers using the very soft baby spoons, cute too, the
spoons and the trainers. Very Friskies oriented, he-he.



Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum --
I think that I think,
therefore I think that I am.

Someone is doing a lot of cogitation, lately, but Descartes
might be wrong. Thinking is not always thinking although
it leads one to think that one is thinking.

"Tiners" wrote in message . net.cable.rogers.com...
Hey

I bought a clicker today and I wanted to know how you clicker train your
cat. Someone here or on another newsgroup posted how you do it. I'd like
to find out. Mine sure are bored and I'd love to clicker train em

Tina =^..^=
----
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum --
I think that I think,
therefore I think that I am.

They are really good at clicker traing cats at 10th life. Maybe you
would consider taking your cats there Tina.

Maria