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I beat my cats for fun.
(the subject line is a troll)
When he first arrived, my new male cat was hurt and weak. After months of good food and rest, he has become very playful, very healthy looking, and huge! Before I started playing with him, he played with his tail all day. Taking from prior experience with Kiki (my resident female) I took the inner stiff paper role from used up aluminum foil and began beating him with it (not on the head area). I started very gently and payed close attention to how he responded. Naturally, at the very first he acted like it was a bad thing. As he became unfrightened of the "beating" it became a play thing. It takes days to introduce them to it, you don't get immediate gratification. Now it is total fun. Now I can say "Here boy! Here boy!" and throw the stiff paper role across the room and he chases it down. No, he doesn't bring it back in his mouth. But I got him to do the fake out thing once, when you just pretend to throw the object and they run for it anyway, heheh. Sorry, I couldn't resist trying that one. Cats really like posturing, assertive sort of play. Cats might not be overtly effectionate as dogs, but they love attention and love to play. Fun pets. -- Kiki is getting more used to Kitty, I think someday she will even play with him. I think one of the problems has been that his size is very intimidating. |
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On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 20:38:36 GMT, Happy Camper wrote:
(the subject line is a troll) When he first arrived, my new male cat was hurt and weak. After months of good food and rest, he has become very playful, very healthy looking, and huge! Before I started playing with him, he played with his tail all day. Taking from prior experience with Kiki (my resident female) I took the inner stiff paper role from used up aluminum foil and began beating him with it (not on the head area). I started very gently and payed close attention to how he responded. Naturally, at the very first he acted like it was a bad thing. As he became unfrightened of the "beating" it became a play thing. It takes days to introduce them to it, you don't get immediate gratification. Now it is total fun. Now I can say "Here boy! Here boy!" and throw the stiff paper role across the room and he chases it down. No, he doesn't bring it back in his mouth. But I got him to do the fake out thing once, when you just pretend to throw the object and they run for it anyway, heheh. Sorry, I couldn't resist trying that one. Cats really like posturing, assertive sort of play. Cats might not be overtly effectionate as dogs, but they love attention and love to play. Fun pets. Why don't you call it "fake fencing" -- mightg make a better first impression. |
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On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 20:38:36 GMT, Happy Camper wrote:
(the subject line is a troll) When he first arrived, my new male cat was hurt and weak. After months of good food and rest, he has become very playful, very healthy looking, and huge! Before I started playing with him, he played with his tail all day. Taking from prior experience with Kiki (my resident female) I took the inner stiff paper role from used up aluminum foil and began beating him with it (not on the head area). I started very gently and payed close attention to how he responded. Naturally, at the very first he acted like it was a bad thing. As he became unfrightened of the "beating" it became a play thing. It takes days to introduce them to it, you don't get immediate gratification. Now it is total fun. Now I can say "Here boy! Here boy!" and throw the stiff paper role across the room and he chases it down. No, he doesn't bring it back in his mouth. But I got him to do the fake out thing once, when you just pretend to throw the object and they run for it anyway, heheh. Sorry, I couldn't resist trying that one. Cats really like posturing, assertive sort of play. Cats might not be overtly effectionate as dogs, but they love attention and love to play. Fun pets. Why don't you call it "fake fencing" -- mightg make a better first impression. |
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m. L. Briggs wrote:
Happy Camper wrote: I took the inner stiff paper roll from used up aluminum foil and began beating him with it (not on the head area). I started very gently and payed close attention to how he responded. Naturally, at the very first he acted like it was a bad thing. As he became unfrightened of the "beating" it became a play thing. It takes days to introduce them to it, you don't get immediate gratification. Now it is total fun. Why don't you call it "fake fencing" -- mightg make a better first impression. Usually, it is a pursuit sort of thing. I might make a pretend threatening sound like a growel or heavy laughing of some sort and whack him (or her) as he takes off. Then he gets ready for more play. Also while he is lying down. I usually aim for the hind quarters. The paper roll is so light weight, it hardly risks injury when he claws at it. I need to start buying the 25' rolls instead of 75' since he probably will tear them up with his powerful claws (this cat is about 14 lbs). When we do the fetch thing, he runs and sometimes jumps on it, and does the rear foot pushing thing like it is a big toy. |
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m. L. Briggs wrote:
Happy Camper wrote: I took the inner stiff paper roll from used up aluminum foil and began beating him with it (not on the head area). I started very gently and payed close attention to how he responded. Naturally, at the very first he acted like it was a bad thing. As he became unfrightened of the "beating" it became a play thing. It takes days to introduce them to it, you don't get immediate gratification. Now it is total fun. Why don't you call it "fake fencing" -- mightg make a better first impression. Usually, it is a pursuit sort of thing. I might make a pretend threatening sound like a growel or heavy laughing of some sort and whack him (or her) as he takes off. Then he gets ready for more play. Also while he is lying down. I usually aim for the hind quarters. The paper roll is so light weight, it hardly risks injury when he claws at it. I need to start buying the 25' rolls instead of 75' since he probably will tear them up with his powerful claws (this cat is about 14 lbs). When we do the fetch thing, he runs and sometimes jumps on it, and does the rear foot pushing thing like it is a big toy. |
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