How to Teach the 1, 2, 3 Pattern Game to A Cat
This is an excellent tool to help introduce cats to one another! Pattern games are a simple set of exercises that provide a predictable and secure structure for animals in order to help them normalize changes in their environment (potential “triggers” for reactive cats). Patterns are safe, predictable, repetitive, voluntary and normalizing! Pattern games were […]
How to Teach the Super Bowls Pattern Game
This is an excellent tool to help introduce cats to one another! Pattern games are a simple set of exercises that provide a predictable and secure structure for animals in order to help them normalize changes in their environment (potential “triggers” for reactive cats). Patterns are safe, predictable, repetitive, voluntary and normalizing! Pattern games were […]
Target Training as a Solution to Counter Surfing Behavior
This video will illustrate how to use targeting as a means of controlling unwanted behaviors such as getting on the kitchen counters during meal prep. This same technique could be used to resolve a myriad of other nuisance behaviors. See my other video How to Teach Your Cat to Target a Mat and a Stool […]
Train Your Cat to Willingly Enter and Exit Their Cat Carrier Using A Target Stick
In this clip you will view all three of our new additions learning to follow a target stick to enter and exit the carrier. This is an incredibly positive approach to carrier training. In addition, you see me implement play as well as emphasize the importance of the carrier being “benign” by existing in the […]
Train Your Cat to Target Using Their Nose
In this video viewers will learn how to teach their cat to touch a target with their nose. This can later be a useful gesturing tool to get the cat to follow the target to where you would like them to go such as in to their cat carrier! This is a basic foundation behavior […]
Train Your Cat to Ride a Skateboard!
In this short video I explain the basics on how to teach your cat to be a little thrasher! Be sure you have the basics down on how to target train before you get started. The “Training” playlist on this You Tube channel or the Training and/or How To videos page on my website should […]
How to Teach Your Cat to Target a Mat and a Stool
This video will teach you the basic techniques of target training. As a special bonus, watch to the end to see Satu jumping through hoops from stool to stool! Training your cats is easier than you light think, fun, mentally enriching and of course, each and every session has a little bit of medication training!
Teaching the “Up-Down” Pattern Game to Cats
Pattern games are a simple set of exercises that provide a predictable and secure structure for animals in order to help them normalize changes in their environment (potential “triggers” for reactive cats). Patterns are safe, predictable, repetitive, voluntary and normalizing! Pattern games were created by Leslie McDevitt for use with reactive dogs, but there is […]
Training the “Whiplash Turn” Pattern Game With Cats
Pattern games are a simple set of exercises that provide a predictable and secure structure for animals in order to help them normalize changes in their environment (potential “triggers” for reactive cats). Patterns are safe, predictable, repetitive, voluntary and normalizing! Pattern games were created by Leslie McDevitt for use with reactive dogs, but there is […]
Sunday morning clicker training fun at our house (complete with bloopers)!
This is just a cute and hilarious video of our cats performing their tricks. You’ll see them do well and then we roll into complete chaos. Just fun and inspirational. Training increases confidence and is a great way to have fun with your cats and build a bond! Give it a try!
Tabby Tunes – Hitch and Finn Play Piano
Training can be so much fun and so incredibly cute! Once you teach the basics it’s easy to build upon that and train all kinds of cool tricks, like playing a children’s piano! Training can be for purpose and for enrichment. Remember it is just as important to exercise their brains as well as their […]
Finn demonstrates “recall,” a life saving behavior to train!
Cats can be trained, yes it is true! One of the most important behaviors you could teach is recall or “come when called”. This could save your cats life if they ever got outside unexpectedly or were about to dart towards danger. It can also help you find them in the home when you cannot […]
Willow Skating and Giving “10”
I make a lot of mistakes as a trainer in this video. The timing of my rewards are not great and I even miss a few entirely! Willow had only learned how to give “ten” just the day before. We were both still learning. I share this because it is important to have realistic expectations, […]
Willow clicker training at 5 months
This clip is an example of how well positive reinforcement can work to train your cats and kittens. Willow started young and she is very eager and focused, but older cats can learn new things too! In this video Willow: goes to mat, goes to stool, sits, sits up, spins, goes through a tunnel, rides […]
Soren clicker training at 5 months
Soren’s clicker training performance at just 5 months of age! He does everything just as well as Willow but slower and with slightly less enthusiasm. He is just an easy going guy! It is interesting to see their differences. Do not be discouraged, they are all individuals!
Clicker training hi-five to a BUNCH of cats!
This clip is from the early days. Please note it is best to work with each cat individually. This is a little chaotic but also quite fun!
