Clicker training is a valuable tool for teaching your cat fun new tricks, and for helping to manage unwanted behaviors.
Cats
Feline Frenzies
By KPCT on 10/22/2006My cat gets in these "frenzies," dashing across the apartment, leaping onto the window sill, and it takes quite a bit of time for her to calm down. Is there an application of the clicker method that would help? I suspect she is very uncomfortable during these frenzies and I don't know how to help her relax.
Your cat can do WHAT?
The cat: independent, strong-willed, often aloof. Not exactly training material, right?
Cat Training Overview
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Herding Cats in Hollywood
By Miranda Hersey Helin on 06/01/2006Samantha Martin has been training animals for commercials and films for 15 years. Based in the Chicago area, she has crawled through the subway stations of New York, demonstrated trained rats in Rome for national television, and trained chickens to crow, cluck, flap wings, and hover over chicks on cue for an award-winning documentary. Her raccoon shoots baskets, her groundhog raises a flag, and her duck plays a guitar and drums. And then she has cats—20 of them—which she trains for films and commercials. The Rockcats, starring Dakota, Pinky, Waldo, Tuna, and Nue, take turns playing drums, guitar, and piano. Recently we talked to Samantha about her career and her success with clicker training.
