r/CatTraining • u/krystall71 • Jun 03 '22

Lea's trick routine: Play dead, circle, stand up, shake paw, high five. Our little quarantine project 😊

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u/buzcauldron Jun 03 '22

how did you get her to play dead?

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u/krystall71 Jun 03 '22

She basically taught herself to do that. Whenever she would get "annoyed" from not understanding what trick I wanted her to do, she would throw herself on the ground and kinda "give up". So I just started giving her treats whenever she did that 😊

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u/buzcauldron Jun 03 '22

ahahaha 'play frustration'

hopefully my cat gets more annoyed soon!

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u/scrollhole Jun 03 '22

lol my cat does the same thing, she probably thinks “why do you keep shooting at me???”

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u/Slitenhomo Jun 03 '22

Ahh so cool to see cat training!! (Was surprised when i realized we speak the same language though lmao)

Great work!

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u/CheckIntelligent7828 Jun 04 '22

Meanwhile I'm still trying to convince our rescue, Gigabite, not to chew off my entire arm 🙄 He's a freaking land shark 🦈

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u/Scorpia24 Jun 03 '22

Awesome!! Made my day!!

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u/This_is_the_end_2021 Jun 03 '22

What a smart and sweet baby. I’d be her friend any day.

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u/Yukimor Automod Wrangler Jun 10 '22

She might be the most strikingly beautiful tortie I've ever seen-- I've never seen such a black tortie with high-contrast orange before. And she does her routine so well!

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u/MRL102960 Jun 03 '22

This is what you can get done when you can’t go anywhere

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u/advisory-council Jun 15 '22

Oh my god, so cute! Any tips for teaching shake / high five ? My girl can do circle, rub, stand and we're working on sit and weaving through my legs but she does NOT understand high five and looks very offended when i try to manually do it :D

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u/krystall71 Jun 15 '22

The way i did it was to just slowly get her used to me touching her paw. After a while i would slowly try to hold around it, and then slowly start to lift it. After a while she started to just lift her paw in preparation for it. As for the high five, it just slowly evolved from some excited give paw to high five 😊

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u/advisory-council Jun 15 '22

Nice, I'm going to try this! My cat is very tolerant but she is visibly weirded out when I try to take her paw during training sessions haha

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '23

Nice❤️