Jet's Furkid Palace: Like herding cats....(Frou's new trick)

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Like herding cats....(Frou's new trick)

Ok, the inspiration from this post came from Rescued Insanity. I have two kitties, and while I believe one of them is constantly controlling the world with her kitty mind and constantly has an evil look on her face, the other kitty is much more trainable.

Froufrou, who we can also call 'keg cat' loves her food and is also very attention motivated. I have taught her to jump across from the couch to the chair, to the table. As she is a keg she is not particularly athletic but I thought teaching 'hup' might help to make up for the treats she is getting. This time she is being trained with pieces of kangaroo sausage. Kangaroo is low in fat, though the sausages do have a significant amount of salt added to them. I think it's better for her waistline than cheese, and she is just as willing to work for it.

Like Shiva, Barbie likes to interfere with cat-training. She cannot resist the yummy kangaroo sausage smell.

And for those who want more doggie cuteness - here is a short clip of Barbie playing with one of her first squeaky balls - I found it when I was clearing out imovie and thought it was too cute not to share.

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Declan · 705 weeks ago

Oh that's good. I have a cat called KC, but she is evil. Mum says she will do anything for a Whiskas Temptation, but she is still evil.. She is only small but her legs are filled with concrete and so she is very heavy.. and evil. Mum says could Barbie have a word with me and tell me to be nicer to putty tats.. as I too can be a bit evil? I think this is completely unnecessary. Mum says Cat Tested? My a**e!! Deccy x

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jetsagenda 82p · 705 weeks ago

hahah Barbie came as 'cat friendly' but she used to cry at the kitties...took her about 4 weeks to stop staring at them and crying at them. I knew that she was OK with the cats when the kitties walked right past her one day. They know if the dog is nice or not.

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houndstooth4 82p · 705 weeks ago

I have a hopeless case of Frou adoration! Didn't you train her to sit with a clicker? I remember the video really distinctly!

You know that no Greyhound can resist staying out of the limelight forever! Barbie just wanted to make sure that her adoring public didn't miss her. Kangaroo sausage sounds so exotic and cool! Obviously, we don't have that here. :P

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jetsagenda 82p · 705 weeks ago

yup, clicker trained the 'hup' too, but only at first, now we just practice it.... if she was a bit more agile she could jump onto many more pieces of furniture. Mittens also tried to get in on the act by viciously clawing the couch, but I edited that bit out. I can't really use the clicker in the house if the dogs are around, they get way too excited!

Kangaroo to you guys is probably like Buffalo is to us... so exotic and straaaaange...

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unlikelyprincess 68p · 705 weeks ago

FrouFrou is so cute! I love her colouring. She looks like such a sweetheart. It's also very impressive to me that she will take treats from your hand. My cat will only eat them if I put them down on the ground. It's very sweet to say I have inspired you when really it's the other way around.

Yep. It's decided. I just need a new cat.

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jetsagenda 82p · 704 weeks ago

She is a sweetheart - she loves nothing more than food and cuddles, a lot like a smoochy dog. I cheated though - I knew what she was like before I took her home. She was a stray at a wrecking yard my dad was working at. She was about 6 months and she was sitting on my dad's desk all day, purring, and hanging out with the guys who worked there, who shared their lunches with her. She freaked out a little at being inside a house for the first time, and was scared of the TV, but when she settled down she was her purring, smoochy self.

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jan · 704 weeks ago

I love watching owners who are so quick to be trained by their cat-masters.

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jetsagenda 82p · 704 weeks ago

haha I think my Greyhound master has trained me more effectively to do her bidding....

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Greyhounds CAN Sit · 704 weeks ago

Frou Frou has got short legs, hasn't she:) And she's not just a pretty face! We can get possum dog roll but not Kangaroo:(

Frankie really liked Barbie's toy video clip. He was looking for the squeaky thing in the computer speakers:)

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jetsagenda 82p · 704 weeks ago

haha her legs would be normal length if it wasn't for her big gut!

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bighoneydog 27p · 704 weeks ago

I'm finally here! My human is helping me do this comment using her new software that types for her as she speaks, so she can rest her arms from her RSI – it's not bad,huh? But it does still make mistakes and my human has to keep stopping to correct it so it's a bit annoying and very slow – it takes us double the time to do the same thing! So please excuse any funny words or spellings in my comment!

You look very cute with your squeaky toy, Barbie! I'm not really into squeaky's myself – which my human is pretty grateful for! :-) – But we do find it funny and interesting to watch doggies who are!

Slobbers,
Honey the Great Dane

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bighoneydog 27p · 704 weeks ago

Oooh – I'm so excited that somebody else is doing Kitty training too! Now Muesli and Frou-Frou can exchange notes – ha ha! To be honest though, I'm sort of thinking of giving up on teaching Muesli the jump into my arms because it's just sort of going nowhere. She'll jump up on my lap but the minute I try to stand-up a bit more, she won't do it any more. I think cats have two strong sense of self-preservation and they won't just follow your instructions and do things on trust, like dogs will. I don't know whether she doesn't trust me to catch her or what but I'm just not progressing with that trick. On the other hand – I hate giving up!! :-)

Hsin-Yi

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jetsagenda 82p · 704 weeks ago

you can always 'postpone' to another time - I know with Bender, I can try over and over again with 5 minute sessions trying to teach him something, but it's not clicking in his brain - then I leave it for 4 weeks or more, and magically he gets it when we revisit it!

I don't think I'd trust Frou to jump into my arms - if she thinks she is going to miss then it's claws out to grab on to whatever it is and pull herself up. I really don't want her claws in my arms :P

PS that software sounds very cool and hopefully it learns quickly so that Hsin Yi can just talk at the computer the whole time!

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