How Does Cat Pet Training Work?
Many cat owners are probably not aware that cat pet training can actually work. You can train cats to do lots of things but there are certain things that will be very challenging.
If you want your cat to fetch you your morning paper, fetch a stick that you have thrown or rollover and play dead, then don't buy a cat, get yourself a dog.
Training your cat is a million miles away from training a dog. A cat by its very nature is a creature of independence, but cats, like many other animals are reward orientated, they work on a "what's in it for me" attitude. Throw a stick for a cat to fetch and it will look at you and think "what do I want the stick for? If it's important to you, well you fetch it".
Don't use punishment as a method for training your cat, it will associate "punishment" with you, and it will start to avoid you. The only way to train your cat is by reward. This is about giving your cat a reward when it does something that you want it to, not when it does something that you don't want it to.
Punishing your cat when it misbehaves is the wrong approach, you will get further by ignoring what it has done and depriving your cat of any attention, each time it misbehaves. Although it is not always obvious, cats do need and want praise from you. Cats are clever creatures and need interesting things to do to stop them becoming bored. When your cat misbehaves and you don’t supply any attention or stimulus, it will register this in its brain, and your cats problems with behaviour can increase.
However cat pet training will work when you give your cat rewards, attention, and stimulus. You give the cat this every time you see it doing something right. Give your cat lots of attention and a treat if it uses it's litter tray. When it uses it's scratching post instead of your couch, reward it with attention and some treats. Your cat will soon learn that it will get some kind of reward for behaving in a particular way.
From when your cat is a kitten, make sure that you spend plenty of time with it and offer it plenty of attention, so that it becomes normal for you to act in this way with your cat. Your cat will soon learn that it gets treats and praise by doing certain things, and gets nothing by doing other things.
Cat pet training does work, it’s just a question of doing the right things, and knowing how your cat’s mind works, realise this and cat training becomes easier.
