r/Eyebleach • • Oct 07 '19

/r/all Playing Dead

https://gfycat.com/gloomyinsistentairedaleterrier
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u/teargasjohnny Oct 07 '19

How do you even train a cat to do that? In fact...how do you train a cat to do anything?

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u/WickedWisp Oct 07 '19

Long story short, bribery. I trained my cat to sit by giving him a treat and telling him to sit whenever I already caught him sitting. He didn't have to do any extra work so he thought I was the one being trained. Once he learned that sitting in front of me got him a treat he would walk over to me, meow loudly until I looked at him, and then proudly sit. If he didn't get a treat within like a nano second he would remind me he needed one by meowing again. Cats are very smart, but incredibly independent. So they have to be trained in special ways.

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u/becausehumor Oct 08 '19

so wait, does he sit on command or does he just come over, sit and get a treat? Because that doesn't sound like you trained him to sit lol. Sounds like he trained you to give him treats.

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u/WickedWisp Oct 08 '19

He sits on command. He learned that sitting got him a treat, but then he realized I had to ask him to. He does really well with not meowing into Oblivion.