How to teach your cat to "shake hands"

This is how I taught our cat to "shake" on command. It's a really easy trick to teach. Just hold a hand flat out with food in it, a little bit above your cat's face. Your cat will use a paw to push the hand down to mouth level. When your cat does this, say "shake" and let your cat eat the treat. Once your cat gets the hang of it, you can start doing this without the treat in your hand. Keep your training sessions short, because cats have a short attention span for this kind of stuff!

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Pets & Animals

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• cat
• tricks
• training
• kitten

[kuntula25]

I can see the small piece of shit on ur hand!! Haha

[shibapa]

@kuntula25 That's cat food. Thanks for doing your hard work in keeping YouTube comments to their usual standards.

[JSWIZZL3]

I'm going to try and teach my cat this. Even though she just smells your hand and licks it. :l

[shibapa]

@JSWIZZL3 When they're first learning, they will do stuff like that. It's okay. Just make sure to reward the behavior you want with the treat. Once they get better at it they'll skip the behaviors that don't lead to the treat and just do the shake. If you look in my youtube account you can see a video of her after she's had some practice to see the difference.

[pinkbladeanime]

@DaInstinct16 how can this be fake? silly troll -_-

[DaInstinct16]

FAKE AND GAY

[JSWIZZL3]

@shibapa I was teaching her to sit today and we *had* packs of treats, so i gave her a treat every time she did it. except we left the house for 4 hours and she managed to find them and tear the packet apart. :/

[shibapa]

@bulletboy211 I suggest trying to encourage the behavior you want instead. What I would do is, start to reward your cat simply for taking food from your hand without biting you. Once your cat figures out that not biting = food and biting = no food, your cat will probably stop biting you. BUT if your cat has serious damage to its feet that cause it chronic pain (like if your cat is declawed) it might avoid using its paws to pull your hand down because any pressure on its hands causes it bad pain.