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Uploaded by on Oct 22, 2007

Edited training footage.

Body handling on a table. Light manipulation, beginning restraint.

This is also a practical application of Zen or "Leave It". I keep the treats on the table right in front of him, as a focus point, and hand him one after each click.

To learn more about cat training, check out:
http://www.clickertraining.com/cattraining
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Cat-Clicker/

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  • Wow, very nice, he is a purring machine! Looks very happy and fit too.

    Sorry the question, but is he neutered? I heard its harder to train neutered cats.

  • Yes, he is neutered. I don't know enough about how that affects trainability in cats in general to comment on it.

  • Sherlock used to be very good at letting people (vets) do things to him; unfortunately we at one point went over his threshold with several painful procedures in a row. So I'm rebuilding his confidence right now, first with me and then with others "poking" at him. I consider it an important health benefit to be able to avoid anesthesia whenever possible, not least as a cat gets older.

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  • excellent work. Very good with the timing and rewarding.

  • You're really good at training him! Nice job!

  • Thanks for the reply! How is Sherlock?

  • Oh so wonderful!! If only I knew about this when I first got my cats. Fortunately, they taught me and led me to cat training. THANKS I'm going to add this one to the yahoogroup cat-clicker training files!

  • This is a wonderful video, very helpful. Sherlock seems to be purring and enjoying himself the whole time; great way to prove that clicker training is the best! Sherlock is gorgeous- shiny coat, nice muscle tone. You're very lucky to have such a cat...

  • Thanks! Interesting video. That is certainly one big advantage to showing cats - they get used to being invasively handled by a variety of people. (Much more so than dogs, incidentally.)

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