should cats do tricks?

[mamasota]

buen masaje!

I could do with one too

http://castletv.net/wp-content/forumuploads/fillkat/2013/03/funny-gif-cat-massage-4.gif

 

[TallMan69]

It's amazing how cats scratch at one's head to wake up in the morning. Nature's alarm clock. Bop 'em on the head sometimes works as shut off but more often just snooze.

 

[eyer]

should cats do tricks?

Sure they should...

...as long as they can charge toms enough to provide for their liters.

 

[evesdream]

I know everyone always says this, but if I had a cat brothel I'd make sure their cut was fair and they would only sip the finest cream.

 

[evesdream]

And sorry, I meant to follow up with this, but got distracted by something shiny...

You're all right of course, cats aren't the most tractable creatures around. At one point in the performance, a cat just sat comfortably on her spangled podium in front of her "trainer" and just refused to do any tricks. Another cat started walking off the stage into the audience. The cat band was odd and interesting in a surrealist jazz kind of way.

Treats... the key to getting any cat to doing tricks. I had one once that was trained to sit up and beg for a treat (much like you would teach a dog the same trick.) He would also lie down on command (again, a treat had to be involved), and the would roll over (same incentive -- always a treat.)

I was thinking, if we could teach a cat to perform for a treat laced with kitty litter, it's a shame that we can't do better at training politicians and others in positions of authority who tend to muck things up for the rest of us...

But, then again... that's just me.

Yes! That's exactly how this performance was run (by the cats). The trainers tried to bribe them with specialty treats and, even then, the cats would only obey if they weren't doing something else they considered more interesting.

Re. cat on shoulder, Laurel, google cat on head union square and be amazed!

 

[Phelia]

I know everyone always says this, but if I had a cat brothel I'd make sure their cut was fair and they would only sip the finest cream.

When I read this post it made me want to be a kitty so I could turn tricks for you.

Re. cat on shoulder, Laurel, google cat on head union square and be amazed!

I am amazed!!!!!

It's like:

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Whoa.

 

[Phelia]

Just so everyone knows I added a white period before the smiley face so its alignment beneath the cat was more believable. Just so you all know the kind of lengths I'll go to to please you.

 

[evesdream]

Just so everyone knows I added a white period before the smiley face so its alignment beneath the cat was more believable. Just so you all know the kind of lengths I'll go to to please you.

Only the klassiest kitties in this kat house. (I think keeping it to matching letters on the signage out front will attract the better clientele, while letting folks know we're not one of those stuffy parlours.)

 

[Debbie]

I met and patted this lovely cat when a friend and I were on a motorbike charity run.

http://cimba7200.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/bikie-and-his-cat-nz-born-max-corkill.html

Sad story in the end but the cat really loved being on the bike.


"Max Corkill and Rastus made quite a team: the gentle, fuzzy-chinned bikie and his furry, bandannaed feline companion. For Rastus, a sometimes grumpy Bombay cross, happiness was cruising the highways of New Zealand atop the petrol tank of Corkill’s classic ‘50s Sunbeam motorbike wearing tiny custom-made goggles and helmet, whiskers blowing in the breeze. “Max used to have a little badge which said ‘cat chauffeur’,” says Adrian Brady, treasurer of the north Taranaki branch of NZ’s Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, a charity that benefited from the pair’s celebrity status. “He used to chauffeur this animal all over the place – and the looks they got!” But on Tuesday, Jan. 20, the duo’s long road trip came to a devastating end when another of Corkill’s bikes, a black BMW, collided head-on with a Mazda 929 sedan in the hamlet of Okoki, 25km north of New Plymouth. Corkill, 58, his pillion passenger and partner Gaynor Martin, 48, and Rastus, who was perched in his usual spot, were all killed instantly. Police have charged the 31-year-old driver of the car with two counts of manslaughter and other driving offences. Rastus had special helmets to suit the occasion. He wore a red hat with antlers for Christmas and Mr Corkill dressed up as Santa Claus. “He was one of a kind,” says friend Pastor Wally Aish, who presided over the funeral service for Corkill and Rastus in New Plymouth on Jan 23. As more than 1,000 bikers paid their respects, the pair’s matching helmets sat side-by-side on the coffin they shared. Eerily, a month earlier, Aish says, Corkill had changed his will to make provisions for Rastus when he died. The pair were cremated together. NZ-born Corkill, a panel beater and bike and car restorer, met Rastus in Canada nine years ago after the kitten was deserted at a bikie swap meet. (Corkill moved to Canada when he was 21 but returned to NZ in 1994 to look after his elderly mother.) The biking duo soon attained a following, and Rastus even had his own fan club. They had their own company selling T-shirts and a joint cheque account (Rastus used his paw to sign). Most profits went to the SPCA. “The cat was just like a person,” says John Mahoney, CEO of NZ’s Bell Tea Company, which used Corkill and Rastus in TV ads. “He used to come into the offices here and make himself at home”. Rastus “would drink tea out of a cup [milk, no sugar] and would get quite test when you took it away.” As mourners filled the chapel to honour Corkill and Rastus, the hymn All Things Bright and Beautiful played in tribute to the mateship between the two. “Rastus was great, he was unique,” recalls Brady. “This cat was a real bikie.”

I personally wouldn't let my cat do that but my cat is wary of my car so he isn't likely to want to ride on a motorbike.


Can my cat do tricks? No, he's spoiled and has me trained for the most part.

I turn up when he calls.
I open the door for him when he wants in or out.
I feed him when he cries.


The one trick he does is to pat your hand with his paw when he wants to be patted or you're ignoring him.

 

[evesdream]

That's the bitter-sweetest cat story I've ever read, Debbie.

 

[Adre]

The best cat trick ever was when the tiger bit Roy Horn in the neck. All circus animals should attack their handlers.

 

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