Can cats be trained? Is it hard to train a cat? In this episode, cat behaviour consultant John Wiles helps tabby cat Bobby demonstrate the basics of clicker training.
Up next, John is gonna show us how to train your cat out of unwanted behavior and you'll find that when you do this, your cat becomes a more loving and well-balanced animal. Clicker training is mostly for dogs, but how did you clicker train your cats? Okay well, clicker training is multi-species; it really got its origin from training dolphins; that's what they're using the whistle for. And what the clicker does, it makes a sound to mark a point, so you want that cat to remember that point, and the first thing you've got to do is you've gotta get what they call charging the clicker, so what you do is, you have the cat there and some treats; your cat's hungry and you've got the best treats available, and you click, treat. click, treat. so right away you do that several times, maybe seven or eight times to start with, give the cat a break, go back and do another session. seven or eight times again, click it. And what you're doing is, the cat knows that when it hears that sound, you want to mark something that the cat's done that you want, and two, when that sound hits, they're going to get a treat, so if the cat, say, just sits down all of a sudden, as soon as the bum hits the floor, boom. The cat knows the sound, and it knows that something they did was doing it right. The key thing with the clicker is you want to make sure that the sound of the clicker doesn't upset the cat. You can use a clicker; some have two settings, some have one; you can use a ball point, you know, a flick pen. As long as you're consistent with the sound. The cat sat down and what's happening is that the cat will understand when that click happens, the behavior they're doing, they're going to be given the treat, the reward for the treat. So at that point once the cat is fully expecting to get a treat to the sound of that clicker, you wait until the cat does something that you want them to do. So the cat's standing on your table, gets off the table, right as they get off, the cat hits the ground, treat. And then you keep replaying the behavior over and over again. You can do any behavior. Sitting down is an easy one to do. So if the cat sits, click, treat, and then you coax the cat to to sit again. Click, treat. You keep doing that until it happens every time. After that you want to have the behaviour happen without reinforcement. So what you'll do, you'll have the cat sit, no treat. Right away the cat's like, okay, I didn't get my treat. They want their treat, so you do it again and they'll readily sit, click, treat. Once that's very reliable you want to add a cue to it, so you might want to say sit, and the cat sits. Click, treat. And then pretty soon you keep doing that and then after awhile the act will sit reliably when you say the word sit. So let's use the table top as an example. You might get a box and then you treat the cat standing on a box, you get the cat to stand down, you go down! or you somehow guide the cat to go down. Click, treat. Once the cat's reliably getting down when you say down, click, treat so when the cat gets onto the table, you just say down, click,treat. You'll have to do some other modifications around that too because the clicker's part of a program, it's not going to be the whole thing, so you would have to do other things too, which would be a whole other interview. And then you just treat every once in awhile because treating every time is not as effective as treating every few times where they don't really know what it is. You don't treat every other time. you treat indiscriminately, that way they're always working to try and get it. If they know they're going to get the treat every time, they may not be as willing to do it. Turn around, okay sit. Sit. Okay, no; sit sit sit sit. No, no; paws down. That's it. Click. Here you go. I've often heard different people comment on how healthy Bobby looks, and that other people look at it and think he's way too thin. How do we know when our cats are the right weight, whether they're too thin or too heavy, whether they're eating too much or not enough? John will help us answer these questions and more in next week's segment.
Bobby is a rescue cat from Toronto Canada. BobCat's Playground shares how Bobby's humans are helping him live his best life! Follow Bobby on his life journey and learn the techniques that we humans can use to keep our feline friends happy, healthy and fulfilled. Help him save the world, one cat at at time.
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