Posts tagged cat training benefits
Cat Titles and Training: What’s the Point?

Training your cat is one of the best ways to build a strong relationship with them. Actively interacting with your cat not only helps boost their mental wellbeing, but your cat will also positively associate solving puzzles and training with getting rewards from you. Peak Purrformance is the official certifying body for cats that provides certifications in cat tricks, sports, and cat behavior.

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Is Toilet Training Right for Your Cat?: 10 Factors to Consider

What if I told you that you would never have to clean the litter box again if you toilet trained your cat? Toilet training your cat in and of itself is not particularly hard, it is a bit time consuming but so is cleaning the litter box every day. It sounds like a pretty sweet deal. Yet if you were to walk into a room full of cat owners and ask them their opinion on toilet training you would get many impassioned answers from “yes, it's fantastic and I will never go back to litter boxes!” to “it is unethical and I would never toilet train my cat!” to “I tried to but my cat scratched up my toilet!”.

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The Stupid Party Trick: Why I Trick Train Cats

When I train animals, there are people who get snarky and ask me why we’re working on “party tricks.” These people want “real world” applications to training. Here’s the thing. Every trick that you work on with your cat has a real world application.

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