Cats hardly give in to training. It does not mean that it is impossible to train them at all. Stock up with patience, and you teach the pet to various tricks. Only do not forget that cats are capricious therefore coercion will not lead to anything.
Instruction
1. Begin to train a cat from the smallest age. To train an adult cat who lived with you five years and did not even suspect about existence of any tricks it is almost useless. It is better to begin from 7-8 months. At such age a kitten already rather bright to understand what from it is required. However it is possible to try to train even a three-months kitten.
2. Observe the pet some time before beginning training. Pay attention to its habits and tendencies, addictions in food, favourite games and toys. These observations will help you to understand to what tricks your cat will study easier and quicker. Decide what it is better to begin training with. For example, begin with jumps through obstacles if your kitten likes to jump constantly on furniture, or teach her to bring objects if she drags the toys in teeth all the time.
3. Encourage a cat. For each correct action the reward is supposed. It is usually simple to stroke or scratch insufficiently behind an ear therefore lay up tasty cat's delicacies. Constantly encouragement will help to enhance quality of the trained skill and will fix training in a trick.
4. Train a cat only when she is hungry. On a full stomach to train is not present special sense as the reward in the form of delicacy will cease to attract a cat. Never punish the pet for incorrectly executed command.
5. Do not force to do a cat what she does not want to do at all. If your pet flatly refuses to carry out a trick, do not continue a training. Otherwise at a cat the permanent disgust for training in general can develop. It is better just to try to train an animal in other trick. Also you remember that the cat has to have an attitude, good to you. The mistrust and dislike will lead to the fact that the cat will refuse to fulfill any your requirements and requests.
6. You carry out training step by step. Always you praise a cat for command execution. The praise, undoubtedly to be pleasant to her, and it will carry out already learned trick again and again again to achieve incentive prizes. The best food encouragement is a meat. Do not forget to cut it into small pieces. The piece is less, the it is longer possible to train a cat. The dry feed will not always approach as your pet will be busy with a long razgryzaniye of a forage and can forget about a training.
7. Begin with the simplest teams, and already then you pass to more difficult. The To Me team is very simple. It is enough to approach a kitten you, and he will receive a desired award. This team will remind a cat appeals on feeding. Some more options of simple tricks: "To sit", "Dai a pad", "Bring", "Stand". You say team aloud and support words with gestures. If you teach a cat to the Sit team, slightly press a hand a back part of a body. Ordering "to Stand", give a hand forward that it served as an obstacle for a cat. The Dai Pad team assumes that the animal will stretch a paw independently, but at first you should take the pet's paw in a palm.
8. If you see that the animal was tired, stop further training. The tired pet with hunting will not carry out tricks.