Yesterday I did some normal clicker training with Charlie - ie he followed the pencil around and got clicked for touching it with his paw. He'll go round in circles and get up on his small cardboard box. He'll also sort of sit up and beg - but more a leap up to try to get the chicken nibble! I need some new ideas for things to teach him to do in the clicker training sessions. He's much calmer when I go to put his harness on now. I give him a small nibble and he lets me put it on him (otherwise he'll still fight it) Then I put on the lead and tempted him around by showing him the chicken nibble. We walked through to the other side of the sitting room and then back to the kitchen. On his way to the kitchen he always tries to run and of course can't with the lead - gets brought up short and now just lies down. I think he'll get the hang of it though. I can't wait to be able to take him outside in the garden. I still need to finish off the cat-proofing - which at the moment will be mainly to keep out the other cats (Well at least Crumble from next door as she's the only one who really uses our garden. I always thought she was such a small cat till we got little Charlie and now she seems like a right bruiser. They had a 'stand-off' the other evening. Charlie was on the windowsill and Crumble on the bonnet of my car) At the end of next week Charlie will have had his final jab and so be safe (in that respect) to go out. I need to make sure that he's ok with being restricted by the lead and that he's not going to have a fit if something scary happens. Then we go on holiday for a week and I have to leave my darling baby. We're going to pay the cat sitter to come in twice a day to see him - lucky boy.
Progress in clicker training
By K8 on 07/19/2007