What is Cat Pet Training
Many cat owners are probably not aware that cat pet training can actually work. There are limitations as to what your cat will do.
If you want your cat to fetch you your morning paper, fetch a stick that you have thrown or rollover and play dead, then don't buy a cat, get yourself a dog.
Training your cat is a million miles away from training a dog. Cats are independent animals, however they will respond to treats and rewards, basically they will want to know what is in it for them if they do something for you. Throw a stick for a cat to fetch and it will look at you and think "what do I want the stick for? if it is that valuable, then you should go get it".
Don't use punishment as a method for training your cat, it will associate "punishment" with you, and it will start to avoid you. The best way to train a cat is through rewarding it. This is about giving your cat a reward when it does something that you want it to, not when it does something that you don't want it to.
First of all you shouldn't try to punish your cat when it misbehaves in any way, a better method would be to ignore it. Although it is not always obvious, cats do need and want praise from you. Cats are clever creatures and need interesting things to do to stop them becoming bored. When your cat misbehaves and you don’t supply any attention or stimulus, it will register this in its brain, and your cats problems with behaviour can increase.
However cat pet training will work when you give your cat rewards, attention, and stimulus. When you see your cat behaving in a way that you want it to, you should then make it a habit to act in this everytime. If it uses its litter tray, make a big fuss of your cat and spend some time playing with it. When it uses it's scratching post instead of your couch, reward it with attention and some treats. Your cat will soon learn that it will get some kind of reward for behaving in a particular way.
Try to give as much attention to your cat as possible, begin this in the early days when it is still a kitten so that it gets used to this behavior. When your cat then does something that you don't want it to do, and it gets ignored, it will then focus more on the things that give it the most attention and reward.
Cat pet training does work, it’s just a question of doing the right things, and knowing how your cat’s mind works, realise this and cat training becomes easier.