This Cat Should Have Been a Dog

• Jezebel
  November 9th, 2007 at 11:48 am

  I managed to teach my cat tricks as well! He knew sit, liedown, shake, and we were working on roll over when he became ill.

  Nice to see some other sweet cats like him out there

• Pat J
  November 9th, 2007 at 12:20 pm

  I taught our family cat to catch her little toy mouse. She’d only do it for me, though.

• SiteSeer
  November 9th, 2007 at 12:24 pm

  “You da cat.”

• Britt
  November 9th, 2007 at 12:33 pm

  Man, I hope that cat never dies.

• Alex
  November 9th, 2007 at 2:44 pm

  It’s unnatural. The cat’s probably planning how to kill the owner in the middle of the night.

• Dani
  November 9th, 2007 at 5:10 pm

  Incredible!, My car simply ignores me.

• Noadi
  November 9th, 2007 at 6:33 pm

  Cats are very capable of learning tricks but most people never try to teach their cats any tricks because they think they can’t. My cats sit on command and a few other things, they’re a little harder to teach than dogs because they aren’t as easy to bribe with treats. Some people even train their cats to use a toilet instead of the litter box (I won’t go that far).

• Ali S.
  November 9th, 2007 at 7:00 pm

  @ Dani

  Your car?! I do hope you mean cat…if not…that’s gotta be a new model of a car.

  My sisters cat would always greet her and her husband when they come home and then pretend they don’t exist afterwards.

• Jerry
  November 9th, 2007 at 8:06 pm

  It’s NOT unnatural… it’s just putting in some work and giving the animal some attention and praise.

  I’ve had cats that would sit, sit up (beg), come and fetch.

  We’ve even gotten our current pet RABBIT to do some tricks like beg and carrying a plastic pumpkin.

  The OWNER is the limitation, not the animal….

• Miss Cellania
  November 9th, 2007 at 8:12 pm

  Jerry, I would really like to see a picture of your rabbit carrying a plastic pumpkin!

• The Slapster
  November 10th, 2007 at 1:19 pm

  I originally thought it was just responding to the hand motions for “giving five” but the Roll Over command was only verbal, very well done!

• just a guy
  November 10th, 2007 at 3:59 pm

  So this is what Mrs. Patrelli does when she’s not looking after Peter or Nathan!

• Slappy
  November 10th, 2007 at 7:32 pm

  Hey, good eye, I see the resemblance to Patrelli

• HP
  November 11th, 2007 at 6:09 pm

  I taught my cat how to beg for tuna and now he begs to get tuna.

• algonkin
  November 13th, 2007 at 1:06 pm

  Very nice!…I have two cats and they both are quite intelligent.

• leticia
  November 15th, 2007 at 10:22 pm

  wow! that´s “all” she have?
  i can not teach my cat anything! hehehe

• marhawkman
  November 17th, 2007 at 3:48 pm

  Cool! Next teach it “search and destroy”. Show it a picture of a rodent/bird, tell it “seek”, then wait for it to find one and bring it back. Hehe…. I wish.

• Chloe
  November 23rd, 2007 at 10:38 pm

  That woman looks just like Cherie Blair.

• SmudgieGirl
  January 9th, 2008 at 10:15 pm

  At the moment i am teaching my cat to jump through a hoop. I have a plastic hoop and i hold it upright and hold a treat. I move the treat through the hoop and the cat follows. Once she is ALL the way through i give her the treat while saying “jump”. After she gets the hang of it i move it about an inch above the floor and repeat the whole process. Eventually you will get your cat to jump through it when it is about a foot off the ground.

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