Cat training is not always easy, but it is possible. Though your cat may seem too independent and stubborn to change its behavior, you can get the job done if you make a commitment to the right strategies.
There are a few basic tents of successful training about whichever cat owner should be aware. Let us look at three of those cat training fundamentals:
The Need for Immediacy
Cats are incredibly smart animals, but they do not necessarily make the same kind of connections people do with respect to cause and effect. That is why it is essential to take action immediately when you observe inappropriate behavior. If your response is delayed by even a few seconds, it will lose a great deal of its effectiveness.
Never assume that your cat will remember what it did earlier in a day or that the cat will make any connection between your discipline and past behavior. Rarely, if ever, will that happen. If you correct your pet for something it did earlier, it will have no idea of why it is being corrected and may incorrectly link your actions to the behavior displayed immediately before you took action.
Encouraging Alternative Behaviors
One of the best ways to teach your cat not to engage in an undesirable behavior is to encourage the animal to do something else instead. This strategy works even better when the encouraged behavior is completely incompatible with the undesired action. This technique works because cats, like all animals, are more responsive to positive reinforcement.
You will have greater success encouraging and rewarding what you would like to see than you will by trying to stop what you do not. Instead of discouraging your cat from scratching a table leg, encourage your pet to exercise that instinct on its scratching post!
Avoiding Physical Discipline
Physical punishment will not contribute to successful cat training. Negative reinforcements do not work well for cats and hitting or otherwise physically reprimanding your pet will only make your relationship more difficult while inspiring unnecessary fear in the animal.
Cats are not always the easiest animals to train, but if one approaches the project with the right attitude and strategies, it is possible to direct a cat’s behavior. The three elements of cat training we’ve discussed all share features common to all successful techniques–they are all based on the understanding that positive reinforcement offers the greatest chance of success and that cat owners should always use the least aggressive means of correcting behavior.
Those three rules of thumb are at the very core of smart cat training.
Liz Barton
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#1 by madisonblly on August 15th, 2009
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I think successful people don’t follow the rules and live life their own way .?
It almost seems that we are trained as a child go to school get a job work for the system. Many succsesful actors were highschool dropouts-tomcruise billybob thortnon jim carrey bruce willis.
All of these kinds of people they dont have to be actors live life by their own rules and just seem to be the ones who have all of the money all of the credentials related to success like wit freesprit
and the gal to go for your dreams and not listesn to others.
Who agrees that all really succsful people dont follow the systems traditional training live life by their own rules and usually succeed?
#2 by engel on August 15th, 2009
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"The only thing that gets in the way of my learning is my education." -Einstein
I caution you, there are far more examples of people who have tried what these guys have and failed. However, it does not take money to be successful or happy. Go where YOUR path takes you, just beware the loose footing.
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#3 by yummygood on August 15th, 2009
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I see what you’re saying. I agree. Successful people dare to be different. As far as being highschool drop-outs, not many successful people are drop-outs. It’s always best to have an education to fall back on. Even the professional atheletes know that. Make your own rules but be wise with your decisions. Good luck to you.
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#4 by in_crueger on August 15th, 2009
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successful people are people who know what they want.
be it follow the rules or not.
rules are just made to guide us through life. follow it too much then you’ll end up nowhere and not developed to your full potential.
in the words of einstein :
success = work + play + keeping your mouth shut
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#5 by costa on August 15th, 2009
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there’re successful people who follow and there’re also those who don’t follow.
it’s quite normal and not unexpectable for people who follow conventional routes to become someone, but for people who don’t go by the conventional route but still become successful someday, they’re like out of the norm or considered ‘special’ and have some interesting stories to tell (interesting, cos it’s different from the population), that’s why they leave a deeper impression in people’s mind.
also, there’re also people who tend away from the norm due to their burning desire and eagerness to fulfill their own dreams. this form of determination is like a shortcut for them.
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i guess so
#6 by y2kguyarea51 on August 15th, 2009
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Why follow rules that are only there to continue benefiting the people who least deserve it? Why not be different, do your own thing, think in ways that you fashion that brings about originality. That’s what stands out amongst all the copycats that only TRY to be successful. They TRY only because they don’t have a natural knack for it. To me, following what someone successful does, only hinders your own successes. Because now you aren’t being original, you’re just a copycat, like the 10 million other people trying to mimmick what someone like Bruce Willis does.
They became what they were by being themselves, and creating their own ways for being original. Bragging, talking about yourself alot, things you’ve achieved even if you took great pride in accomplishing those goals is frowned upon. Only because people will think you just like to toot your own horn, and to be honest, noone cares about things you’ve done in your life, no matter if they say they do or not.
So by accomplishing great things, and then keeping quiet about it, you allow your admirers to seek out that information about you that makes you unique. Bragging about your accomplishments is nothing short of gossip, your word. If people don’t know you that well they certainly won’t take your word for how you think you are, just like any other time. So to me, successful people, the real meaning of the word success is people that found their niche, went with it, and are now reaping the rewards.
The problem most people have in following what someone else has done is time. People don’t want to take the extra time to be original, so they fall through the cracks and are forgotten. Being your own best self is the true key to ones own success. Weather you follow the rules or not of typical society is up to you, but to ignore some of those pesky rules can take on a huge benefit for you.
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