>> ^messenger:

@robbersdog49
That's what I was hoping for. If I play with a cat, a stick is fun sometimes, but I really want to wrestle with them, ideally as rough as we both can without hurting each other at all. How do you "show" your cats them where the line is?


A good firm 'No!' and a little bop on the head (a tap on the top of the head with a finger) and then stop the play. Pretty much what their mother does too . Stopping playing is probably the biggest factor for the kitten. Saying 'No' in a firm voice re-enforces their understanding of the word.

The proviso here is that you need to be consistent, and this ideally needs to be from an early age. The cats need to know that you are the boss. My wife is not a very good disciplinarian with the cats, she's too soft with them and they know it. The ironic thing is that she spends more time shouting at them than I do, because they already know to do what I say. Not because I beat them (the finger tap on the head is as physical as it gets) but because I'm consistent and try not to send mixed messages. Cats are surprisingly trainable. The reason people think they aren't is because people think they aren't. No-one tries, so the cats don't do as they say and they assume it's the cat's fault. My cats all know what 'No' means and it is effective preemptively too. They also know what 'out' means and 'down' and so on. Ask most cat owners how they get their cat out of a room it shouldn't be in and they'll roll their eyes and tell you about running around, trying to prize the cat out from under the sofa or off the top of the curtains. I just open the door and say a loud firm 'out', and out they go

The final proviso is that all cats are different. None of my cats would scratch or bite a person unless extremely provoked (and I mean extreme). But they don't all like to play fight. Kittens will always be game for it, but some grow out of it. You'll really get to know the cats as they grow up and you can figure out what they like and don't like.

You can correct behaviour in older cats, but it's a lot harder than starting with a kitten and getting it right from the start.

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>> ^Sketch:

dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Amazing-Hand-Dance-by-Suzanne-Cleary-and-Peter-Harding

Might you know where I can find it? Thanks
>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

d-d-d-d-d-d DUPE. good nonetheless

>> ^eric3579:

Anyone know what song this is?


the original is "Tu vuo' fa' l'americano" by Renato Carosone, don't know who remixed this though.

and because I can't stop myself from gettin' up and dancin'

>> ^Sagemind:

I've got to put dance on this one for the choreography.

Thanks,geo! We seem to enjoy the same stuff

In reply to this comment by geo321:
Very cool! *promote

Thought of you when I found this. http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=s2kxltonsp

Do you happen to know what song this is? http://videosift.com/video/Amazing-Table-Drumming-and-Finger-Tapping

Right Now:
Van Halen was wishing that Eddie wasn't such a big-headed ultra-ego-maniac and let down his guard and actually do something different than the finger-taps and dive-bombs on the whammy-bar that he's been doing over and over and over and over for the past 25 years. DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT!

Bah...one trick pony.