Manny the Selfie Cat!

[rickr]

If you haven't seen Manny and his amazing selfies, it's quite a hoot.   Be sure to click thru the slide show; there are many great pictures.  Manny is quite talented.  Now I have to see if I can train Archie to operate a camera.

https://www.yahoo.com/makers/this-c...ternet-sensation-manny-the-1453730315610.html

 

[margd]

Those are hilarious!

 

[goholistic]

They are funny! He's quite the character....and also a photo bomber it seems! 

 

[plan]

Manny takes better photos than I do.

 

[misterwhiskers]

Manny takes better photos than I do.

Me too! How do you train a cat to do this, I wonder?

 

[plan]

Me too! How do you train a cat to do this, I wonder?

I swear by this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/user/CatTrainerToo

I watched a few of his basic instructional videos to teach my cat to sit on command, high five and fist bump, and to obey certain commands. Basically, the dude is a dog trainer who decided to adopt a cat and tried a variation of his dog-training methods with the cat. It worked really well, and then he realized his cat videos were going viral, and here we are a few years later and he's putting out amazing videos of his cat skateboarding, as well as some awesome instructional videos.

 

[rickr]

 
I swear by this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/user/CatTrainerToo

What a great collection of training videos!  I watched several of them; short and to the point.  I used clicker training to teach Archie to sit on a stool while I'm working in the kitchen (he likes to get underfoot).  The approach seems to work really well.

 

[dennis47]

This is just too funny! He takes better pics than I do!

 

[junglecat]

Manny is gorgeous and so talented with taking selfies! I need to take some lessons from him!

 

[plan]

 
What a great collection of training videos!  I watched several of them; short and to the point.  I used clicker training to teach Archie to sit on a stool while I'm working in the kitchen (he likes to get underfoot).  The approach seems to work really well.

And the nice thing is, the process is a lot easier than you'd think. (Or at least, it is for me.) When I first saw this stuff, I thought for sure those tricks were the result of long, arduous training sessions, but what I like about Robert in particular is that he breaks it down and makes it look easy. I also like his advice to keep it short and sweet, just 10-15 minutes of training time or less per session. Cats are surprisingly quick learners.

 

[rickr]

 
And the nice thing is, the process is a lot easier than you'd think. <snip>

Indeed. It's easy and cats seem to enjoy it.  We had so much fun.  They looked forward to it everyday.