Has anyone tried this with their cats? Does anyone want to try this with their cats? Has anyone tried this, and unlike me, had success with it?
I thought perhaps I'd start a "journal" or thread about it to hopefully keep track of what we're doing that is successful, or in my case, completely unsuccessful...
Thus far I've had three sessions. The first one I didn't lock the other kitties up, and we had mass convergence on the treats. It seems rather impossible to associate the food with the click when you have multiple lunatics frantically trying to get at the food..
The second session, I tried to do while my son was down. I no sooner started clicker training and he pulled out the cat toys and started playing... so much for that clicker session.
The third session I put most of the cats in "lockup" so that I could concentrate on working with one (and possibly Bagheera too since she can't be locked up without me sustaining multiple and vicious wounds).. and while I had the attention for a moment, Khan then put up such a fuss in the carrier that he distracted the target (which happened to be Bagheera since I can't contain her).. from the training.
So, I'm now trying to figure out a way to make it easy to "concentrate" for the target cat. I have no particular room that I can use that can be closed off from the rest, and I have no really practical way to close the cats off (which leaves the rest subject to distractions).
So my next move is figuring out how to continue training (or technically, I guess that would be *start* training since I haven't been effective).
I thought perhaps I'd start a "journal" or thread about it to hopefully keep track of what we're doing that is successful, or in my case, completely unsuccessful...
Thus far I've had three sessions. The first one I didn't lock the other kitties up, and we had mass convergence on the treats. It seems rather impossible to associate the food with the click when you have multiple lunatics frantically trying to get at the food..
The second session, I tried to do while my son was down. I no sooner started clicker training and he pulled out the cat toys and started playing... so much for that clicker session.
The third session I put most of the cats in "lockup" so that I could concentrate on working with one (and possibly Bagheera too since she can't be locked up without me sustaining multiple and vicious wounds).. and while I had the attention for a moment, Khan then put up such a fuss in the carrier that he distracted the target (which happened to be Bagheera since I can't contain her).. from the training.
So, I'm now trying to figure out a way to make it easy to "concentrate" for the target cat. I have no particular room that I can use that can be closed off from the rest, and I have no really practical way to close the cats off (which leaves the rest subject to distractions).
So my next move is figuring out how to continue training (or technically, I guess that would be *start* training since I haven't been effective).