Me thinks I'm going to break out the clicker and see if my six year old Bengal is anywhere near as smart as this bad boy is... He needs the exercise... he has become a bed potato since Falcon joined the family.
I think a click would work better with a cat then voice. I don't think I'm accurate enough with my pitch/tone... I may join Barbara and Aaron and grab the clicker. Load it up with Lily tonight, and see where we are in a week! (I don't have a super cool Bengal though. Just a good old DSH. Pretty tabby though!)
I taught my cat to lay down and roll over for her canned food. One big thing I realized about her is that even though she appears to not be paying attention to me, she is. It might not look like they are engaged sometimes, but they are. Mine does things at an extremely slow pace. I ask her to lay down and she appears to be ignoring me, but the wheels are turning.... and after a few seconds, she will.
I don't even remember how I taught her that, but it took quite a while.
I briefly tried to clicker train my Siamese, but it didn't go so well. It is difficult because, as was pointed out by a previous poster, cats act very slowly and seem disengaged most of the time. I'm used to drivey dogs that want to learn!
But here is a cute clip of my Siamese and Mal pup. The cat is obsessed with my puppy, and will repeatedly jump into her ex-pen.
Bengals are amazing. Mine will come when called, but that's about all I ever did with him. He is a really big thief and will steal anything he can carry in his mouth - especially the bands for my hair!
Your puppy is adorable. Makes me want another Mal puppy I wish Duma (my Bengal) was as sweet with him as your siamese is. Duma and JD have a love-love relationship. Duma loves to stalk JD, leaping out of places and smacking him and then taking off and JD loves to chase him. I don't allow JD to do much more than chase him down the hall occasionally and only after Duma has repeatedly terrorized him. And if Duma doesn't run, JD doesn't chase. And when they don't think I'm watching I'll find JD giving Duma a bath.
Does your puppy really stay in the ex-pen? You're so lucky! JD started climbing out of his at 12 weeks or something like that. I had one attached to his kennel in the garage and had to make a "lid" for it or he was out and free when I'd get home. Sneaky little devil
Me thinks I'm going to break out the clicker and see if my six year old Bengal is anywhere near as smart as this bad boy is... He needs the exercise... he has become a bed potato since Falcon joined the family.
I keep saying I wish I could get one of those hamster ball things big enough to put my Bengal in so he'd have to get exercise rolling around in it! I would think with all the running and terrorizing he does around this house that he wouldn't be the toad fat little thing that he is. I've taken to calling him "Buddha Belly". He actually gets more exercise since I got JD - before that he'd spend most of his time snuggled up with me wherever I was at. Won't play with toys, either.
Does your puppy really stay in the ex-pen? You're so lucky! JD started climbing out of his at 12 weeks or something like that. I had one attached to his kennel in the garage and had to make a "lid" for it or he was out and free when I'd get home. Sneaky little devil
I only put her in the ex-pen if I'm around and don't feel like entertaining her, lol. She's really good, she caught on to not being allowed to jump on the sides very quickly, but I definitely wouldn't trust her in it unsupervised for a lengthy period of time!
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He needs the exercise... he has become a bed potato since Falcon joined the family. 
I wish Duma (my Bengal) was as sweet with him as your siamese is. Duma and JD have a love-love relationship. Duma loves to stalk JD, leaping out of places and smacking him and then taking off and JD loves to chase him. I don't allow JD to do much more than chase him down the hall occasionally and only after Duma has repeatedly terrorized him. And if Duma doesn't run, JD doesn't chase. And when they don't think I'm watching I'll find JD giving Duma a bath.
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