Cat School is an online training school where cats can learn fun and practical behaviours. All our lessons are designed to make it easy for you to teach your cat. Created by an Applied Animal Behaviourist, Cat School uses the most progressive training methods to help you succeed.
Training is perfect for indoor cats that don't get enough enrichment and activity. Training helps to strengthen the cat-human bond and can prepare your cat for real-world experiences.
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➡️ Meet the Teacher: I'm Julie Posluns, also known as Julie, the Cat Teacher. My mission is to help people enrich their cat's life with clicker training. I am an Associate Certified Applied Animal Behaviourist (ACAAB), and I have been training animals for over a decade. I love to break complex behaviours into tiny achievable steps and show people how fun and rewarding it is to work with their cat.
my norwegien forest carries his ball in his mouth all day .his ball is with him at all times. He should be easy to teach fetch unless he decides only he can touch it. im going to see. will update
My cats struggle with plucking the treat from my fingers, they will sometimes drop it on the ground and eat it from there or plainly give up, has anyone got any tips for this?
So what if your cat doesn’t like treats which my cat will not eat too many treats I can get her to eat one once in a while, but there’s no way that she would just eat treat after the treat like that. She would look at me like I was stupid and walk away.
my cat wont follow my hand that has the treat in it, instead it just waits till i give her the treat, or it prefers a toy instead but idk how to move the toy over
How do we train our cat to stop “door-dashing”? She gets outside and it takes an hour to catch her to put her back in the house. We don’t want her outside at all.
I dont see this working well for 2 aggressive cats like mine and my boyfriend's, cant trust them to not try to lunge at the other and then writhe out of the harness when we hold the leash taught to prevent them from making contact.
It will work if you teach each cat to sit and stay at their "seat" like children in a classroom. This way, they are wearing their harnesses, PLUS they understand how to remain in their spots. The spots should be far enough away that each cat feels safe. If they are trying to approach one another, they need more distance. Follow our chair training tutorial and combine it with harness training.
did you know that having your cat go outdoors, significantly reduces their lifespan? They can freeze to death in the winter get hit by cars get attacked by other predators. Supervised is a different story though.
Did you know that walking can significantly reduce your lifespan? you could trip and hit your head, You could wak into a car, You could even walk outside and get hit by a meteorite.
This is great! I have taught my cat to do high fives and fist bumps but overall he's pretty lazy. I'm curious now if he will follow the spoon as you show in the video. I'm definitely going to try.
Is it crazy I did this without a clicker? I'm buying one now I really want to train him more but when he was a baby I'd make him spin for a treat and click my tounge!! I had no idea this clicker training existed. I'm really excited to fully train him how. My only concern is, do you have to be young to be trained? He's almost 12 months..would he be responsive to training?
Hello! I'm currenlty training two cats to a harness and leash and I was wondering if anybody has recemadations for flee protectant. In my neighborhood we have lots of other stray cats and I don't want the flees to spread.
We recently got a 7 month old kitten, but she never eats or tries treats. Her previous owners gave her dry food and wet food, we provide the same food but she will not eat the dry food at all. We have also given her new wet food with more meat which she really enjoys.
I’ve had one Siamese who saw me throwing the toy away as the reward. Didn’t put it in my hand but put it near me so I could reach it and throw it again.
Really helpful thanks. I think I need to get some of those treat tubes as I only have stuff like chicken and dried meat cubes and my cat likes to back up and chew them, and doesn't like interference whle she eats them. She's a confident and curious personality and clearly isn't scared of the presence of the harness, but she isn't a cat that likes being held (we compromise when I need to move her by her climbing on my shoulder instead of being carried), and also dislikes being touched around her chest/belly so I've been having some issues there. I'm definitely impatient too lol. I think it's because I know she'll enjoy the harness once she has the association of outdoors and exercise, but getting that association will take time.
My cat wasn’t introduced to fetch and one day he started dropping his toy and meowing so I just decided to throw his toy and since then it’s been an everyday thing. He will bring back that toy until he’s panting like a dog, then at that point he goes to tug of war. I always give treats or a meal after each play session. He’s almost fully trained. He listens to being told no, doesn’t climb counters/tables even when I’m not present, comes when he is called, he knows sit, stay, paw, lay down, roll over and I’m working on training him to play dead. I also have him leash trained. Probably the smartest cat I’ve ever been around
That's great, but I want to teach a cat NOT to do something (jump on the counters, knock stuff off, tear up the furniture, pee on stuff). Got anything for that?
