tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36929138.post1605026670621246741..comments2022-11-27T00:31:34.653-08:00Comments on not Jennifer Aniston: The Cat WhispererLeilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10177207713697410544noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36929138.post-74709374456237516082007-01-25T22:32:00.000-08:002007-01-25T22:32:00.000-08:00OK, I think someone bought How I Met Your Mother. ...OK, I think someone bought How I Met Your Mother. I realize on rereading that I sounded inconsistent. I will check with the assistant, who Knows All.gbchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12317163541343174149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36929138.post-30098642584161431802007-01-25T22:25:00.000-08:002007-01-25T22:25:00.000-08:00I can probably get them at 20% off, but I think we...I can probably get them at 20% off, but I think we only get free movies, and even those are kind of random apparently. I am told a couple times a year, and in true corporate silliness, the free ones go to VPs and above only -- the people who can most easily afford to buy them. Sigh. OTOH, that means I get free ones!!!! My boss apparently brings hers in (free ones and I think just ones she has) and leaves them in a stack on her assistant's desk for anyone to borrow. So now I have seen the entire first season of How I Met Your Mother. I kinda like it.gbchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12317163541343174149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36929138.post-21668378542242475142007-01-24T19:54:00.000-08:002007-01-24T19:54:00.000-08:00Someone once told me that a training technique to ...Someone once told me that a training technique to use in this circumstance is to put mousetraps on the counter with enough newspaper on top of them that they'll snap but not catch anything. A different form of negative reinforcement. Our cat never got on the counters (as near as I could tell), so we never tried it. He did like to scratch a chair, and our training succeeded in getting our German Shepherd to run at him and chase him away, which in turn taught him to scratch quickly and then bolt before she got there. After a little while we didn't need to play a role.<br /><br />T.S.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36929138.post-63320737150697420882007-01-24T13:26:00.000-08:002007-01-24T13:26:00.000-08:00Thanks for the tip, tl. Biggs was trained with th...Thanks for the tip, tl. Biggs was trained with the squirt bottle technique some before I was part of his life. He's a really good cat, and I understand that they have things going on instinctually that probably aren't worth the headache to try to train away. I was sort of joking about applying dog techniques to cats, though I was surprised that some of the stuff seemed to work a bit with him. <br /><br />fringey, does that mean you get the Season 1 (and 2?) DVD's of Seconds From Disaster for free? Because, as you know, that is a really freaking cool show.Leilahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10177207713697410544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36929138.post-82562439612680583302007-01-24T06:54:00.000-08:002007-01-24T06:54:00.000-08:00Cats aren't really pack animals like dogs; there's...Cats aren't really pack animals like dogs; there's a different evolutionary mindset going on. If your cat is anything like mine, he is hunting for food and goes to high places like countertops and tables to get advantages for both spotting prey and defense. We found that the best tool for training a cat is a water gun. The water doesn't hurt the cat at all but he sure won't like getting squirted, and he'll learn to associate the squirt with bad behavior pretty quick.Burt Likkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16060980744675990412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36929138.post-84458309221502081862007-01-23T21:01:00.000-08:002007-01-23T21:01:00.000-08:00National Geographic Channel -- owned by Fox!!!National Geographic Channel -- owned by Fox!!!gbchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12317163541343174149noreply@blogger.com