Training Your Cat
by Denise Flaim – Aug. 14, 2008 03:18 PM
Newsday
For millennia, cats have cultivated a reputation for self-absorption, superciliousness and outright disregard for anyone’s opinion other than their own.
But that doesn’t mean that cats are too independent to heed a human’s wishes, says Dee Mason of Garden City , N.Y.-based AristoCat Training (aristocattraining.com), whose company name obviously suggests that there is some bid-ability in that bewhiskered head, just waiting to be tapped.
1. COMMUNICATION IS KEY
Mason stresses the importance of simple, short sentences. Many cats, she adds, don’t know their names because their owners do not use them frequently enough.
