Thank you for your kind comment on my article. You guessed right – I never loved a cat as much as I loved my little Kiwi! Well, I think I adore each of them just as much, but in a different way. Kiwi was the most affectionate cat we ever owned, so I gave that back to him.

I’m sure that you and your cats will love clicker-training. The only thing I wanted to say is that in the article above, I missed a few steps between the cat touching the stick with his nose & touching your hand as you move it on the floor. Though this worked fine with the very eager two first cats I trained (Kiwi and Pollux), it did not work with Kashmir; some cats are just too lazy to touch a moving wrist! I recommend that you do try the method suggested in my article, but if ever you have a lazy cat (no offense to the kitty!!), you can ask for advice on this wonderful clicker-training Yahoo! group that I discovered a few months ago: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Cat-Clicker The members are all very helpful and in the “Files” section, you will find many more fun tricks to teach your cats!

Anyway, I hope that this helps. To answer your two last questions: Kiwi was probably a Maine Coon mutt – we have no idea of his origins since he was rescued from a grocery store parking lot. And yes, we did get two lovely kittens a few days after Kiwi’s passing. I would have waited longer, but my mother and sister insisted on getting those kittens, and they are so adorable that I agree: it was the best decision! I am currently clicker-training them as well – Pollux gives high-fives and Kashmir gives me the sweetest little nose kisses on command. I will write an article on how to teach the latter trick, so keep checking my blog.

Thanks again for your kind comment! I hope that you have a wonderful week-end.

Cheers,

Maia
http://www.pawradise.net
http://furkids.wordpress.com

Thank you for your story, was Kiwi a Norwegian Forest cat? He looks very like one. Have you got yourself another cat, if not you should.

DebXX