Recent Content by haiku17

Very nice. :) So cute.

I was thinking I'd do short sessions and intersperse treats with petting as well. :) And yes, this is an experiment. I should remind myself that, plus the fact, that I started this as more of a fun productive thing than anything else.

That's exactly what Haiku does. After very few treats, she does the head butt and affection thing. This is also why I was thinking of keeping the sessions really short.

Thanks msbedelia & jcat. I've had to stop the clicker training for now because it's messing up her eating -- that is, when I put her on scheduled feeding (2x a day), she wasn't eating enough. I think I'll go back to getting her special treats and just keep the training sessions really, really...

Not really. When I introduced myself in another thread, I said I was doing this for productive fun. There's nothing wrong with Haiku that I want to correct other than that she occasionally scratches the wrong thing. 

Thanks for the suggestions. I'd like to get her to come, sit, stay, and maybe do a trick or two. I'd also like to redirect her scratching.  We don't have such a wide variety of brands of cat treats here so I get what's available. I can probably do chicken, meat, and cheese for her treats.  I...

Hi, I'm trying to clicker train my Persian, Haiku, but I'm having difficulty with the reward system and her eating.  For the past three years, I've fed her wet canned food in the morning and let her graze on kibble the rest of the day. I've been feeding her the same types of food with very...

Thanks, everyone, for the warm welcome. :)

Hi, I have a 3-year old female Persian named Haiku. She has golden eyes and her color is called "blue smoke", but it looks grey as dust to me. :) When she was a kitten, she reminded me of a puff of smoke. She's a good cat. She's affectionate, and at turns quiet and chatty. She gets into my...