I used to petsit for a friend whose mother thought I was cruel for only giving their 16lb obese (like horribly obese, can't groom herself) cat 1 treat a day split into quarters, and making her run up the hall or down the stairs for each piece. They said they give her a minimum of 5 Temptations a day, just for lying there and being cute.
The cats' only guarantee of getting commercial treats like Temptations or Whiskas is if they're at the vet. Mo loves it because he never gets as many treats at home, ever, and Kismet is too terrified to eat them. At home, I give visitors treats to entice the cats. They usually get tossed so the cats have to chase them down to get them. Mo is used to getting treats for little tricks like jumping up a wall or standing on his hind legs and holding your hand with his front paws (although he tends to think he's being teased because he defaults to standing and whapping/grabbing at hands really quickly so it looks like it's going to be an attack so I don't have the guts to do this).
Their kibble is their daily treat though, and that can be tossed, put in a treat ball, and hidden all over the apartment on door hinges, all over the towers, on chairs, sofas, window sills, in enclosed tracks, in boxes, etc. I save freeze dried treats like Pure Bites as toppers.
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How often do your cats get treats? What kind of treats? How do you offer them? (incentive for trick training, conditioning, hiding them, throwing them, just feeding them right to the cat, etc.)
The cats' only guarantee of getting commercial treats like Temptations or Whiskas is if they're at the vet. Mo loves it because he never gets as many treats at home, ever, and Kismet is too terrified to eat them. At home, I give visitors treats to entice the cats. They usually get tossed so the cats have to chase them down to get them. Mo is used to getting treats for little tricks like jumping up a wall or standing on his hind legs and holding your hand with his front paws (although he tends to think he's being teased because he defaults to standing and whapping/grabbing at hands really quickly so it looks like it's going to be an attack so I don't have the guts to do this).
Their kibble is their daily treat though, and that can be tossed, put in a treat ball, and hidden all over the apartment on door hinges, all over the towers, on chairs, sofas, window sills, in enclosed tracks, in boxes, etc. I save freeze dried treats like Pure Bites as toppers.
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