I LOVE cats!!!!!!!! (BUT......... i am so allergic to them, that i cannot possibly share a domain with them.... so i am stuck with the woofly animals <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />)
There are only 2 cats i can keep..... a sphynx and a peter bald..... and both of those species are so [sensored] expensive in my country, that i cannot afford one of them... The average price of a registered sphynx is in the region of about R 12 000.00 (South African Rand) thats about $ 2000.00)
And i am very sorry to admit, but thats more than what i am willing to spend on a cat!!!!!!
But i am getting rewarded for my investment into Dutchess <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> she is getting soooooo cute... (still madly naughty though)
I have mastered the "sit" command....
I am 80% of mastering the "take nicely" command
I am 50% on mastering the "wait your turn" idea (i have 3 dogs, the 2 older ones KNOW that you only take offered food when mommy says your name - in otherwords announcing its your turn... this stops any cross grabbing, and make giving treats a bigger pleasure than having to fight them to get it to the right mouth.) Dutchess will just jump up impatiently, but at the sit command, she will sit down and wait .2 seconds longer <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />
which brings me to the next lesson
I am -923874982374892359893492784% on teaching her patience.
She has learned another trick all on her own too...
THere are a small set of steps between the shop and the garden (back). she can get up those fairly fine (well if take 1 doesnt work, take 2 or 3 will), but she cant get DOWN them to come back....
So now she sits at the top of the stairs. give one single high pitched "WAFF" to call me to come pick her up and put her down at the bottom...
