@Danex I know this is a super late reply, but I “trained” my cat to rub her body on my legs whenever I give her food and now when she does that even if I’m not holding food (she’s just giving me love), I start to think I should give her food. I catch myself and I knowingly recognize that I have accidentally Pavloved myself. I still give her the food though because she’s sweet and she deserves it 💕
Human: watches tv Cat: eyo is that joe Dog: who's joe? Bird: JOE MAMA- Cat: no... He was my best friend Dog: dude... Bird: dude... Human: how did a bird get here?
Narrator: And Leo, based on his personality, was a natural at being the undead church. Me: Translation, Leo is mean as f**k. (Love cats btw, they're the best.)
I remember seeing something similar in the extras of the first Smurfs film, years ago. They were filming the cat while he was on a bench, and suddenly the cat said "Yeah, no" and jumped off and walked away 😌 They also explained how different it is to train cats from dogs
i love how they rescue the animals. Theres another video on dog training for movies and they said that the dogs were unwanted. its a lot more ethical to have a rescue dog or cat, then just buying one from the pet store. so props to them
I just watched the video on food in films and was pretty dismayed at how much food waste there was in the name of "realism" - so as a cat lover even to begin with, I was doubly delighted to watch this video soon after, and to hear about things like gently easing the cats into behaviors and environments so they were comfortable and happy, and even that they rescue cats to use in movies! This whole video was heartwarming and I love it!
The cats in "Stuart Little" were, according to the director's commentary... not actually hit in the face with branches. It was compressed air, and a lot of the CGI was actually used for removing human trainers (up to eight were usually hidden around the set) and bluescreening cats who were really in much more convenient places. Another useful tool: they had a laser pointer that flickered at the same rate, offset, from the camera shutter, so it was always off when the film camera took a picture and didn't show up on film. Essential for getting a cat to look in the place where a CGI mouse would be. Minkoff says that in the very last shot of the film, they left the laser pointer on the windowsill, and you can see Snowball (there were five persians all trained in specific tasks, out of 23 cats in total used for maybe what, eight cats on film?) look at it even after Stuart's been carried away. Having doubles is invaluable for other purposes. Sometimes you strike absolute gold - Disney's "The Cat From Outer Space," the cat was played by Rumpler and Amber, identical brother and sister Abyssinians from the same litter. Not only is the breed famous for fierce intelligence (much easier to train than a Persian), they were actually able to train both cats for all the tasks necessary, and they would swap out one cat for the other throughout the day whenever the one performing got tired, or the one sitting got bored. Tag team.
Cats have incredible minds that work extremely similar to ours. I guess the reason theyre harder to train is because their thinking is so complex and not as simple as dogs or birds. 🤷🏻♂️
This is pretty impressive. I've been trying to train my cat to sit and shake hands on command, but he completely ignores me and keeps surfing facebook photos of naked dogs all day. (I think he may have a problem)
It’s nice to see that the animals are treated well. I remember how in old movies they’d just abuse the animals to get them to do crazy stunts. Now we’ve got these people with hearts of gold loving their profession!
Its great to see a video about animal training! This way of training (using only positive reinforcement) is the way to go. In the past a lot of people tried to train animals using punishment or dominiation - but this failed miserably when zoo trainers tried this on water mammals like dolphins or whales - they just couldn't reach them for any sort of punishment as they just swam away. So they tried a different approach and it worked much better. There now even is scientific research backing this all up: animals trained with positive reinforcement are much more reliable than animals trained via punishment/domination, as they learn that this behaviour gains them something and they tend to offer the behaviour with their own free will, instead of trying to avoid punishment (this is the only thing they learn when being trained by punishment in fact).
It is awesome to think that cats specifically and humans have been living together for roughly 12,000 years. In that time we have formed a great inter-species bond, and I love how we even train them and treat them and like animal actor stars to share movies with humans. Just a moment to stop, think, and appreciate the beauty in life
There should've been video of her entire cat training process. I have no idea what "counter conditioning" is or what "catnip parties in the bathtub" would even begin to look like. I didn't know cats would like wet catnip. I'm even more amazed they found 3 other cats to rescue that looked like the original Church.
I trained my 2 cats to lose fear of water through positive reinforcement (food, cuddle, praise). I taught them to walk into water by themselves. And that from the beginning, so I never put them into the water or held them etc. So never used force. Both were terrified of water before the training & already 9 years old. But now they even swim in water calmly, do tricks, play fetch etc. You can see their training process & all my training steps, if you look into my tutorials.
Read don't shoot the dog by Karen Pryor. It is easy to understand and explores training theory in depth. You can apply it to any animal, people, or even to yourself. The cover of the book looks plain and boring and the title of dumb, but don't let that dissuade you.
This made me think of my cat that got run over this morning the last memory I have of her was her sitting under our pine tree with the sun shining on her. It reminded me of a scene out of a movie.
I trained my cat how to sit and beg when I was around 9. You hold a treat directly above a cats head, and their natural reaction is to sit and look up at it. You give them the treat for sitting. After they've learned that command, you hold the treat in your hand and my cat gently put her paw up to try and grab it herself. I gave her the treat. Now she knows 2 commands and it was easy enough for me as a kid to teach her myself. (I'm now an adult and my cat still knows those tricks)
@PUPSUKI "I couldn't help but fall deeper inlove when leo, the person I've had a crush for years, carried me after I had broken every single bone I owned"
I had this cat since I was 4, he died 25 years later and I knew cat will become smarter, more cunnings as they age, mine was a bossy type, he knew how to open food package, how to bait fish out of the aquarium, how to open the door, use toilet and flush, how to take revenge on my dad by leaving a dead rat on his pillow, how to comfort me when I was upset. He died when I was near 30 yo, and I cried like a baby for days. There will never be one like him, miss you bro :(.
Rachel the Seeker Lol well one of my cats hate water while the other gets into the sink and drinks it.. But they were both pretty much trained ig at 1 🤗
Lana Krajcer wow! My cat is just a tabby domestic shorthair, but because she was malnourished as a kitten before we rescued her, her growth was stunted. She’s about the size of a 6-7mo kitten still, at just under 2.5kg, and she’s a fully grown adult now. That’s her in my profile pic- at about 20mo. As you can see, she still has that kitten face, and always will, she’s just a tiny little thing. It’s crazy to think of a cat that’s five times her size!
Liz W the story is like 30 or 40 years old by now, I think the time for protecting spoilers is past. Plus, the spoiler is in the name. You think a story called Pet Semetary is about happy live kitties?
From this entire video, the part about bathing the cats really piqued my interest. It reminded me of a distant time, when I had a cat: When I had a cat I tried to give her a bath for the first time since I got her. I wore a thick winter jacket because I had no Idea how she going to react to the water and i knew that if i didn't protect myself, I'd probably end up with horrible scratches on my body. I placed her in the tub and turned on water. I'm not sure if I had used the shower head or not to do so but it didn't matter because the second her paws touched the water, she sprung up and leaped onto the back of my neck and clung on in fear. Thankfully the coat had fully protected me but I couldn't say the same for our, now wet bathroom floor. I slowly removed her from her place and set her down again (I'm pretty sure the water was still running). Just like before she panicked when the water touched her paws. I noticed she only reacted that way when the water tickles her bean toes so I retrieved a small stool we used to reach the higher shelves on cabinets and placed it in the middle of the bathtub. I set my kitten down on the stool and she let me give her a bath...at the expense of the floor and bathroom mats... I wonder if the cats used in production would've gotten used to taking baths if they placed them on stools instead of training them for over 2 months, like I did with my cat. Although my cat didn't act like a normal cat would since she was never taught "cat stuff" by her birth mother, I think she'd have a instinctive hatred towards water like other cats would, so my method might work. I'm not sure though, all cat are different just like humans. My cat just happened to spend 90% of her time with me and enjoyed human things like music and television.
She sadly ran away after experiencing the outside world a few times and went feral after meeting a cat whom I took care of for a short time when they were a kitten. They probably made the street life seem more appealing to my cat who had only left the house a few times in her life before
This is so true. I have 4 relativetly old rescue cats and just teaching them that the food and water was okay to consume, where to pee and to trust us was (among other things) a long and painful process. Lots of scratching and hissing and attacking our feet happened. When one of them got pregnant the kittens were so much easier to train compared to the older ones. Over time I guess that the older cats realized we were nice people after seeing how we treated their new family members (bottle feeding the weaker ones, playing with them, combing their furr, ect). All in all, it worked out well for all felines and humans involved. Sorry if my English is crap, I’m from Sweden.
I trained both of mine to sit, give me their paw and when I say "SHARK!" they jump up and grab the treat with their mouth like jaws. I also "trained" them not to scratch my furniture. I think literally any cat is trainable because one of the cats I trained is an idiot and a senior cat. I love her and she is so sweet but she is the dumbest cat I've ever owned.
I saw a show in Las Vegas where this guy did a show with his pets. He had to have at least a dozen cats if not more in addition to dogs, geese, and rats. I wonder how you train that many cats.
It helps to have a dog it makes it so it’s especially easy to train it compared to a normal cat. Plus if the cat is food motivated. The family cat is food motivated and looks up to my dog so the cat now knows sit and “up” which is a version of like stand but to give my dog and cat some leverage to stay up I give them my arm to lean on. The cat doesn’t even claw me when she does it. The cat my family has is what we call dog cat, she likes walks, does tricks, wants to be around people, and doesn’t like being alone.
It’s funny how the cats are treated better than the human actors. Edit: A lot of weirdos are replying to this comment projecting their own antisocial thoughts on to this. ODD flex. Animals as well as humans don’t deserve abuse in the entertainment industry. Abuse in Hollywood is real and disgusting. What I meant was I wish human actors were treated as good as these cats were. The End. Can’t be any more clear than that.
@M M you are right. Just like in the Vatican where the priests and the bishops have been raping people including child and no one can bring them to law.
@Elisa K. Why do you let God do everything for you and the other humans? We humans should act, not wait for God to do everything for us. That's what I think. Don't get mad at me
