Debris of Daily Life

Written in Jan 2023:

I was getting desperate at the time to figure out what the best way to siphon off Bees’ boredom would be. I settled on teaching her tricks and pretty much figured out how to train the rest of my cats after her— people who don’t think you can train cats simply haven’t tried, I think. These days I don’t teach as many tricks as I just reinforce behaviors that I prefer, like bedtime or sitting on command. It’s also a lot easier to get cats to stop being buttheads this way since when they’re younger they get pretty tired like this (and are incredibly eager to get that treat!).