Pets Thread

[Clueless Morgan]

You Be is cute! What a name, too.

He came with the name.  A coworker of mine can't ever remember it when I bring him in but knows it has something to do with a command so she always asks things like "His name is Sit, right?  Or Come?" :p

He also goes by Scooby, Scooba, Scoober, Youber, You-be-doo and Scooby-doo.  My family can't have a pet unless the name can be mangled into at least 4 nicknames.

I'm not much of a cat person, but your kittehs could make me a convert!

They're precious.

They looooove going outside (the leash training actually makes it easier to catch them when they escape), they target, they stand and they give me high fives.  We've been working on sit but not with the kind of gusto you need to actually train them, it's been more of a "Hey, you sat and waited for your treat instead of biting my fingers off trying to get it from me!  You get a reward!"

Cats are more willful than dogs but that doesn't mean they're untrainable.  You can teach them to do most everything a dog will do, it's just about socialization and building the trust.

Riley is actually in the midst of developing a superstition, I think.  Whenever I get the food out to feed them he waits by the food tray, then takes off counter-clockwise through the living room, in through the other entrance to the kitchen and back to his food tray.  By the time he does that his food is ready and he gets to eat. :p