We had a cat several years ago that almost learned the hard way not to put too much effort into trying to train the humans.
We noticed as the cat got older, when he woke up, he was taking longer and longer to get moving. We started fussing, "oh, poor kitty!" and giving him more attention.
Well, the cat figured out the 'game' way faster than we did. Pretty soon, he is dragging himself around the house, apparently paralyzed in his lower extremities.
Sadly, and with much drama, we had a family meeting, and I was nominated to take the kitty to the vet.
I get the carrier on the exam table, open the door, and the cat takes off like a shot, and escapes the exam room and runs the length of the hallway in about 1 second.
The vet looks at me and says "I don't think he is paralyzed".
Yep, we had trained the cat to be a paraplegic.
He almost got the needle for that trick.
so, I know how sneaky animals can be if they think they have you figured out.
We noticed as the cat got older, when he woke up, he was taking longer and longer to get moving. We started fussing, "oh, poor kitty!" and giving him more attention.
Well, the cat figured out the 'game' way faster than we did. Pretty soon, he is dragging himself around the house, apparently paralyzed in his lower extremities.
Sadly, and with much drama, we had a family meeting, and I was nominated to take the kitty to the vet.
I get the carrier on the exam table, open the door, and the cat takes off like a shot, and escapes the exam room and runs the length of the hallway in about 1 second.
The vet looks at me and says "I don't think he is paralyzed".
Yep, we had trained the cat to be a paraplegic.
He almost got the needle for that trick.
so, I know how sneaky animals can be if they think they have you figured out.
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