Using clicker training and treats each step of the way (and a lot of patience), I eventually got him to
jump on the stool.
Now, not only does Bilbo
jump on the stool on command, but he also just jumps on the stool for fun.
Your cat's movements should be voluntary, even if they are accidental, he'll gradually associate the click with the movement you're training him for, whether it's sitting or
jumping on a stool.
Not exact matches
I
jumped up
on the bar and put my feet
on the
stool.
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Bilbo would
jump on chairs
on command, but he would never get near those
stools.
A healthy
stool looks like a tootsie roll; if it's small, hard and dry, or if the cat spends a lot of time in the box, strains excessively, or cries as he's defecating, it's time to
jump on the problem.
Some of the extended bits that Fadem pulled off in that time: sitting down
on a rubber
stool, kicking a hole through a stage that would eventually collapse in full, slamming a weird sort of metal gate / screen - door combination affixed to the building's wall,
jumping into the East River and then reappearing inside of a barrel of vaseline that was treated to looked like toxic sludge, hurling himself into a pile of cardboard boxes and then sounding the world's most pathetic airhorn, addressing the performance's one heckler with a drawn - out gesture involving his middle finger, drinking a number of glasses of water in rapid succession before moving to a sort of thick, clear liquid that he repeatedly spit up and attempted to drink again (I heard an audience member worry that this would trigger a series of chain - reaction vomiting in the audience.