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Teach Your Cat Some Tricks : Jumping Pole

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Before teaching your cat to jump over a pole, you’ll need the right prop. In this case, the prop is a simple pole. You can be innovative when finding the perfect pole for your cat. A wooden dowel of 1 to 2 inches in diameter will work. Hollow cardboard tubes used for wrapping paper are also great for this trick. The first object I converted into a jumping pole was a cardboard tube that I wrapped with leopard-spotted paper for effect. It was perfect. Because you want to wow your audience, have a beginning to each trick. Starting the pole-jumping trick with your cat in a sitting position looks polished and formal. Start simple. First, ask your cat to sit, then place the pole on the floor for your cat to walk over. As she walks over it, capture the behavior by clicking and immediately treating. If your cat doesn’t walk over the pole, tap the target on the other side of the pole. By now your cat is well target-trained and will walk over the pole toward the target. Just as s...
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The World According to Cat - Part IV

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We can plainly see the cat’s origins as a predator of small rodents in its remarkable hearing abilities remarkable both in the range of sounds it can hear and in pinpointing the source of the sound. The cat is hearing range extends two octaves higher than ours, into the region that because we cannot hear it we refer to as ultrasound. This extended range enables cats to hear the ultrasonic pulses bats use to orient themselves while flying in the dark, and the high-pitched squeaks of mice and other small rodents. Cats can also tell different types of rodents apart by their squeaks. In addition to this sensitivity to ultrasound, cats can hear the same full range of frequencies we can, from the lowest bass notes to the highest treble. Almost no other mammal exhibits such a wide range, about eleven octaves in total. Because cats’ heads are smaller than ours are, their hearing range should be shifted to higher frequencies, so their ability to hear ultrasound is perhaps no...
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The World According to Cat - Part I

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We may easily overlook the simple fact that cats live in a world that is subjectively speaking quite distinct from ours. We share just enough overlap between our different perceptions of the world to be able to relate to one another, each species having evolved its senses to fit its lifestyle. It is unreasonable to consider cats’ abilities as inferior or superior to our own. Biologists abandoned the idea of one species being “superior” to another decade ago, though cat owners may suspect that their cats feel otherwise. We now consider each species as having evolved to fit a particular way of life; cats are good at being cats, because their ancestors evolved sense organs and brains to suit that role. Because the domestication of the cat is still incomplete, that role is still in a state of flux, for example, cats are still adapting to urban living while their sense organs have remained more or less unchanged. One major difference between cats and people...
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