More Tricks!

Happy Birthday to my pals Zack and Zoey!!! It's pawsome watching those little guys grow up and now they are 2! Hope you have a great day little dudes! I love that Zack and Zoey have also got involved with clicker training and are having a blast with it! Hey Catsters, learning how to do tricks is a great way to bond with your people and an excellent way to get lots of treats, so I hope more cats get involved and learn to do tricks too. Then we can show all them smug dogs just how clever we really are!
This week I am learning how to stay, and the spin in a circle trick.
I have also started to ring the bell that the dogs ring when they want to go outside. This is a trick I taught myself because I am just clever like that. It's a really cool trick too because each time I have rang the bell, I got to go outside in my enclosure- but I was only allowed out for a short time because it is too chilly to stay out for long. I am well on my way to being an eXtreme trick cat!
Such fun! Meeoow!

Black And White Cat, Black And White Cake!

Learning tricks is a piece of cake, y'all! Don't hate because I am doing like what the dogs do. It's way worth it because the pay is excellent. Every time I do the trick correctly, I hear a click and then I get a treat. Simples, innit. This week I have been learning how to "Stay" and the jumping through the hoop trick. I still walk through the hoop at my own cat pace, but I do it every time that I am asked. I've worked hard this week at learning tricks so I shall enjoy my weekend curled up with a Ziploc baggie full of my homegrown catnip. Yeeaahh.

Clicker Training with Tobey

So riddle me this:
Q: What’s black and white and blue all over?
A: A sad Tobey.
I’m sad because Afro Ken and Chloe are getting their Trick Dog Titles. It’s not easy being in a house with two clever dogs so I thought, “If you can’t beat them, join them.” So I have started to do clicker training to learn a bunch of dog tricks too. The clicker training is going really well but I still have some more tricks to learn before I can qualify for my trick dog title. I really wish I was getting my certification too. :-(
The good news is I am a fast learner and have already mastered a bunch of dog tricks in such a short amount of time. So I hope it won’t be long before I can have a qualification too. I am working with a copy of Kyra Sundance’s 101 Dog Tricks book and learning the tricks for the NTD (Novice Trick Dog) certification. I need to learn 15 tricks.
This is what I know so far:
Come
Sit
Shake a paw
The muffin tin game (my fave game!)
Chase a lunge whip, laser light, soap bubble, RC car (easy 'trick' for a cat to do)
Which hand holds the treat
Hoop jump (well, I sort of step through the hoop niiice and sloooowly)
Jump over a bar
Not bad, eh? Listing all the tricks I know has made me feel so much better! I will be a certified trick cat in no time at this rate! I will definitely have to put together a video of my tricks to show those dogs how clever I am! Meeeooow!

Diary Pick!

I'm one of today's diary picks! How pawsome is that!
I have been working very hard at learning tricks and now I know how to sit and shake a paw! I'm a bit stubborn and will not just do these tricks willy nilly. I only do them when we are doing clicker training and I get a treat for it. The dogs will sit and shake a paw whenever they are asked, but I need to get paid if I am to perform for people, thankyouverymuch.
Just 13 more tricks to learn and I can be a certified trick dog -I mean trick cat. And I will be an EXTREME trick cat too. Yeah.

Tobey The Trick Dog?

Sooo Afro Ken and Chloe are well on their way to being NTDs (Novice Trick Dog Certification). I was watching them show off- I mean doing tricks earlier and I was mega jel so I have started to learn tricks too. I started my clicker training today and quickly learned the sit command. Only 14 more tricks to learn and I can be a trick dog, I mean cat too. My inspiration is this pawsome kitty here.

Chilly Minnesota

I see that my buddy Zack is COTW! How pawsome is that! Enjoy your special week, dude! I have never been COTW or even COTD but my dog brother Afro Ken has enjoyed the honour on Dogster and he tells me it is a lot of fun.

It is getting colder here in MN so I haven't been outside as much lately. I have harvested the catnip that grows outside so I can enjoy it inside my home. It's so potent, I love it!

I went with Chloe to get micro-chipped last week. Afro Ken already has his. I was so very good and only acted just a little bit grumpy.

My Catster Plus account ended today. I will miss having a bunch of photos to share, but other than that I don't see the point in it. Catster and Dogster seems to be all about FaceBook these days anyway.

I'm a little food monster who likes to steal the dog's food. They gang up on me and growl at me, and my mum calls me Swiper like off of Dora the Explorer . She says, "Swiper, no swiping!" Oh Mannnn!

Bigger On The Inside

I NEED *THIS*!. Brilliant!

My Birthday!

It was my actual birthday yesterday. Well it's the day my people have picked as my birthday because they don't know the real date. Thank you to my pals who sent me birthday wishes. I had a nice day. Although it was strange to wake up to the sound of the snow ploughs. I thought spring was on its way? I looked out the window and everywhere was covered in white again. Wassupwitdat? I wanted to hang out in my outdoor enclosure on my birthday. I hung out in it earlier in the week and it was pawsome. The snow had melted and the ground was dry and it was a lovely warm, sunny day but now it is all covered in snow again. It's not fair because I have a bunch of catnip that my people are going to plant in my enclosure so I can roll around in it like I did last year. That was amazing. So I didn't get to go out yesterday and spend my day rolling in catnip like I had planned. I stayed inside and played with Afro Ken and Chloe instead. I had a blast with them. We are mental and we pawty hard. Today my people are going to Petco, (where the pets go,) and they pawromised to get me birthday treats to make up for not getting me owt on my actual birthday. Yes I didn't get anything for my birthday. Not a sausage. Poor little me, eh? I hope they make it up to me today!

I have a sister

What's new, pussycats? I've still got my swag on. Life is good and I am happy and healthy, but THIS happened. Her name is Chloe and I really like her. She likes to play :-)

Afro Ken Is A Finalist In The World's Coolest Contest!

Afro Ken Is A Finalist In The World's Coolest Contest! Awww, I'm so happy for my dog-brother! He enters every year, as do I, and we never expect to get very far because we never bother asking for votes. So to be one of the final 75 dogs was a pawsome surprise for him! Getting so far has motivated him to try and get votes to be the World's Coolest Dog. I already know he's the worlds coolest dog, but he wants to try and make it official. The prizes are all kinds of rad too. Especially that grand prize of a flip camera. How sweet it would be to win that, especially now that the parentals are without a camera because they went and lost it. How on earth is Afro Ken, the Worlds Biggest Poser going to live without making movies and having his photo taken? So I will do my bit here and ask my cat pals who read my diary to please vote for Afro Ken. He might be a D-O-G, but he's my best friend. Thank you.
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