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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forumscat using sign language to ask for food
http://www.break.com/web-user-yt/02-24-2012/cat-uses-sign-language-to-ask-for-food-2303525my cat just smacks it out of my hand
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)Butt side to me, of course.....
rocktivity
(44,588 posts)And a friend's cat would just ask -- he'd literally say, "Meow?"
rocktivity
mucifer
(23,634 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)davsand
(13,421 posts)I have always taught my kitties to pat me with a paw when they want to be petted. Makes sense to me that you could teach a cat to ask in specific ways for food. I think that as long as you are working to get them something they WANT they will be pretty receptive to the training.
Laura
Old Troop
(1,991 posts)libodem
(19,288 posts)Too cute. Ralphie uses her paw to poke me in the face while I sleep.
DFW
(54,519 posts)My sister has a pair of cats, but their hearing is OK, so they don't use sign language. They come
right out and say "look, you gonna feed me, or do I shred your bedsheets (New Jersey)?"
Due to their accent, it comes out "rrrrrooooowwwww!" but we have seen the consequences
often enough to know what they mean.
sakabatou
(42,204 posts)Last edited Sat Feb 25, 2012, 04:26 PM - Edit history (1)
Edit: for those confused or wanting making fun
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sakabatou
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ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)seem to be content letting her be the spokesperson, or cat, as it were.