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Getting out of bed

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Sometimes getting out of bed in the morning is just too hard!  Noomi sleeps in the bed, at night ( yeah, I know the don't let your cats in the bed, blah blah blah),  despite having quite a number of cat beds to sleep in, and sometimes stays put when I get up.  On this morning, I physically evicted her, and got quite a bit of loud complaining about the unfairness of this.  A few minutes later I came back down to check she had actually moved, and found the drama queen making her point.     Life is hard when you're a cat.

Training your cat

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There's so much nonsense out there about any animal training, that it is no wonder that people cannot fathom how to train a cat.  First, cats are generally solitary animals, so even if all the hierarchy training BS had any validity, it wouldn't work on cats. But also we humans are often obsessed with punishment (which is also part of the hierarchy alfa animal BS - the 'alpha' myths).  We, lazily, wait till things go 'bad', and then focus on how to stop (correct) something we don't like.  Not really training at all if you think about it, and incredibly stupid on our behalf - as if the animal is some sort of mind reader that 'knows' what we want. How often do we hear someone say 'he knows what he did wrong'.  Hint, nope he doesn't, or he wouldn't do it.  Bigger hint, how on earth could an animal 'know' if you didn't teach it what you do want.  That 'knowing'  look or body language is in response to your voice or b