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Have you heard of clicker training for cats? Teaching a cat to perform small behaviours followed by an immediate reward (usually a treat)
can boost the animal's self-efficacy:
"I made that! I earned myself that treat through my own actions!"

(I had good success with two previous female rescue cats who lacked self-confidence.)

After only two weeks of training, the effects were measurable-- Clicker training was found to increase cats’ exploratory behaviour, and therefore can help shy cats in group settings, among other positive effects.

A good scientific article here:

"Clicker training increases exploratory behaviour (...) in shelter cats"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168159118303320

and:
"Assessment of Clicker Training for Shelter Cats" (with exercises)
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5664032/

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my friends have made pings that make me do certain actions in vc (howling/meowing), i think this is some form of clicker training…

Since I do clicker training with Shinjuku every evening she now expects it to happen and has even started to wait for me on the box where we start if I don’t call her.

I wrote about cat training in my post, “Herding cats: Clicker training with my cat”

https://rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/2025-06-29-herding-cats/

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#HeroRATs treinados para detetar vários tipos de minas enterradas a diferentes profundidades #APOPO #ClickerTraining #ScentDetection #PositiveReinforcement

Os nossos #HeroRATs atingem uma fase avançada da sua formação no nosso campo de minas de treino de 24 hectares. Pela primeira vez, estão a ser expostos a minas terrestres reais e desactivadas. Este passo fundamental aperfeiçoa a sua capacidade de detetar com precisão diferentes tipos de minas enterradas a diferentes…

https://funchalnoticias.net/2025/03/26/herorats-treinados-para-detetar-varios-tipos-de-minas-enterradas-a-diferentes-profundidades-apopo-clickertraining-scentdetection-positivereinforcement/

Hello, #FediVerse! I am new here and I am looking for my people so that I can follow them and maybe even have conversations. Are you my people?

I’m migrating from Instagram, where I did more lurking than posting. It’s taking me some time to find my way around over here.

I’m particularly interested in finding #Horse people, and people who are into #ClickerTraining, #PositiveReinforcement, and #AnimalBehavior. I worked in #AnimalRescue for five years, but man is that a hard, draining career. I am currently recovering from pretty severe burnout. But I still love my local #AnimalShelter.

All of my horses are #Adopted because hey, I was in a position to provide them a home when they needed it. No shame if that’s not how you got your horse(s) - I just find that if I think too hard about looking for another herd member, the universe provides. So I try not to think that too hard, because the ones I have now are plenty! :P

My #horses are varied in size from a tall #Percheron to a chonky little #Haflinger, and all in their mid-twenties. They live with me at a rural #HousingCooperative and kindly allow themselves to be petted and played with by local community members in an outreach program that I started this winter. It’s still a pretty small endeavor. We’ll see where it goes. I’ll probably post about that sometimes.

I hope this reaches you, #HorseLovers and #ClickerTrainers! Also, anyone else who wants to say hi! There is a long list of other topics I may post about in my bio, so I won’t list everything in this already rather long post. Thanks for reading if you made it this far.

Had a great idea for a scene with my boyfriend. Ix is always dominant, but what if we included a little clicker training for Argent? He is being such a good boy.

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