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Beyond the Herding of Cats
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WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary….
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From my youth up I never liked the city.
I never forgot the mountains where I was born.
The world caught me and harnessed me
And drove me through dust, thirty years away from home.
Migratory birds return to the same tree.
Fish find their way back to the pools where they were hatched.
I have been over the whole country,
And I have come back at last to the garden of my childhood.
My farm is only ten acres.
The farm house has eight or nine rooms.
Elms and willows shade the back garden.
Peach trees stand by the front door.
The village is out of sight.
You can hear dogs bark in the alleys,
And cocks crow in the mulberry trees.
When you come through the gate into the court
You will find no dust or mess.
Peace and quiet live in every room.
I am content to stay here the rest of my life.
At last I have found myself.
— Tao Yuan Ming (Tao Qian) Chinese, 365-427
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I dunno… I think these guys have them beat…
https://youtu.be/m_MaJDK3VNE
gorgeous kee kee’s.
Somehow I can’t see Miss Olive performing stunts on a public stage– I’m thinking she has Gerard trained/herded rather than the other way around.
Well that is just about amazing! I guess lion tamers::cat trainers, or something?
As I am currently working with my two dawgs to improve their return to my whistle, the amount of detail those ladies trained into those cats caused me to marvel. Dawgs do have their own minds, yea, but they have a certain amount of buy-in because they like us.
But training cats? Whoa!
“…two dawgs to improve their return to my whistle…”
It all starts with a leash, and the proper use thereof.
Food is the primary inducement, I have Iam’s mini-chunks in my pocket at all time.
Lavish praise is the reward they seek because they live to please the master.
Voice tone is the key.
high = good
low = bad
Patience works.