How To Train Your Cat: Beginners Start Here

I've made it easy to start training your cat with this beginner series. In the first part of this cat training tutorial, your cat will learn to follow a finger target. In the second part, you will use the finger target to guide your cat over a leg jump. Consider this a warm-up series that you can start even before you get your clicker training tools. Watch the end where I have my first session with a neighbourhood cat named Tego. When I'm training my cat Jones, I substitute the clicker for a verbal market, 'YES'. When I'm out with Tego, I'm making a clicking sound with my mouth. Both are fine for this easy tutorial, but when we work on more precise tricks, like high five, you will need your clicker training tools.

Have fun training!

- Julie and Jones

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Enrich Your Cat's Life And Strengthen Your Bond With Training
➡️ The Cat School Toolkit includes all the tools you need to start training your cat:
• A quiet clicker ideal for cats
• A retractable target stick/clicker to make it easy to teach complex behaviors.
• A printed booklet to guide you on your training journey

What is Cat School Membership? It's a roadmap to training your cat.
Inside the membership:
• Get access to all Cat School courses from clicker training, harness training, nail trims, leash walking, addressing problem behaviours, and tons of skills and tricks.
• Join a growing community of cat trainers.
• Get support from the teacher to help your cat succeed.
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➡️ MEET THE TEACHER
I'm Julie Posluns, also known as Julie, the Cat Teacher. My goal is to help people enrich their cat's life with clicker training. I am an Associate Certified Applied Animal Behaviourist (ACAAB). I love to break complex behaviours into tiny achievable steps and show cat guardians how fun and rewarding it is to train their cats. My assistant in the videos is a black cat named Jones, who has a full scholarship to Cat School.

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[NamNguyen-vxuw]

i just tried this on my cats a few min ago. theyre not trained at all and it worked!!! thank you!

[fashionfitnessfinance]

Just tried this today and it worked so well. Adopted my adult cat a few months ago and she already knows the sit command, so I figure she’s trainable. She loved this, picked up on it super quickly, and purred the entire time!

[prateeksharma]

From her behavior, we thought our cat would be hard/impossible to train. But, this video worked like a charm, and now she reliably chases our finger.

[rimbod]

"MOM, THAT LADY CAME BACK AND SHE'S TRAINING OUR CAT AGAIN!!"
"Oh my god BRYAN CALL THE COPS!!!"

[zero]

Title is misleading, but the human is well trained, this cat has some good human training skills

[funnypetviewingtheworld]

i just wanted to thank you once again for these amazing videos. i've started training with my cat about a month and a half ago and she can follow finger, sit, fist bump and jump in an arm hoop in sequence for just one treat! every time i post a video of her on twitter it blows up! she is not a very cuddly cat so this is has been an enormous bonding experience for us that we hadnt even known was possible. thank you so much!

[bikbikkidbik]

I would like to train my cat to go and buy his own catfood put it in his own dish and when he’s done washes own dish and put it away

[cowextremeawesomenesss]

This is definitely the best channel for cat training out there. I already taught my cat to give me a high five with your help! Jones is really cute and I hope to see more videos

[sayuri]

One of my cats picked up really fast on how to sit wait and come before i found this channel. The other cat is a little slower to learn so finding this channel really helped! thanks!

[juliadandy]

The way you give the cat the treats is so smooth! 😊

[Drindastran]

Thanks for all your videos! Me and my cat appreciate them!

[daisycassandra]

Can’t believe how fast my cat learned this. He loved it! Can’t wait to spend more time with him and teach him new tricks

[godisdead]

This is so straightforward and simple yet helpful I love it

[chetremucha]

Wow this is so easy...I tried this to my kitten only for 5 minutes and he learn so fast😍😍Thank you very much...now my cat go to me so fast when I do this to him🤩😘

[vivianvallen]

And then we have my cat, who is always actively searching for treats, even when there are none 😂 And when I accidentally drop one single treat, he comes sprinting towards it like it's life depends on it ... Even when he is in a completely different room lol

[kmw]

Just did this separately with my 2 7month old kittens and they were great, first time training them .just did it for 2 mins each coz I know cats get more bored easily than dogs with training. They are both HIGHLY food motivated so it works well for them

[jonna]

Thank you for this tutorial.getting a new cat and a first cat owner as well.i think would help me

[bubblebee]

I tried this today for the first time with my kitten and it worked!! We’re going to keep working on it but this is really great!

[marksteve]

She's a wild little black kitten with a little snow flake on her belly🐈‍⬛ she's very active and I tried to teach her how to clam down at times, but this video will help, thank you! ☺️

[bigdawg]

I trained my girl to walk on leash jump on shoulder when instructed to get ready for car ride. Every place that had a drive thru she shook everyone's hand. She has alerted me to a seizure. She's better than any Fido I've met when it comes to protection. She recently had a litter of six. Noe time to baby train