Cat trainning question - how do you get a kitty to jump into your arms?

[DanCa]

I seen it on tv and I was wondering if Tsonga, whose busy terrorizing my lotr minatures right now, if i can teach her to jump into my arms. Or does the fact that she's a tortie make this trick impossible.

[usedtobesick]

1. smear cat food on your chest?

I can't get cats to even eat when I give them food. Sorry I have no real clue for you...

[DanCa]

2. mandatory cat picture of tsonga

[TimeChaser]

3. Cat... training...?

"Cat" and "training" are usually not put together in the same sentence. But I imagine it would involve a lot of food and bribes.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. My cat just does it; I never taught it to him.

This guy, Milo, will fling himself at my torso whenever he wants attention, which is often. He obviously trusts me to catch him and carry him around. It's funny, but startling.

[SoCalDem]

16. Yep.. I think some are just going to do it..Marvin launches himself

and makes a perfect landing on my shoulder..(most of the time)..

The others are not interested in jumping

Marvin started jumping on me (velcro-style..claws out) when he was about 4 weeks old.. Thank goodness he turned out runty:)

[WilliamPitt]

5. Hang a mouse from your nose

and have a cosmetic surgeon on speed-dial.

[DanCa]

6. cool a mouse from a nose :D How would it look with my three day old

don johnson beard.

[obxhead]

7. Soak your shirt in tuna fish.

:silly:

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Put a fish in your bra

[DanCa]

9. sorry i aint a female . :)

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. Well, get a man bra!

[DanCa]

13. Lol the Bro or the Manzare? I like the bro :D (Sienfield moment.)

[WCGreen]

10. If they don;t do it when they are young...

They will not learn...

[Ellen Forradalom]

12. Sit down and read a newspaper

He'll jump right on the paragraph you were trying to read.

[Jamastiene]

15. Guaranteed. Proven. Fact.

I wonder why this isn't mentioned more often. All cat servants know they pretty much always do this, yet rarely, if ever, do cat expert advice givers mention it. :shrug:

[tavalon]

14. I have a better question

How do you get him to stop after he's started doing it? I have to be so alert when I walk into the Seattle house because Corbin Dallas launches himself as soon as I walk in and if I don't get my arms out in time, he uses his claws to make sure he doesn't fall. Ouch.

[Robeson]

17. Here's a heads up. You don't own your cat, she owns you......

...and you will learn to do, what she wants you to do....;-)