Watch these three cuties out-do everyone!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noRyPlDo2WI

Being a card-carrying cat person myself the very idea of getting either of my kittehs to do this makes me laugh!

You may want to ask your owner–Cant you be a little more original?

Marc, she’s a gorgeous girl, well-trained, and well-loved. Thanks for sharing.

*Singsong* New catigory!!!!!!!!!

This was my doing and yes, of course she got to eat all them treats. Plus a few extras.

Someone asked what she was — my normal response is “black.” When we adopted her we were told “Shar Pei mix,” which our vet agrees with (have a look at the ear shape). Other than that, dunno. She looks labbish but has a much leaner build than labs typically do.

As far as this being mean, we always make her sit and wait for food, there’s no real difference here. She knows that any food i put on her ultimately ends up in her tummy, and she’s happy with the arrangement.

“Not like Pavlov didn’t feed the dog” – great line, Bertha. And good point, cosmique — I had an aggressive-breed mix doggie (dobie + aussie cattle) who was also very skittish and that’s a dangerous combination. One of the things I did to stop her from worrying so much about her “sister” the pointer stealing her food was to pretend to eat the food myself (a trainer tip) for a few minutes, to establish myself as pack leader and not her. That’s about the same as this — making a dog wait until you say “Eat.”

I am not a dog owner, but I have learned a lot about dogs here.

The line between “teasing” and “playing” is very ambiguous in humans, which I think is fuelling the discussion here.

I only think it’s cruel if the dog is NOT allowed to eat the treat. Being made to wait, or asked to do a trick, or whatever, is part of the animal’s operant conditioning mechanism.

It’s not like Pavlov didn’t feed the dog.

I think this puppeh knows he’s just going to get WAY MORE TREATZ in the end ZOMGS and it makes it all the more fun. Same amount of patient waiting, more reward.

And since you don’t agree both sides are going to be telling each other they are wrong for all these reasons…

at least people get to point out their reasons here and there is very little #$%^&* involved.