Comments on: Toys and Your Ragdoll Cat http://www.ragdollcats.info/toys-and-your-ragdoll-cat/ Breed Specific Care & Training Tips For Your Ragdoll Cat Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:28:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gale http://www.ragdollcats.info/toys-and-your-ragdoll-cat/comment-page-1/#comment-1128 Gale Sat, 19 Mar 2011 01:30:22 +0000 http://www.ragdollcats.dreamhosters.com/toys-and-your-ragdoll-cat/#comment-1128 My Ragdoll is surrounded by 4 dogs and she thinks she is one of them. When they get a treat, she wants a treat. When I say "who wants to go outside?", she is usually first in line. I put a gate on my porch, and she stays on the deck. She likes the summer and the bugs. She got out a few days ago when I didn't notice, and she got down onto the lawn... and there was still snow. I told her to get back and she looked at me, came a little closer, looked around, saw there were still dogs out, and stayed where she was. I kept an eye on her, and when the dogs wanted in, she sauntered back to the porch, but it was cold so I closed the door. When she had climbed the stairs and come to the door, she started banging in it, like let me in now! I let her in the yard during the summer, on a harness and leash, but she doesn't really like grass. In case anyone is worried... my yard is fenced with a solid wood fence all around my half acre, and it's secure. As for playing, her favourite toy is a piece of bra strap I cut off and she found in my sewing room. She has been playing with that piece of fabric for a year and she now shares it with a puppy. And I know she thinks she is a dog because when I do my daily obedience practice with the dogs, heeling and doing recalls, when I am done the dogs, Diva is sitting at the end of the hall, waiting for her recall exercise. During the winter, I have a tunnel in the house, and she loves it. If I tell her to "tunnel", she runs through it, and then back to me and sits right in front of me. Every night, we do her obedience... she will sit, sit up, give one paw then the other, gimme 5, down, stay on command, and her stay will last over 5 minutes with a treat within easy reach and will only take it when I say "take it" or "ok" or the go of "on your mark, get set, go", purring the whole time. My Ragdoll is surrounded by 4 dogs and she thinks she is one of them. When they get a treat, she wants a treat. When I say “who wants to go outside?”, she is usually first in line. I put a gate on my porch, and she stays on the deck. She likes the summer and the bugs.

She got out a few days ago when I didn’t notice, and she got down onto the lawn… and there was still snow. I told her to get back and she looked at me, came a little closer, looked around, saw there were still dogs out, and stayed where she was.

I kept an eye on her, and when the dogs wanted in, she sauntered back to the porch, but it was cold so I closed the door. When she had climbed the stairs and come to the door, she started banging in it, like let me in now! I let her in the yard during the summer, on a harness and leash, but she doesn’t really like grass.

In case anyone is worried… my yard is fenced with a solid wood fence all around my half acre, and it’s secure.

As for playing, her favourite toy is a piece of bra strap I cut off and she found in my sewing room. She has been playing with that piece of fabric for a year and she now shares it with a puppy.

And I know she thinks she is a dog because when I do my daily obedience practice with the dogs, heeling and doing recalls, when I am done the dogs, Diva is sitting at the end of the hall, waiting for her recall exercise.

During the winter, I have a tunnel in the house, and she loves it. If I tell her to “tunnel”, she runs through it, and then back to me and sits right in front of me.

Every night, we do her obedience… she will sit, sit up, give one paw then the other, gimme 5, down, stay on command, and her stay will last over 5 minutes with a treat within easy reach and will only take it when I say “take it” or “ok” or the go of “on your mark, get set, go”, purring the whole time.

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