I’m Samantha Martin I’m the chief human
and trainer for the amazing acro pets a
group of former orphan rescues and
strays that now perform in a cat circus
of sorts we travel the country and show
people that cats can indeed be true cats
have a different level of motivation
dogs will you know work for love and a
tennis ball and they just want to please
you
cats definitely want to know that
there’s something in it for them cats
are very comfortable up here they’re
very used to it it’s very spontaneous
show there’s a lot of ad-lib because I
just have to kind of have to follow
along with what the cat’s aside to do so
they Stephan Utley are still independent
they have you know they’ll do that
they’ll do the trick they know the trick
and but they’ll do it after they stretch
after they groom
it’s usually three humans and then 13
cats cats actually have the best
accommodations they have the back third
of the bus and it’s like decked out with
perches and cat trees and heads and you
know toys and you know everything a cat
could want now I would definitely a cat
person I mean I’ve worked with all kinds
of animals but I think over the years I
definitely started to relate more and
more to cats I think they’re graceful
intelligent they definitely have
attitudes you know a huge part of
training is basically observation is it
a cat that likes to you know hang out
low and swat at things do they like to
jump up high are they active do they do
they roll around on their back a lot do
they bat things with their paws anything
that the cat does you can turn into a
potential trick
it is possible to train cash we do
somewhat capture the behaviors that
can’t solve
pawing at a mouse and instead we’ll
apply that to pawing at a piano and
basically train them to play the piano
because we’re taking them their natural
behavior that they would always do and
just doing it on command and doing it
with the utility that we want them to
use they’re more feral they are less
domesticated than some of our other
companion animals and that’s what makes
them a little bit trickier to train
because we haven’t asked them for
thousand units of years to actually
change their behavior that is more
conducive to our lifestyle yeah that’s
right Jackson but if an animal can D be
domesticated we can modify it pretty
much to anything we want
being that the genetics are already
there in the wild population so from the
wolves dogs can be sighthounds or they
can be smell hounds where if we wanted
to do with that with cats
we could probably get around to it as
well but it would take hundreds of years
to get get that accomplished
I’m not surprised by a cat circus I’m
more surprised by the patience of the
person that’s actually training the cat
because I think the cat can actually
outlast the trainer in many instances
yeah they do have a bad rap and they
there definitely have you know added to
cattitude so you can’t really rely on
them quite so much there’s really I
don’t know about if there really see
very many service cats out there but
yeah they’re just a different kind of
animal but they can definitely be
trained and they definitely should be
given the opportunity to show how
intelligent they are
you
and trainer for the amazing acro pets a
group of former orphan rescues and
strays that now perform in a cat circus
of sorts we travel the country and show
people that cats can indeed be true cats
have a different level of motivation
dogs will you know work for love and a
tennis ball and they just want to please
you
cats definitely want to know that
there’s something in it for them cats
are very comfortable up here they’re
very used to it it’s very spontaneous
show there’s a lot of ad-lib because I
just have to kind of have to follow
along with what the cat’s aside to do so
they Stephan Utley are still independent
they have you know they’ll do that
they’ll do the trick they know the trick
and but they’ll do it after they stretch
after they groom
it’s usually three humans and then 13
cats cats actually have the best
accommodations they have the back third
of the bus and it’s like decked out with
perches and cat trees and heads and you
know toys and you know everything a cat
could want now I would definitely a cat
person I mean I’ve worked with all kinds
of animals but I think over the years I
definitely started to relate more and
more to cats I think they’re graceful
intelligent they definitely have
attitudes you know a huge part of
training is basically observation is it
a cat that likes to you know hang out
low and swat at things do they like to
jump up high are they active do they do
they roll around on their back a lot do
they bat things with their paws anything
that the cat does you can turn into a
potential trick
it is possible to train cash we do
somewhat capture the behaviors that
can’t solve
pawing at a mouse and instead we’ll
apply that to pawing at a piano and
basically train them to play the piano
because we’re taking them their natural
behavior that they would always do and
just doing it on command and doing it
with the utility that we want them to
use they’re more feral they are less
domesticated than some of our other
companion animals and that’s what makes
them a little bit trickier to train
because we haven’t asked them for
thousand units of years to actually
change their behavior that is more
conducive to our lifestyle yeah that’s
right Jackson but if an animal can D be
domesticated we can modify it pretty
much to anything we want
being that the genetics are already
there in the wild population so from the
wolves dogs can be sighthounds or they
can be smell hounds where if we wanted
to do with that with cats
we could probably get around to it as
well but it would take hundreds of years
to get get that accomplished
I’m not surprised by a cat circus I’m
more surprised by the patience of the
person that’s actually training the cat
because I think the cat can actually
outlast the trainer in many instances
yeah they do have a bad rap and they
there definitely have you know added to
cattitude so you can’t really rely on
them quite so much there’s really I
don’t know about if there really see
very many service cats out there but
yeah they’re just a different kind of
animal but they can definitely be
trained and they definitely should be
given the opportunity to show how
intelligent they are
you
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