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Cats and Doors
Following an converstaion beginning on email re horrendously cold weather approaching and impossibility of closing doors if you live with cats, Sarah (the anon posting on the NG post)has decided to create an exciting and educational website for cats to teach them how to close doors, leading to warmer houses for us all and freeing us from participation in playing Other Side, tho I suspect that will take a lot of the fun out of it for the cats.
Knowing that many of you are Cat owners (or owned by cats), obviously this was the best place to ask for assistance, since you will all benefit from this exciting new educational tool for your furry little overlords.
Anyway, to further this great aim the following would be of great help!
(from sarah)
Yeah, on second thoughts, if we could do something like
1. Cat
2. Door
3. Cat by open door with big red X
4. Cat by open door with big finger pointing at cat
5. Cat by closed door with big green tick
That would make me very happy.....
We could do a bit of promotional gumph - welcome to shutthatdoormiaow.com, THE place for cat door shutting training. In just 5 simple steps, we will show you how to get rid of that
annoying door-opening habit!!
also
Yeah, and then need to find a hoster and somewhere to do the page, and someone who can do html to do the text - Any ideas for promotional text for our new venture?
ETA hehe, a tutorial session? http://eatin.fotopic.net/p10857750.html
ps those of you from Scene (alas, poor Scene) may remember Sarah as Thesme ;)
Knowing that many of you are Cat owners (or owned by cats), obviously this was the best place to ask for assistance, since you will all benefit from this exciting new educational tool for your furry little overlords.
Anyway, to further this great aim the following would be of great help!
(from sarah)
Yeah, on second thoughts, if we could do something like
1. Cat
2. Door
3. Cat by open door with big red X
4. Cat by open door with big finger pointing at cat
5. Cat by closed door with big green tick
That would make me very happy.....
We could do a bit of promotional gumph - welcome to shutthatdoormiaow.com, THE place for cat door shutting training. In just 5 simple steps, we will show you how to get rid of that
annoying door-opening habit!!
also
Yeah, and then need to find a hoster and somewhere to do the page, and someone who can do html to do the text - Any ideas for promotional text for our new venture?
ETA hehe, a tutorial session? http://eatin.fotopic.net/p10857750.html
ps those of you from Scene (alas, poor Scene) may remember Sarah as Thesme ;)
www.shutthatdoormiaow.com
Welcome to Shutthatdoormiaow.com!
The website designed to tackle all your cat-opening-doors problems!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As we are all aware the coming winter is forecast to be pretty chilly
(LINK TO MET OFFICE SEASONAL FORECAST). This, combined with rising fuel costs, means we all have to look after our draught proofing needs.
HOWEVER, Cat owners face a particular problem - the Opening-but-not-Shutting-the-Door behaviour so sadly exhibited by too many cats in our Modern Consumerist World. This results in all efforts to adequately heat one's home ending in failure. [IMAGES OF BAD CATS BESIDE OPEN DOORS - MIV'S TROUBLE HERE?]
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
Luckily, we at Shutthatdoormiaow.com have come up with an easy 5(?) step behaviour modification programme which will eliminate unwanted door opening in weeks!!!!!!
(MUST DESIGN PROGRAMME)
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Any ideas on the recommended behaviour modification programme?
Re: www.shutthatdoormiaow.com
I think we all know negative reinforcement doesn't work with cats (eg yelling "stop opening the bloody doors and stay in one place!" rarely has any effect), so we shall have to go with Positive.
Of course positive reinforcment won't be easy either since the subject's notion of what constitutes 'reward' will be different every time.
Re: www.shutthatdoormiaow.com
1. find cat by open door [red cross] [images]
2. intervention [positive reinforcement??????????????? any ideas here?]
3. cat closes door [green tick] [images] (PS I think I can get one of Sam, the step-dad's ginger marshmallow, asleep stretched along the door, thus acting as a draught excluder, excellent)
Of course this is just one element in the site - others being do and don't examples as an intro
1. Cats beside open doors (baaaad)
2. Cats beside closed doors (goooood)
3. The proper use of the cat flap
4. Improper cat flap usage
Some facility whereby people can provide feedback and post calls for help (this may be too ambitious)