Teaching a cat tricks – what if the cat is so used to an old trick it can’t learn a new one?


We have a 6 month old kitten who is clicker trained to sit on command. She is so well trained that when I try and teach her a new trick she just sits and looks at me like "give me my treat woman!".
I was thinking about doing the training in another room or something to make it different. Maybe a different treat for each trick?
Any ideas?
Progress! As of last night she can now "beg". Going to work on "lie down" tonight.
I was very strict with the treat giving and she got the idea.

Just tell her no when she doesn’t do it right and do not give her a treat. Then later ask her to do that trick and reward her. She will learn.

My one cat can "stand", "be cute" (kind of like play dead) and "roll over". It was hard to teach her the difference between the last two, but with a little patience, it paid off.

Also, I taught the other one to play the piano (his name is liberace and we got him a 4 key kid piano)

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