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Outwitting Cats: Tips, Tricks and Techniques for Persuading the Felines in Your Life That What YOU Want Is Also What THEY Want

by Wendy Christensen

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Happily, Wendy Christensen knows they're wrong. True, cats are intelligent, adaptable, patient, independent, stubborn, observant, and extremely quick learners. But they're also remarkably self- interested and quick to exploit a good deal. Outwitting a cat means persuading the cat that what you want is also what he wants.… (more)
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Some helpful ideas, but unfortunately Carl and Maisie seem disastrously wrong for one another.
  solicitouslibrarian | Aug 20, 2009 |
As a member of a multiple cat household, I found this book very helpful in encouraging amity and discouraging some of the less savory territorial behaviors. Recommended. ( )
1 vote BarbN | Sep 15, 2007 |
This book confirms what I've suspected all along: you can't outwit your cat. You can not train your cat. You can only make accomodations and hope for the best. ( )
1 vote drinkingtea | Mar 22, 2006 |
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Happily, Wendy Christensen knows they're wrong. True, cats are intelligent, adaptable, patient, independent, stubborn, observant, and extremely quick learners. But they're also remarkably self- interested and quick to exploit a good deal. Outwitting a cat means persuading the cat that what you want is also what he wants.

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