I Trained My Cat To Become A Goalkeeper

this is my cat Ollie, he is my best friend, we do everything together, we sleep together, we work together and he even keeps me company when I am alone, but there is one thing we can't do together and that is play football, which makes me sad . I want to share all the experiences I can with him, since I am a

goalkeeper

. I thought this would be the perfect way to spend more time together, so I decided to train Olle to find out if he has what it takes to

become

a

goalkeeper

. Like his dad, I now know that Olie is a smart cat because when he was a young kitten I was able to teach him to punch me, but teaching him to

become

a goalie is a whole different level.

First we have to see what Olie is currently. Most cats are known to be capable of jumping very high and have crazy reflexes. Olly, on the other hand, not so much the former. I had this little toy lying around in the garage and I thought it was the perfect size for Ollie, so I got this little stuffed ball and decided to just roll it around to him and see what happens now. The first few times Ollie didn't seem interested in the ball, but eventually it happened. See how this may not seem like much to you? but to me this was a sign that there is something there, I swear, it's a pleasure, well done and it wasn't just something well done one time, Ollie, yes that's a saving grace, unfortunately our quick success was short lived but this led to our first training technique you didn't touch it oh that's what we need from you that's what we need from you again yes M after finding our first training technique I was able to teach Ollie to kick the ball and we did it This It was successful in a short period of time, yes, well done, he understands, understands again, this was phase one of our training.

If I could make him understand that if he pauses on the ball, he will receive a treat, then we can slowly work on throwing the ball. and I hope he starts making some stops. The reason I'm pushing OE to train as a goalkeeper is because I want to spend as much time as I can with him last year. We also had a cat named Kiwi. like olly, but unfortunately he got sick and passed away before he was one year old, so when we got ollie I made a promise to myself saying that I wanted to spend as much time as possible with him because I know life can be short.

So you have to make the most of it. That being said, I'm excited to see what the next few days have in store. We know there is something there. He enjoys the ball. He likes to play with her. He walked around a couple of times. Where do we go from here? How are we doing from this man's first touch? How do we go from this? Look at him, he's so cute where he's just sitting with one paw on top of the ball to him making stops on top, we know all about it. He understands that if he touches the ball, he receives a reward, but how did I decide to attach the ball to a rope and a stick?

This way he could imitate a shot going towards the top corner and hopefully OE can save and attack the ball. boom boom that's the whole plan it's working sometimes my temper is almost terrifying Ollie also understood this he was doing so well he even made his best save but he took it he's going towards the goal he's going up to the right does he salvation boom Oh? in the OP you want to save me I'm going to take the ball off the stick, start rolling and maybe throw a couple, bounce a couple, see what he does there, I hope he can do exactly the same without the stick.

The ball comes into what you are doing. just watch you scratch your belly. The ball comes in boom, yes, well done, okay, so he understands it without the stick, it's just that I think the speed of the ball will be behind you, oh, well done after successfully teaching Alli to jump . these higher balls I wanted to try some lower balls and then this happened, okay? Did I just teach him to have a first touch? Unlock achievements, teach your cat to have a first touch. Well done again. The goalkeeper is not a success. The video will do it.

It will be called I Taught My Cat to Have a First Touch. Yes, you have a better touch than most people, don't you? He has the first touch of it under his control now, so I decided to start throwing some balls to see what he would do now. It would be a little more difficult for him. Sorry, sorry, he just has really bad reflexes. It seems this is where I noticed two problems. First, the ball was too heavy for him, so he couldn't P properly. Secondly, his reaction speed was too slow to address this problem. I decided to go to Amazon and buy these little plush soccer balls to see if they would work better.

I think this might be better for him because he is a little smaller and softer. Squishy, ​​the big ball we've been using is relatively heavy so this is a birthday gift for him because today is his birthday, he turned one, let's see if he likes Ollie, look at that, I think it's fair to say that Ollie really liked his birthday present, but it's time to get back to training. I am very excited to see how Olie will do with these new soccer balls. I have little soft balls for his birthday. I think you'll have an easier time stopping them, so let's see how.

He does test number one. The magic with the smaller balls was definitely a step in the right direction, but I started to notice some other problems. OE wasn't usually in the right position to save a shot, and if he was, he wasn't willing to move. side to side or jump very far to save a shot so I decided to call in some reinforcements and that's when I found Molly Theos, she's a cat expert and they even call her the Cat Whisperer and if there's anyone out there who can tell me help turn. Ollie in a real doorman, it was going to be her and her name is Molly so it seems like it's meant to be so I sent her a message explaining the situation we're currently in and she responded quickly and said she could help .

Molly DeVos is also Dutch and I am a certified feline behavior and training specialist. After talking to Molly for a while, I even showed her what Ollie is currently capable of and she gave us a couple of tips on what we should work on next. We're going to want to work on your timing, so it's very important that your verbal marker, what you say, marks the behavior. Let's work on Setting up the training so you can easily set him up and ready to go and then work on training him for jumping and rewarding him for jumping high, so there are three things we need to work on, first of all, my Q verbal timing needs to be better, that is, when Olle does something well, I need to say "good boy" immediately, secondly, we need to place him. train Ollie so that when he says goalkeeper he enters the goal in a certain position, ready to stop a shot and last but not least we need to train his jumping strength so he can reach those top corners, that being said following.

We got straight to work, so we got some tips to start training Ollie, so hopefully we can get to a space where if we say the word goalkeeper, he will stand in the goal after our call. Molly will send us a document that includes instructions to get started. Place training Ollie seems harder than it is, but it basically says we place a spot on the floor with tape or a mat and every time he sniffs it or climbs on it, you mark the behavior with a unique word and then quickly. we put a treat on the spot, then we release it with a new treat and do that process again, so hopefully the next time he sits on the mat he starts to understand that every time he sits there he will get a treat after repeating this process over and over again.

Again Ollie finally started to understand now when I say the word Ollie goalkeeper Ollie knows to go and sit in the square, good boy Ollie, I think he understands now that he will go to that place, he knows that when he goes there he gets a gift during our training I have been working on my nice verbal rhythm, good boy, now the training was a success, the last thing we needed to work on was Olie's jumping strength to do this. Molly advised me to hold the smaller ball to a stick and Before the game with Ollie, it means that I would take the ball towards him and throw it in the air, this would strengthen Allie's legs and the goal is to get her to jump higher, so That's what we put the ball on the club you need to start seeing this. as prey so we can get it to fly to the upper corners after previously playing with Ollie for a few days.

I can definitely see big improvements in his jumping strength and develop his jumping strength even more every time I give him a treat. I would have him stand on his hind legs and reach for the treat so we can definitely say that his jumping strength has increased significantly after training Olly and significantly increasing his jumping strength. I decided it was time to drop the ball on the stick now I was throwing and bouncing balls at him to see how he reacted and that's when Ollie did something I never expected him to do good boy good boy you can even catch the ball now what and he catching the ball was not a Once he did this several times this man is a natural goalkeeper, good boy, what not, but now it was time for his final test, after not days or weeks, but months of training, it was time to Find out if OE has what it takes. to become a goalkeeper enough Ric the post Crossing to G in a good and a wonderful save comes out of sh will do well Newber oh magnificent save of vasar good hitter brilliant stop of Gea again yorri ttin, is he going to have another chance? amazing save from De Gea and a chance oh what to say Alexander Arold that's a brilliant save so those were some of oi's best saves and I couldn't be more proud of him because he ignored the ball and couldn't do anything Not only did I have incredible touch for the first time and even catch a few balls and make top corner saves like a real goalkeeper, but most importantly the amount of time we spent together.

This was an amazing project and I enjoyed every second of it. I love you olly and of course I love you kiwi I know you would have been an amazing goalie I still miss you every day B boo what a beast