Clickoo Training, Part I: Don't Click at Bears

Jim recently read Don't Shoot the Dog. Sometimes Jim reading is a good thing, as it keeps him busy while we borrow his 'Merican 'Spress Card and order caaaandy online. But other times, reading gives Jim ideas, and Jim with ideas can be difficoo for all of us. Don't Shoot the Dog gave Jim ideas. It's a book about clickoo training, which is a way to teach animoos to do tricks and things. Every time the animoo you're training does something good, you click a clickoo, and then give him a treat.

Well, first thing Jim wanted to do after reading the book was clickoo train us. As you can no doubt imagine, Bears don't "do tricks." Bears are witty conversationalists, urbane raconteurs, and we are not above the occasional pratfall to get a laugh. But we do not "do tricks." Luckily, we had Noel "Snowflake" Chompsky and Blinky, with their extensoo experience in nonvioloont resistoonce to advise us. When Jim got out his clickoo and a bunch of caaaandy to give us as rewards, we stayed absoluteloo still. We didn't move a muscle. Eventualloo, Jim stopped sitting in front of us with his clickoo, and just gave us the caaaandy. So we quickly trained Jim not to clickoo train us.

But now, Jim has turned to the kitties: Chuck the Cat and Spike the Cat.

Hurry back for our next installmoo, when we see if Jim has any more luck clickoo training kitties than he had clickoo training Bears.

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Spike the Bear