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Before giving her food, I use to ask Dolly to shake or beg or give paw, and she’d lift one paw up (always her right one) for me. Now she’s associated the paw-lifting action with being fed, so she skips the step of me saying anything and automatically does it.
She’ll do anything for food really.
She’s gorgeous! And chubby ;) She must be doing a lot of begging.
Actually, she’s lost a lot of weight, compared to how fat she used to be, but it’s hard to tell. Her stomach is a lot slimmer, but it still sags to the ground.
I don’t think she’ll ever lose it, heh.
She’s such a cool cat. Before i met her i absolutely didn’t care for cats, mainly because the ones i’d known in my life were stuck-up or teased so badly as kittens that they were traumatized. I thought most/all cats were just like that by nature, then i realised that cats too reflect their owners (or at least some of them do)
Dolly’s one of the main reasons i became interested in owning a cat of my own one day.
Dolly’s been able to make a few cat lovers out of dog lovers over the years. People say that she’s the most dog-like cat they’ve ever met. Maybe that’s her appeal.