As the sisters developed their own training technique, however, they produced a videotape that proves they can teach cats to do everything except flush afterward. The key, they say, is understanding the mind of a cat. Cats are smarter than dogs. They just don t have as much desire to please, Emily said. Sarah added that the main obstacle is stubbornness not intelligence.
Cats don t like change.
They re like people that way, Sarah said. Most problems, she stressed, can be handled by slowing the process down, taking a little extra time with each step. It might take a little more than three weeks for some cats, but they ll learn if you go slow enough, Sarah said. That s never a problem, Sarah said. A more common problem happens when the cat decides it likes to play in the water.