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15
Simple Ways to Enhance your Cat's Creative Potential
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Play
interesting games with your cat using bright coloured
balls.
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You
can also use bright coloured woollen strings to play
games.
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Cats
are very sensitive to light, colour, sound and rhythm.
Play soothing music everyday an hour before you begin
your training session every day. The music will help
to calm you and your cat and will help to radiate
positive energy.
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Paint
the walls of your house in bright, attractive colours
and make sure that the decor of your room has a lot
of interesting patterns and designs in attractive
colours. This will subconsciously sensitise your cat
to colours, textures, and patterns.
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You
can also make a lot of attractive cards ( 5'' x 7"
) using card paper and coloured photographs of dogs,
other cats, birds trees, mice, butterflies, earthworms,
caterpillars, frogs, lizards and other commonly used
objects in everyday life. In the beginning, it may
be better to use coloured photographs as these are
the ones that most closely correspond to reality.
The most basic concept that your cat needs to be able
to understand is that the images on the cards represent
abstractions of images that occur in the real world.
To understand that the creatures on the paper are
not real would take your cat some time to grasp. Keep
flashing them in front of your cat and observe your
cat's response to them. In a few weeks time, (some
cats may take a few days while others may take a few
months), your cat will learn to understand and identify
the objects and images that you flash in front of
your pet. You need to be patient with your pet. It
takes time to learn and understand.
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Encourage
your cat to watch television, especially the nature
programmes where there are a lot of animals and birds
and also the special shows for cats.
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The
best time to develop your cat's creative inclinations,
is during the kitten days. Kittens are very curious,
playful and learn very fast. Adult cats too can be
taught and do learn quite fast.
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Always
use bright coloured contrasting clothes when you are
training your cat. That subconsciously sensitises
your cat to colours.
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Show
your cat lots of interesting patterns - repeating
geometrical patterns, black and white lines, designs
in single blocks of colours, interesting motifs of
animals and birds. Remember cats see in colour.
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Keep
a small palette of colours and throw little blobs
of paint on a white sheet of paper
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Allow
your cat to play on the paper and observe the patterns
that begin to emerge.
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Use
a soft and affectionate tone of voice when you teach
your cat. Do not be judgmental about your cat's creative
talents.
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Remember
to praise your cat every time he or she responds in
a positive way.
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Always
arrange for a feed immediately after a training session.
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Make
sure that your training sessions do not last for more
than 15 minutes.
Conclusion
There are many ways by which you can enhance your creative
intelligence and your cat's creative intelligence. Enlisted
below are some ways. If you can ponder on this a little more,
you can think of some more novel ways and then may be you
can write in and tell us about it and share with us your experiences.
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