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Apparently, the people of Bern. Switzerland, are crazy for garden cats! They have deployed hand-made cat ladders all over town and even more surprising, given the typical intractable feline nature, the cats are actually using them!
Several people have called this article to my attention since it was published last June on Atlas Obscura, so I thought it was time to share it.
IMHO, the best parts of the piece are the quotes from Dennis C. Turner, a veteran cat behaviorist, who I was not familiar with before. He maintains that: “Once an outdoor cat, always an outdoor cat.” That once a cat has known the outdoors, it is cruel to keep them always confined inside.
He also notes that cats are trainable... on their own terms. “Cats only learn when they want to learn,” Turner says. “Punishment never works with them, but positive reinforcement does.”
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