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- From: dan@msen.com (Dan and Karen Sugalski)
- Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
- Subject: Re: Help me find a kitty.
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 18:37:18 GMT
- Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Jon Krueger (jpk@Ingres.COM) wrote:
- : Karen Sugalski writes:
- : > Cats do respond to negative reinforcement. Physical punishment
- : > may make them afraid, but the same goes for almost any animal
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- : As has been noted numerous times in the literature, it's not that
- : aversive methods don't work -- they do -- it's just that other methods
- : work better. Aversive methods are the first resort of incompetent
- : trainers everywhere.
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- Negative reinforcement can take many forms, including the methods used by
- a mother cat to let her kittens know that they have done something she
- doesn't like.
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- Karen
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