Treats are good tools to use to teach your Scottish fold how to do tricks or you can uses treats as simple treats to show your fold that you love him or her. Treats have come a long way over the last several years. Treats are much more appealing and taste much better now than in the past.
Treats come in many different kinds of flavors, like fish, liver, turkey, chicken, and many other flavors as well. The treats usually come in small bite size morsels that are easy for the cat to eat quickly. Treats are, given directly from the owners hand to the Scottish fold if the Scottish fold is a well, mannered cat. Some cats go wild with treats and wish to dig into the treats with fully bared claws this is an ill-mannered cat. This kind of behavior does not deserve a treat, as it is painful for the owner offering the treat.
Treats should only be, given as a reward for good manners other wise the Scottish fold would think that this kind of behavior is acceptable and continue to behave badly. If the Scottish fold does not take a treat from the owner in an easy, gentle manner then the fold should not be, offered the treats.
When he or she no longer receives the treat then they will soon realize that this type of behavior is unacceptable and think about his or her own behavior. The next time a treat is, offered it should be different and the fold should be mannerly when receiving the treat. If the same bad manner is, repeated then withhold all treats.
Treats can be, used to train a Scottish fold as well when the owners are trying to train the Scottish fold to do a task. This is usually a good way of training an animal of any kind. Using food treats seems to get the attention of an animal much better that using a clicker to train. Food is, used to let the Scottish fold know when he or she does something acceptable.
If you are, using treats to teach the fold to come when you call out his or her name. If the fold does in fact come to you then you may give the Scottish fold the treat as a reward for coming when called. If the Scottish fold does not come then the treat is, withheld from the fold until it comes to you. If you give the fold, the treat and it just sit and looks at you then it will think you just want it to sit and look at you.
Therefore, only give the treat to the Scottish fold when it does what you wish. Otherwise, you will only confuse the Scottish fold.
Treats are also, given to the Scottish fold at non-training times just to say I Love You to your pet. Use a different type or flavor treat to treat the Scottish fold. This will keep training and loving time separate. Use the Scottish fold favorite treat during training and a different treat to say I Love You to the fold. Saying I Love You should be frequent but not over done with the Scottish fold.