It took just under 2 weeks to progressively introduce Nova to her new friend Coffee. We chose to do a progressive and positive introduction to maintain the cat's confidence and teach Nova to curb her chasing instinct.
After about 12 days, they were comfortable being together and this is a picture of them today during their first combined clicker training session this morning. Coffee is learning to sit and Nova is showing the way!


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Nova just got some new toys.... well really they are meant for work, but she LOVES them. We got yesterday in the post some pheasant wings and some rabbit skin covered disc and ball. 
After a LOT of sniffing and a few attempts at nibbling at them, we got into training and practise some "hold".
With the help of the clicker, it wasn't long until she knew exactly what she had to do and here are a few shots of her holding her trophies:


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Following chats with loads of Facebook friends and after seeing their great work. We decided to give a go at body awareness exercises. With all the personal training equipment lying around, it's a wonder why we never tried that before.
Nova loved it, she thinks it's great fun despite the fact that it is really hard to balance and she was really wobbly on the gym ball and Bosu.


It was also a great eye opener for our daily walk in Richmond park and we found some more ideas to practise balance the...
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