{"id":469,"date":"2023-05-30T16:45:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T20:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thechroniclesoftodd.com\/site\/?p=469"},"modified":"2023-05-30T16:45:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T20:45:51","slug":"response-to-jackson-galaxy-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechroniclesoftodd.com\/site\/response-to-jackson-galaxy-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to Jackson Galaxy Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Todd and I started working together to learn how to communicate with each other through the use of recordable buttons a year ago.\u00a0 Todd has done an amazing job and is currently at 32 words and ready for his next set of words this upcoming weekend.\u00a0 Jackson Galaxy, a well-known cat behaviorist, recently released a video where if I understood it correctly was saying cats are not actually communicating with us but rather just exhibiting a push and reward response when using buttons.\u00a0 Shortly after the video was released I made a response video showing Todd using his buttons in a manner that goes beyond just a push and reward system but in my opinion, exhibits true thought and communication.\u00a0 You can see my response video here<\/a>.\u00a0 There is a link in the description of the video to Jackson’s original video but I believe he has since taken it down.<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t know what research or videos Jackson looked at to come to this conclusion but I hope he will view my response video and it will lead to a discussion on the topic.\u00a0 Some of the examples I provided in my video are of Todd using far more words than are necessary to get the \u201cReward\u201d he wants.\u00a0 He wanted to play with his string thing and could have just pressed that button and known he will get it yet he takes the time to say \u201cSoon\u201d\u00a0 \u201cPlay\u201d\u00a0 \u201cTodd\u201d(\u2018s)\u00a0 \u201cString Thing\u201d.\u00a0 Again, way more than what is necessary to get me to turn on the toy and he knows soon means less than 15 minutes and later means longer than 15 minutes.\u00a0 Another example is Todd told me he was going to take a nap.\u00a0 He pushed \u201cSleep\u201d and went to my recliner, got up on it, and went to sleep.\u00a0 I would ask in this situation here what is the \u201cReward\u201d?\u00a0 He asks for nothing, he gets nothing.\u00a0 This is communication, Todd is saying Hey Dad, I\u2019m going to take a nap now.\u00a0 Another example in the video is Todd sleeping in Glamour’s basket.\u00a0 Glamour does not like anyone in her basket and when she found Todd asleep she woke him up by smacking him in the head.\u00a0 Todd got up and went to the buttons and told me \u201cOuch\u201d \u00a0\u201cSleep\u201d.\u00a0 I think that is an amazing way to tell me Glamour hit him in the head while he was sleeping.\u00a0 Again, there was no “Reward” here, he was simply telling me Glamour hit him.<\/p>\n

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When teaching Todd we only do single words\/concepts and their meanings, I do not teach multiple words.\u00a0 Todd is adding the additional words on his own and the words he chooses, while they may not be in the normal order, are correct for what he is trying to say.\u00a0 I do not understand how this is not communication.\u00a0 I feel cats are so much smarter than most people give them credit for and studies are being done now to learn what cats understand and if this is true communication or not.\u00a0 The most prominent one I am aware of is over at TheyCan Talk.org.\u00a0 So Jackson, watch more Billi, watch more CatManJohn, and watch more Todd and reach out to one or all of us, I know I would love to discuss it with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Todd and I started working together to learn how to communicate with each other through the use of recordable buttons a year ago.\u00a0 Todd has done an amazing job and is currently at 32 words and ready for his next set of words this upcoming weekend.\u00a0 Jackson Galaxy, a well-known cat behaviorist, recently released a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-todds-blog","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechroniclesoftodd.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechroniclesoftodd.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechroniclesoftodd.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechroniclesoftodd.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechroniclesoftodd.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thechroniclesoftodd.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/thechroniclesoftodd.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechroniclesoftodd.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechroniclesoftodd.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechroniclesoftodd.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechroniclesoftodd.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}