It turns out cats are really good at intermittent reinforcement, too :) I don't know about tricks, or teaching cats to go somewhere they don't want to. I do kn

It turns out cats are really good at intermittent reinforcement, too :) I don't know about tricks, or teaching cats to go somewhere they don't want to. I do know that it was fairly straightforward to teach our cats that kitchen surfaces are off limits. Taught them when they were ~2-3 months old, and they never forgot. For 20 years. Same goes for "humans are not climbing posts". It seems in general easier to train "don't" than "do".