ICAT - International Cat Agility Tournaments

For Course information, go to the Courses page.

For Obstacle information, go to the Specifications page.

Cats are very intelligent, and easily trainable!

Practice for agility can be done around the house (over the bed, chair to chair, under the table, etc.) How young should you start cat agility? Taty Kalani started Stardust at five weeks at home as you can see in this video (2.3Mb) - Play with your cat every day!

Train with patience, respect and affection, because domestic cats are colony animals (not pack animals, like dogs are), and cats have a more cooperative nature than is customarily recognized. Take time to decode their communication and form a connection with your cat -- you will both enjoy it. See pictures of Training at Home. - Focusing on the beauty from within.

In Pictures of cats in action on the agility course, you can see how much they enoy it. - Cat agility is fun for you AND your cat!

Clicker training is works well. Wendy Jeffries has answered questions about it on the ICAT-Events discussion group, and chairs a Cat Clicker Training discussion group, both of which you are welcome to participate in.

Miriam Fields-Babineau has been training animal actors for 25 years, and has a Cat Corner and Training Demonstration page and calendar on her website.

There is also an interesting video clip on the cat section of Karen Pryor's clickertraining.com website, of a clicker trained agility cat. What is clicker training?

Note : Clickers should not be used in the agility ring. Clicks are not commands, they are bridges to connect behavior to command, and are not needed (except as reinforcers when training or practicing at home) in the agility ring. The agility ring at shows is not meant for training, as other cats in the hall will easily hear the clicker, too.

For very entertaining cat tales, both training and other adventures, try Lisa-Maria Padilla's MeowClick. For a website with an astonishing amount of interesting information about cats, visit Sarah Hartwell's MessyBeast site.

Most of all, love, patience and practice are what makes great agility cats!