The Acro-Cats wrapped up ten days of performances in Orlando this weekend with some amazing acrobatic feats. Some of their skills look like something from a circus, like walking a tightrope.
Or jumping long distances through hoops.
Or pushing a glitter ball.
It seemed like they were always in motion. Well, almost always. Little Jax spent a lot of time sitting in front of her oversized cutout, except for when she wandered out into the delighted audience.
The cats are trained by Samantha Martin, who has trained many animals professionally and now travels on a bus with the Acro-Cats to bring them to audiences around the country.
Onstage, they run, leap, climb, and manipulate things with their paws.
Have you ever wanted your cat to be able to do tricks like climbing a perch when you ask?
Part of the show is Samantha talking about her clicker training and target pole methods, where she assures you that you can teach your cat the same thing.
The thought of Ashton learning to ring a bell every time she wants more chicken is kind of scary, so we probably won’t be teaching this trick this at our house.
Some of the cats have musical talents, too, and they play in the Rock Cats band.
There were a lot of percussion instruments in the Rock Cats band.
The famous Tuna even plays more cowbell!
Not everyone in the Acro-Cats show was a cat. In addition Samantha and her two human helpers, there was also a groundhog.
There was also a chicken who could bowl. (Don’t tell Ashton.)
All of the cats performing in the Acro-Cats are rescues, and the traveling troupe picks up abandoned kittens needing fosters, raises them, trains them, and eventually adopts them out to forever homes. They currently have a bottle baby traveling with them who joined the group at their previous stop in New Orleans.
The Acro-cats really bring the message of adopting rescued animals to a whole new level. You can see if they’re scheduled to visit a town near you at The Amazing Acro-Cats web site.
We love the Acro-Cats! My human has seen them twice in L.A.
We’d never heard of the Acro-Cats before but they look as though they are enjoying performing in their show.
Luv Hannah and Lucy xx xx
Those are some talented cats! We’d like to have a band…that would be fun.
What an amazing act! I sure wish they would come to my area!
de fame mouz TUNA !!!!
cranbereez eye dinna noe eye wuz fame mouz….wait til de cuzins boomer & dai$y heer a bout this…..N just wait til de food serviss gurl getz home
frum werk…
yea, stuffz gonna be a LOT diffrunt round heer frum now on …..ewe betcha !
tuna of moon 🙂
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well, now that cousin tuna is…. through…..with that …speech…
may boomer and I say the acro cats look amazing !! =^..*=
dai$y ♥♥♥
mom follows them on facebook and SO wants to see them in person 🙂
That sure does look like a great show. Cats are really smart. It would be fun to train one to do that.
Dang, they really are amazing and quite the lookers too!
The Mom has never seen the AcroCats, but hers would sure love to! They do some really amazing things, and we love that their trainers use positive reinforcement to train them.
WOW THAT IS A WELL BALANCED KITTY
HUGS MADI YOUR BFFF
Mom immediately hopped over to their web-site and found the acro-cats will be in Richmond, VA on a weekend she and Dad are going to be there. Now she is super excited and hoping she can get tickets. What a great thing these people are doing to foster rescue adoption. Mom says she’ll let you know if she gets to go to the show. XOCK, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Jo
Amazing how she does it. We’ve seen a documentary on tv one time about these acro cats or something like them. How incredible. We’d like to see it when they come to town.
We saw them last Summer in San Francisco. They are amazing and your photos beat the heck outta mine!
Amazing! Our mom will have to check them out to see when they come to our town. And hey! Our mom has one of those bells… Hmmm….
what a blast that was! You are so lucky that you got to go!
Amazing ! We’d never heard of the Acro-Cats before ! Thanks for letting us know about them ! Purrs
When I was young and living at home we had a kitty who learned to bang the cabinet doors when he was hungry. This behavior drove my father crazy and he would often talk quite negatively about the cat, so I set out to change the behavior and put him on a particular chair every time I fed him. I would stop feeding him if he jumped down from the chair and only resume dishing out the food if he were sitting there.
After only a short time he learned that sitting in the chair got him food.. I can’t tell you how proud I was of him the first time I saw him sitting there waiting.. I ran so fast to feed him it wasn’t funny 🙂
WAIT. More COWbell? Uh, did Glogirly see that?? MOL. We think the ringing of the bell for foods is PAWEsome and we’ll start practicing TODAY. Mommy. …Mommy?
Those cats are amazing!
I am seriously impressed that she could train a TORTIE!
Whoa! A bowling chicken! Heh! TW doesn’t like me playing with my food. Sounds like a fun show.
Mommy would LOVE to see them!
btw: Foundation-sleeping usually starts around 100F…
Oh my CHICKEN!!!
This is just the coolest… what an amazing show. And your photos!!! WOW! You must have either been sitting in the front row or had an uber long lens! We enjoyed this SO much!
We caught this cat act a few years back and loved them!
We love the Acro-Cats! Mom has seen them once. They don’t live too far from us when they aren’t touring.
How cool that you got to see them! They awe us, they really do.