Cats just aren't the same..i still like the rat idea better..my poor sweetie was all tired from going to the vets yesterday :( poor ni...anyways just teaching a cat to chase or..wait that's aboutall you can do, wouldn't provide enough entertainment value. it is true a small number of cats ahve actually been trained, but to take this for the norm in a game,when it isn't, breaks the realistic feeling Nintendogs gives you. Maybe they could find away around it...like teaching your cat to chase a wind-up mouse and having that as a contest...after that it's hard..showing class...but what would they do in it? no tricks...hmmm you could have a climb class i guess ^^; but hey nintendo are the inspirational imagination...if they wanted to do it, they would, and they would do itwell...as fro my nintendpokemon idea..i realise we have hey you pikachu (wellnot here in the uk *grumles about different dialets excuse*) but that's just pikachu on a mini adventure where you help him...you could have a nintendogs version where you can get a variety of baby pokemon...and keep it in the nintendogs contest formats...except the obidience class could be a contest like in the contest tents...and the disk throwcould be a litle battle..the agility would be quite funto keepas it is...and you could train them to learn attacks instead of tricks...i need towork for nintendo ;p