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Russian Speaker's Guild of Austin put on the show and it was dedicated to
Charlie Chaplain.

The first thing I learned is that cats are from outer space. Yep, apparently
they came to this planet to bring happines to humans (or something, all this
exposition was given in broken English). The second thing I learned is that you
CAN train a cat, you just can't train them very well. Many a time would a cat
halt while standing on some poor child's back and just stare out into the audi-
ence while Kouklachev waved a treat in its face to try and get it movinng again.
Which brings me to the third thing I learned: the only way you cn gett a cat to
do any sort of trick is to immediately give it some sort of treat. Here's the thing,
I've never in my life seen a cat so into a treat that it would climb a three
meter pole and hang out on top or jump from one child's back to another while
persuing one . Not that I have ever tried, This leads me to believe that the only way
he could possibly get the cats to so vigorously persue thhe treats is by not feeding
them for two or three days before hand. It's just a suspicion, but hey, it fits.

let's get to my main complaint. There was far more circus than there was
cat. A good two-thirds of the show consisted of Kouklachev and his human
cohorts doin wacky clown stuff with occasional cats. And the clown stuff was
really really strange too. I'm talking access TV-meets-Univision-caliber. The first
half of the show was pretty mych just Kouklachev (playing a hobo type clown)
fending off two crook clowns and constantly getting harassed by a cop clown
(remember kids, cops don't want you to have fun) with the occasional cat. I
learned cops are bad. This half ended with Kouklachev and another clown
getting into a cat spaceship and going to the cat home world to live in happi-
ness.

Spring 2001

Russian Speaker's Guild of Austin put on the show and it was dedicated to
Charlie Chaplain.

The first thing I learned is that cats are from outer space. Yep, apparently
they came to this planet to bring happines to humans (or something, all this
exposition was given in broken English). The second thing I learned is that you
CAN train a cat, you just can't train them very well. Many a time would a cat
halt while standing on some poor child's back and just stare out into the audi-
ence while Kouklachev waved a treat in its face to try and get it movinng again.
Which brings me to the third thing I learned: the only way you cn gett a cat to
do any sort of trick is to immediately give it some sort of treat. Here's the thing,
I've never in my life seen a cat so into a treat that it would climb a three
meter pole and hang out on top or jump from one child's back to another while
persuing one . Not that I have ever tried, This leads me to believe that the only way
he could possibly get the cats to so vigorously persue thhe treats is by not feeding
them for two or three days before hand. It's just a suspicion, but hey, it fits.

let's get to my main complaint. There was far more circus than there was
cat. A good two-thirds of the show consisted of Kouklachev and his human
cohorts doin wacky clown stuff with occasional cats. And the clown stuff was
really really strange too. I'm talking access TV-meets-Univision-caliber. The first
half of the show was pretty mych just Kouklachev (playing a hobo type clown)
fending off two crook clowns and constantly getting harassed by a cop clown
(remember kids, cops don't want you to have fun) with the occasional cat. I
learned cops are bad. This half ended with Kouklachev and another clown
getting into a cat spaceship and going to the cat home world to live in happi-
ness.

Spring 2001