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Taking your indoor cat out for a walk is a joy. No, really!!! (Original Post) MiddleFingerMom Jun 2013 OP
I had one I drug around the block once rurallib Jun 2013 #1
Oh, just get a dog already! femmocrat Jun 2013 #2
I've never really had a cat take to the leash. Loryn Jun 2013 #3
I can't get that far csziggy Jun 2013 #4
I have never been scratched. GoCubsGo Jun 2013 #6
This cat is semi-feral, though he's mellowed with age. csziggy Jun 2013 #7
I tried that with a kitten once. Arugula Latte Jun 2013 #5
My last and MOST affectionate cat (who could be stubborn -- but... MiddleFingerMom Jun 2013 #8
Put a harness on a 4 week old kitten. kiva Jun 2013 #9
Your "Arte Johnson" image is HILARIOUS!!! MiddleFingerMom Jun 2013 #10
Thank Ceiling Cat you got it, kiva Jun 2013 #11
Yeah, um.... my dad... yeah, my DAD used to tell me about that. Yeah... that's why. MiddleFingerMom Jun 2013 #12
Man, your dad is OLD!!!! kiva Jun 2013 #13
We don't like to brag about it... but he turned down an "oldest age" listing in The Guinness Book. MiddleFingerMom Jun 2013 #14
No...they promised me they'd hold that listing open for me! kiva Jun 2013 #15

csziggy

(34,120 posts)
4. I can't get that far
Fri Jun 14, 2013, 11:04 AM
Jun 2013

The one time I tried to put a harness on my cat he tore my arm up. Then, when my husband tried to help, he tore my husband's arm up. We did get the harness on but while we were cleaning the blood off, he managed to get it off - I think he used a tesseract to do it.

GoCubsGo

(32,061 posts)
6. I have never been scratched.
Fri Jun 14, 2013, 11:07 AM
Jun 2013

Mine always laid there like they were in a straight jacket. Never could get the used to a harness. The two I cat-sit are fine wearing their "jackets", however.

csziggy

(34,120 posts)
7. This cat is semi-feral, though he's mellowed with age.
Fri Jun 14, 2013, 11:30 AM
Jun 2013

He used to attack me regularly, now only when he's out of food. And now I can actually pet him - most of the time. When he weighed 4 ounces he beat up and terrorized my husband's big 18-20 pound cat. He hasn't slowed down much even though he's 12 years old.

 

Arugula Latte

(50,566 posts)
5. I tried that with a kitten once.
Fri Jun 14, 2013, 11:06 AM
Jun 2013

She absolutely freaked and slipped out of the harness. I was able to grab her. Never tried that again.

Kitties say: Obedience for dogs! Screw that!

MiddleFingerMom

(25,163 posts)
8. My last and MOST affectionate cat (who could be stubborn -- but...
Fri Jun 14, 2013, 11:39 AM
Jun 2013

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... was most gentle cat that I've ever had -- BOTH those qualities
were a big part of what I liked so much about her) was called NoName
(a psuedo-Tohono O'Odham name pronounced "no-NAH-h'MAY) and she
didn't like the harness.... at first.
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She made it difficult for me to get it on her for the first two or three
days, though she didn't get violent (she never EVER got violent -- she
was the sweetest cat I've ever had). We didn't go for walks until she
adjusted to it (about 2-3 days, four hours per day).
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When we did, it was GREAT fun. The neighbor's tuxedo would go for
walks on a leash, but would plop down for five minutes every 100
yards or so (my neighbor took a book with her.)
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Not NoName, she would TROT along the whole trip, sometime at my
heels and sometimes at the limits of the 15-foor retractable leash.
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Every walk was an ADVENTURE.
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I miss her so much.
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kiva

(4,373 posts)
9. Put a harness on a 4 week old kitten.
Fri Jun 14, 2013, 11:43 AM
Jun 2013

Kitten stiffened her legs and fell onto her side - just like Arte Johnson on his tricycle on Laugh-in (for anyone else who's older than dirt).

Never tried it again, just gave away the harness and leash.

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