I moved into a new neighborhood and found out my neighbor uses a leash to take along a cat. This old lady and her family uses this to "walk" the feline at her place. I can understand using a leash on dogs and small children, but I haven't found holding cats like that really a great idea. Aren't cats known for their somewhat independent lifestyle? Anyway, thoughts?

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It doesn't work. You have to train the cat for months and months. I've tried it before, and the cat attacked its collar and basically went wherever the hell it wanted anyway.

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My mom walks our cat occasionally. She's been doing it since he was a kitten so he's used to it, but alot of cats will just sit in one spot and not move, basically cus of their independant nature and the fact that they don't like to go where you want them too.

But yeah, my cats an indoor cat so it's the only time outside he gets (without the leash he would run away)

edit: no it does not take monthes of training. All it took was puttin him on a leash when he was a kitten and doing it ever since. Also, he walks completely normal, just like a dog (he even takes a crap sometimes)

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I've had cats that would follow me on a wolk, but never on a leash.

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I know, I meant adult cats. Kittens will do anything. Anyway, my cats are stupid--they won't take a crap outside and whine at the door to be let in so they can use the stupid litterbox.

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Children on a leash?! WHAT THE HELL?

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That's insanely stupid. Cats can walk themselves, because unlike dogs, they don't randomly attack your neighbors after ****ting and pissing on their property.

I hate people who ignore leash laws and can't be bothered to restrain their dogs on public streets. It's inconsiderate, arrogant, and most importantly, goddamn illegal. I consider it my highest civic duty to inform them that a friendly reminder from animal control is only a seven-digit number away!

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I think that most people who don't leash their dog know that the dog isn't going to do anything agressive; and if they do, well then, they SHOULD leash the animal. As for leashing cats? I think it's kinda silly really, the cat will go where it wants to go when it wants to go. Although, for the record, I've been stratched by cats many more times than I've been bitten by dogs.

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I saw a box cover for a child leash once. The kid looked so depressed.

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Mine just sits on or lies across my shoulders. Yarrr! I guess he likes the view. Or maybe he whispers evil suggestions into my ear.

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My cats don't like it outside. They're like me.

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Yeah, my grandparents have a VERY old cat (Like 12 years old +) and it mostly fends for itselfs. It catches fish, mice anything. Such a sweet cat, because its so independant. It'll go out days at a time only to return for some cat food if it didn't catch anything to eat, or to sleep on my lap.

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We let our cat outside if shes on her leash. We connected the leash to our cherry tree so we don't have to stay out there holding her leash and following her around for several hours. The only problem is that she tends to get tangled a lot (Under the porch, around the tree, around the bushes, even getting snagged on the porch itself). She likes to go outside and has been use to her leash before we even got her.

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My cat used to git(err escape) outside alot when he was younger and bring back birds to the front step, but now-a-days he only rolls around on the cement when he gits out..

Then again when your a 16 year old,1 eyed cat, hunting my be out of the picture..

There was a lady walking a bobcat on a leash once. And I ain't jokin either.

Good ol' Virginia.

cats on leashes?

its a stupid idea.

great if you're stupid, or you have a stupid cat I guess.

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That's called animal cruelty. Cats are not dogs. Hence the difference in names.

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Live on, Adam.

Yes.

Cats on leashes is a good idea. It's much harder to catch a loose cat than a loose dog... unless the cat's retarded.

Dogs should run free... free and nekked... to sniff each other's butts... and pee in your bushes, and crap on your lawn... and bite the mailman.

It's all in good fun.

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We tried putting our cat on a leash when she was very young. We walked her to the front yard and a car went by -- she is extremely skidish, and she jumped straight up into the air but the leash pulled her down. After that she didn't like the leash OR the collar. Her brother keeps chewing it off for her. Yeah, the leash idea works sometimes, but our cats hate it.

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I guess they need muzzles and leg bracers too.

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What's so wrong with leashing a cat? Some of you make it sound like they're strapping a bomb with a perimeter switch to'em.

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its a stupid idea.

cats don't need leashes.

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Cats are roaming creatures. They are very curious, and require play and exploring. Dogs, on the other hand, require attention, and play of a different kind. They require much effort on the owners part. Dogs need to be on a leash outside so that they can run around, back and forth. Cats on the other hand need to be able to explore, and things to that nature. A leash only allows them to be outside... doing nothing but laying down. And of course, cat's are smart enough to come back home when they're hungry. Dogs have this inevitable weekness called 'stupidity' and just lay down and DIE when they're hungry.

JediKirby

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Well kirbster, I don't think you're talking about my cat. I'm serius, it's so fat....... it just sits there all day. It barely moves. So Cat+wagon = <3

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Some of you really don't get the point. Obviously your not going to walk an outdoor cat on a leash. Leashing is for cats that are not allowed outside because they will run away. Whats more cruel walking it on a leash or never letting the cat outside.


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I took in a stray from my folks place, and at the time I lived in an apartment. I was afraid that if I let the cat out, she would run away, or get stolen, or get run over. So I bought her a leash and took her walking every evening. It helped her to not go stir-crazy. She didn't mind it a bit, in fact, she had a lot of fun. Now that I live in a house with a yard, of course I don't use the leash anymore. But it was great (for her) because she wasn't stuck inside 24 hours a day. Towards the end, even the walks didn't help much (which is one big reason I moved from the apartment).

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One big issue I have with people saying leashes are cruel to cats, well I've had alot of cats in my life and alot of them have been run over.

Used to all our cats were free to go outside if they wanted and usually came in at night. Well, since they were so free to explore quite a number of them had gotten run over.

Now we try to keep our cats inside, but some of them don't like being inside and get out sometimes when we open the door to go out/inside. If we had leashes for them (no stores around here have'em) I wouldn't mind walking them. I mean they can explore, but you can make sure they don't get run over.

So yeah, I find just letting your cat out where it can go anywhere is more cruel unless it's well trained.

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Or it's not stupid. I'm sorry you lost your cat, but most cats are smart enough to not be ran over. I've never trained a single cat in my life, and all 6 of them I've ever owned have never gotten ran over. One ran away. Away, being his old home. Cat's are just a BIT smarter than dogs.

There is NO such thing as an 'Inside' cat. Nor is there an 'Inside' dog. Keeping a pet inside at all times is completelly unhealthy. I'm sure an animal is going to live longer if they're allowed to go outside, and explore. Allowed, not forced, or rationed. Both my animals have the freedom to go outside. My dog, however, has a nice big fenced in area. The cat can go wherever she wants, and she does. I know that if I kept them inside for a long period of time, they'd go insane.

Now, all of this is considering you've got a yard. If you live in the city, you have inside cats. It's horrible and cruel, but that's the only way to keep them. Street-dogs and cats are sad and a pathetic example of human's attempt to own animals in the city.

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Live on, Adam.

That's funny, I've ran over six cats in the past year from them darting out directly in front of my car, the amount of dogs I've ran over is zero, and I've driven in plenty of places with roaming dogs before. I'm not going to even begin arguing the intelligences of both creatures, I dislike both, but I'll say that dogs aren’t as dumb as you think.

As for leash laws, more children are attacked by stray cats than roaming dogs.

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except what is a cat going to do to you, unless they're diseased?


They can bite and claw you, but neither one hurts that much.


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Oh yeah, I suppose cats can't do anything. It's not like their claws contain bacteria from scratching through their own feces, nor are the mouths about as dirty as a humans. Nope, it's just fine and dandy that cats are far more aggressive and see small children as "prey" and are far more likely to attack because it'd all be superficial wounds.

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Here here!

Kirby, a cat will NOT go insane if it stays inside all the time, nor will it not be unhealthy.

Our family has had three cats. All have been indoor cats. The first lived 20+ years, she died of natural causes. The two we have now have also always been inside.

If the cat has always been inside, and only seen the outdoors via windows, how are they going to go insane because they can't go out?

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I had two "indoor" cats; one (Smokey Jo) died at about 15 years, natural death (she didn't eat much the last few years -- weighed 8 pounds, skinnier than anything)
The other (Snowpaws) was killed by a vaccine -- apparently, the vaccine caused skin cancer in cats.
Neither minded their collars much.

I've never seen a cat on a leash, and it's not seen often (if at all), so of course it's going to seem wierd!

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