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wow he is beautiful,My Dante on his walk. My little girl gets in her harness, but then just lays down outside on the leash. No walking involved with her.
Yes he is so beautiful and he looks so stylin in the black and white harness!! I have a cat Boris that will grab his leash and toss the buckling end up in the air with his mouth-tick tick tick=when he wants to go outside for a walk. Once he even shot under a bush and caught a mouse! YUK!! Took it away from him then but he was so pleased with himself.
wow he is beautiful,
looks like a little black pantherThank You! He is my momma's boy.
It varies immensely. Pretzel had no trouble with a standard cat harness (made of the stuff leashes are made of), until the time I had to wait with her in a desert rest stop in Idaho, with a woman who insisted on chatting politely even though she could see that it stressed the cat out. Pretzel managed to slip the harness and went into hiding until night, when she came out to hunt, secure in her invisibility, and I heard her collar bell ringing. Jasmine has a Hyendry walking jacket, which she can't slip. She gets very excited when I bring it out, as it means we're going outdoors, but then she lies down and presents her belly because she thinks it makes her look adorable (it does), which makes it hard to put the harness on. Then when we get back inside, she wants the harness off, "Meow/now!," but won't hold still long enough for me to remove it. :lol3:I live in England where it is very rare for people to use harnesses on cats, but as i have 2 indoor kittens i would defintely like to try with them.
We have recently bought a leash and tried it with our two, just to put it on them to get used to. My partner after just one try doesn't want to continue as he thinks it's stressing them out, after one was very fidgety and the other when it was on him ran under the sofa to hide.
I want to try again to expose them and get them familiar with it, presumably it takes a while to train them end to end and most cats don't take to it straight away?
Try leaving the harness next to their food bowls for a week or two and let them play with it and get used to it. Then you can put it on them for short sessions, five minutes and up. Give them treats and praise them when they have the harnesses on.Two of mine took right to it. My other two rolled onto their side with the harness like I put a straight jacket on them. I had to but harness on just in the house for about a half hour or so for days to get them used to it. I started with just the nylon harness at first, but two of my cats do not fit in cat harnesses. They are all willing to get in their harnesses now and go on the leash. My girl will not actually walk she just sniffs and then lays down. My oldest cat is a very sweet boy and is certified to go to the nursing home my dad is at so he does very well on the leash. It takes time and some like my girl just will not take to it.