Training Your Cat to Walk on Lead
May 27th 2009 19:17
Believe it or not you can train your cat to walk on a leash. It takes time, effort, and patience, but it is possible. I never thought about it until my days volunteering and a gentleman spent weekend after weekend walking up and down the cat isles socializing his cat and leash training it. Many months later, after he was successful, he brought in a kitten and was trying again with the kitten.
He was successful each time, but only because he had been working with the cats at home before he began bringing them into the store. If you throw the cat in a harness and go straight to a place with many distractions, you're bound to fail, but if you spend your time carefully training your cat, you should have no problems walking her up and down the isles at the pet store...
Just remember that no matter how well leash trained your cat is, there are going to be dogs of all sizes at the pet store, so you'll have to watch out for any mistakes and potential mishaps, even in the cat isles.
He was successful each time, but only because he had been working with the cats at home before he began bringing them into the store. If you throw the cat in a harness and go straight to a place with many distractions, you're bound to fail, but if you spend your time carefully training your cat, you should have no problems walking her up and down the isles at the pet store...
Just remember that no matter how well leash trained your cat is, there are going to be dogs of all sizes at the pet store, so you'll have to watch out for any mistakes and potential mishaps, even in the cat isles.
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