Walkies

[West Ender]

Originally Posted by [email protected]

Dogs are for people whom need the love and devotion a dog gives.
Cats are for people who have been there, done that , got the Tshirt and prefer a co-existence of equals who respect each other.

I've had both cats and dogs for most of my life. Does that mean I have a split personality?

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by katex

Yeh, but how will they ever learn to climb trees, fend off the dogs, mark their own territory, seek out another cat at night for procrastination, etc. ? Sorry Margaret, don't agree .... same as keeping a child on a lead to me .. gotta let them have space. Cats are much more intelligent than canines, that is why we say they have nine lives .. 'cause they know how to avoid difficult situations unlike most dogs ..

Katex, they do learn those things, but in places where it would not be safe to have them free..... a lead is the answer...well, if you can train them to one. I have to say that I never managed it with my persians and lived in fear of them getting out of the house because they were a right senseless pair.
They were both brought up with dogs so they weren't so much of a problem.....they were both neutered so procreation really wasn't their 'bag'.
They were really pampered lap cats......now Pasha, our moggy is a different thing altogether....she was a stray so she has all the sense you would associate with cats......I don't worry so much about her.
She's neutered too....so no kittens......which I think is the way to go.

The Pedigree cats......I think they have had some of their sense bred out of them. Mine certainly had.

so I think we will have to agree to disagree on this one Katex

[SPUGGIE J]

A friend of mine used to walk his Polecat on a leash around the Ferry much to the ammusment of others. Besides at least the animal is getting exercise and not causing trouble.

[panther]

i only have a rabbit, and now you can buy leads for them....you wouldnt catch me walking a cat!!, tongue.gif

[Margaret Pilkington]

A cat leash would probably fit a rabbit.....if you really wanted to go that way.

[Ianto.W.]

Originally Posted by shillelagh

When we had a cat and dog they used to sit at the side of the road and watch for the traffic when it was clear they'd cross. Sometimes theyd cross together and sometimes not.

I knew a woman in Gt Harwood, who had a very large tom cat 'without wedding tackle', she told me the cat was toilet trained as regards no 2, but she could not stop it marking it's territory.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Some tom cats will continue to 'mark their territory' despite being neutered....fortunately mine didn't.

[Ianto.W.]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Some tom cats will continue to 'mark their territory' despite being neutered....fortunately mine didn't.

This cat, and I jest not walked on two legs sometimes down Sawley Drive, and the lady that owned it showed me the cat using the toilet.

[Margaret Pilkington]

I had a huge Maine Coon cat until February this year when he sadly died.
People who came to my house thought he was a lynx or a wild cat.....he really was huge. A rescued cat, and he was not very friendly until the last few months of his life. He always seemed a bit aloof and suspicious of people, so I don't know if he was ill treated......but he was treated like a king when he came to live with us. I still miss him, and sometimes I think I have seen him lying by the side of our bed....but it is just my imagination.