Pickles by Brian Crane for June 14, 2020

And for Muffin’s next trick…

Neat trick Muffy. How long are you going to sit behind Opal before letting her know you’re there.

Oh Good Grief, stupid cat-eating tree!

Our cat demands to go out. We demand the leash. Result: She goes out, but not so often. On a leash. But if we leave her tied for as long as two minutes, she simply wraps it around something and backs out of it. Muffin seems to have gotten the technique down (up?) pat.

Cats know what they don’t like.

My first cat was lash trained and it was not a problem. It was a problem for both of us, so decided he was thereafter an indoor cat.Indoor cats are healthier and live longer. If you are in an apartment, you might think about a different type of pet

Had our back screen door propped open so our cat could come and go as she pleased. One evening, we drove in and cat was waiting near the garage. Went around apartment building with us and up the stairs to outside front door. Could hardly wait for us to open it and bounded up to the front door. Opened it and she charged over to kitchen door and meowed pitifully. Opened it and she got to her box in a hurry. Now, she could very well have avoided all this by going in the back door earlier…

So much for a cat on a leash.

I had a friend who would walk his pet goat on a leash…….. usually to the pub.

So you like cats Opal :-)

Meow!

While riding around Pine Lake the other day, I came upon and elderly lady walking her pet miniture horse on a lead rope. You just never know what your going to wee when out and about.

That’s about how I envision “cat-on-a-leash” going!

My youngest daughter is thinking about getting a “Cat Stroller.”

LOL! I had a cat that would walk on a leash and retrieve a little ball I made with aluminum foil.

I adopted a Komodo Dragon for a housepet. He’s not much of a cuddler, but I have him answer the door when the jehovah’s witness show up. They seldom return.

Any cat of mine I hooked up would throw itself onto the sidewalk and not budge!

Looks like Muffin clipped the leash to Earl, revealing Earl’s hiding spot.

Muffin put the leash on one of Charlie Brown’s kites.

Wow – Who coulda’ seen THAT.?

My cats both walk on a leash with no problem. The trick is to start them as a kitten and get them used to it early. They do occasionally back their way out of the harness if it isn’t adjusted correctly, but I’ve never had any cat of mine figure out how to detach the harness from the leash.

Oh – that so happened to me! Our cat went under our RV and up into the engine compartment. I’m under the RV tugging on her leash to her out, and she walks up from behind and looks at me like, “What’re ya doin’, buddy?”

I think she could have stopped the cat before it got that far up the tree

I saw acquaintance with her cat on a leash. She explained she had read, and was concerned, about the environmental impact of domestic cats.

I read that cats kill a billion birds a year. I always kept mine indoors. The lack of a ceiling can really freak out a housecat who finds itself outdoors.

Over my lifetime I had indoor cats, outdoor cats, and indoor/outdoor cats. I’ve had a couple of ‘em that thought they were dogs, including one indoor/outdoor character who would go for walks ( without a leash ) with me and the two St. Bernards.

I lived across the road from National Forest Service land in Arizona, at the time, so my two dogs and the cat had plenty of room to run and exercise. When the cat got tired of hiking, he’d park himself under a shady bush and wait for us to come back, then walk home with us.

One weekend we had to “babysit” my kid’s school class rabbit. Tried to take it for a walk on a leash. It just hid under every bush in site.

I had an indoor/outdoor cat that was car-wise. She’d look both ways and wait before crossing the road. Tragically, she was killed when my parents were cat-sitting — she met up with my father’s dog outside (who was perfectly civil inside) and the dog killed her. I still worry more about traffic than I do other animals.