Walking the cat on a leash is catching on. Pet shops offer a wide selection of cat harnesses, collars and other cat-walking accessories. Shops would sell anything as long as there is demand. If spouse walking becomes fashionable, I’m certain they would sell tastefully designed collars and leads/leashes for the purpose. So, the availability of the gear is no justification for the act.
Tim Walker quotes the RSPCA on The Guardian news website,
“A sense of control is very important to cats, and being walked on a collar or harness prevents them having control. It may be more difficult for them to move away or hide from anything which might scare or worry them.”
The other day I asked a cat-walker why she did it.
“It’s a lot better for the environment,” she replied. “Cats kill other creatures. But our cats are fed well. They don’t need to kill to eat.”
She lets them out in her back garden though, she added.
Hmmm… I am not convinced. Cats are essentially wild creatures. They have an independent mind and, unlike dogs, don’t dote on their owners. They don’t fetch, they don’t usually respond to verbal commands, they do what they like. The expression ‘free spirit’ must have originated from observing the behaviour of a cat. They might snuggle up to you and purr. However, I’m sure they don’t do it out of affection. They are self-centred in every sense of the word.
My neighbour encapsulates it well.
“I love Sunny,” he says referring to his tabby cat. “But I know if I shrink to his size, he would kill me.”
That is the fundamental nature of a cat. Free spirited, independent and wild – like birds. Can it be right to cage a bird or walk a cat on a leash?
How would I feel if you tied my hands to prevent me from killing you softly on FB?
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