This new cat is dressed for adventure. He either has his phone with him or is wearing a tracker. Mr. Cat @carverofchoice , do your cats have trackers?
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New cat must be on a mapping mission, it went across the back yard to the West and climbed over the fence.
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Maybe the harness did not get removed after the Cat-Walk.
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I also want to share part 2 of the above video. They did pick up the cat because dragging would take too long for them to teach their home.
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I put harnesses on my cats when I take them for walks or hiking.
They have to kind of be trained with it. The way I would train my cats is to start out by walking them On a sidewalk that has a fence or a wall on one side. They like to have something on one side when they are First learning to walk with a leash. They don’t like big open areas.
I also used to take them to the Church a block from our house and walk them around that close to the building.
Also, when they first start out you have to keep the leash short and pull up slightly to keep them on their feet. Then take it really slow because they will do a lot of stop and go. Walking a cat often has a lot of stop and go instead of a steady Pace like with a dog. But a lot of them you can train to do a pretty steady Pace most of the time.
Once we got some of our cats used to walking around the neighborhood on a leash, we started taking some of them hiking in the mountains to waterfalls and stuff. They actually really enjoyed it. And they did good walking and hiking and mostly good staying on the trail. Just have to keep an eye out for any hiking dogs and hurry and pick up the cat before they get too close.
Definitely got a lot of funny reactions when people saw us walking our cat or hiking with the cat. Makes for some really cool pictures and videos though.
As for putting a tracker on them, not usually. I have put some on some cats in certain circumstances though. I’m too cheap to buy one that uses LTE subscriptions. The Amazon sidewalk trackers are limited to houses that have Alexa devices sharing the sidewalk feature, so that’ll usually bother with that cuz it’s too limited. I have used trackers that work on Apple and Google’s Bluetooth tracking systems, but both of those use rolling codes, so it’s annoying to set up a system to keep a tracking history. They are really only useful for finding where something is currently at this exact moment. And my cats live to visit other people and I’m afraid they’d just steal the $20-$30 tracking tag… And sometimes my cats take off and lose their collar all by themselves, so they’d be just as likely to leave it on someone’s property even if someone doesn’t steal it.
I would kind of like to clip on a tiny camera that dies time lapses of their adventures though.