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Dog in a cat suit
Recently, I've been taking walks with Smudge around my neighborhood.
She follows me all over the place, without a leash. Of course, being a cat, she has to take little side trips into people's yards, to check out their gardens and driveways. I'll just keep walking. All of a sudden I hear this "Meow!" which means that she can't see me anymore. (At least, I think that's what it means - I think she's trying to find out where I went.) So I call to her, and she'll come trotting around a corner and down the sidewalk toward me. It's so cute. The neighbors love it. I get lots of comments and jokes from people. Yesterday I walked by this couple who were walking with their baby in a stroller, and they were very amused by the fact that I was out "walking the cat". We were actually standing in front of their house, and they had a calico who was sitting in their walkway, hiding around the corner behind some bushes, and peering out cautiously at Smudge. Then she came out and started inching slowing toward Smudge, who registered her displeasure by issuing a low growl. The calico came closer and the two had a little face-off. We all stood and watched. Finally, the tension became a little too tight, so I said, "OK, enough!", swooped up Smudge, and carried her away from the other cat. Then a little later, I saw the couple with the baby on the other side of the street, and their cat was trotting along behind them! I guess it must have been "walk your cat" day. Joyce |
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Joyce, I was quite surprised the first time a cat wanted to walk with me,
too, but since then I've learned that they almost all will do it. This discovery happened in the desert in Arizona, where I eight felines often accompanied me on my walks. It was so special, being trailed by a single file line of cats stretching back 10-15 feet behind me. Later, after I moved to the Ozarks with the three remaining cats (January 1998), it had been an established routine for years, and so we continued these walks. Those three cats are all at the RB now, but their successors went everywhere with me on the farm. Usually they would all come along on the walks, but when Abelard arrived, he was too small at first to keep up with us, so Baby Eyes started staying home with him until he got bigger. Baby Eyes continued sitting with Billy and Lily until the got big enough to go on walks. That didn't take long at all. Beatrice was ready to walk with us after the first few weeks. It was always an adventure walking with the cats. And yes, whenever anyone got too far off from the group to have visual contact, they would cry and wait for me to answer, then come running to rejoin us. I only wish we could still walk outside together. I don't dare take them leashless on the streets of town. |
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Pat wrote:
Joyce, I was quite surprised the first time a cat wanted to walk with me, too, but since then I've learned that they almost all will do it. This discovery happened in the desert in Arizona, where I eight felines often accompanied me on my walks. It was so special, being trailed by a single file line of cats stretching back 10-15 feet behind me. What a wonderful image! It was always an adventure walking with the cats. And yes, whenever anyone got too far off from the group to have visual contact, they would cry and wait for me to answer, then come running to rejoin us. That's interesting. I was surprised when Smudge did that - I expected her to just wander in and out, and appear on the sidewalk from time to time to trot alongside me for a while before taking another side trip. Joyce |
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When I was a kid, we lived in Metchosin, which is a pretty rural area
outside of Victoria BC. We had a cat, a big black fluffy boy named Nicky. About a 1km walk from the house was a park with a trail through the forest to a lagoon. There were waterfalls, bridges over streams, etc. It was really nice. Often we would go for a walk there as a family, it would take about 2 hours to complete the circuit. Nicky would quite often follow along the whole time, even through the forest. He would trot along behind us and if he fell too far behind, we would wait and call and he would catch up. The only thing was, we had to make sure not to leave the walk too late in the day or the racoons would come out and we didn't want Nicky to encounter any. -- Britta Purring is an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album wrote: Recently, I've been taking walks with Smudge around my neighborhood. She follows me all over the place, without a leash. Of course, being a cat, she has to take little side trips into people's yards, to check out their gardens and driveways. I'll just keep walking. All of a sudden I hear this "Meow!" which means that she can't see me anymore. (At least, I think that's what it means - I think she's trying to find out where I went.) So I call to her, and she'll come trotting around a corner and down the sidewalk toward me. It's so cute. The neighbors love it. I get lots of comments and jokes from people. Yesterday I walked by this couple who were walking with their baby in a stroller, and they were very amused by the fact that I was out "walking the cat". We were actually standing in front of their house, and they had a calico who was sitting in their walkway, hiding around the corner behind some bushes, and peering out cautiously at Smudge. Then she came out and started inching slowing toward Smudge, who registered her displeasure by issuing a low growl. The calico came closer and the two had a little face-off. We all stood and watched. Finally, the tension became a little too tight, so I said, "OK, enough!", swooped up Smudge, and carried her away from the other cat. Then a little later, I saw the couple with the baby on the other side of the street, and their cat was trotting along behind them! I guess it must have been "walk your cat" day. Joyce |
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