Taking Your Cat For a Walk

Cats, being the independent creatures they are, Generally (see below) do not like being taken for walks on a collar and lead like dogs. Felines are more solitary animals, and prefer to do their own thing! Usually resisting all attempts to train them to take long walks. Some cats will follow their owners for a short time, often along a familiar route and normally not wearing a collar and lead, but they will almost certainly give up after a short time, to tread their chosen territory instead.

A dog however, is a pack animal and loves nothing better than to be taken for a walk by its owner, who it thinks is the “pack leader”. To your cat you will always be its “mother”, and when it follows you for short distances it is reverting back to the days when it was a kitten and followed its mother on short trips from the nest.