Sure. And it can work. I can see why the video is funny, but these people went about it in exactly the wrong way--once you start dragging the cat, I can't imagine having much success convincing it that the leash is a *good* thing.
The one cat I taught to walk on a leash was started young, and on the first few encounters with the harness (which is the real problem), I put it on him and left him alone for a while. Take it off, repeat the next day. After a few times, the cat decides that the harness has not, in fact, paralyzed his legs.
OK, some of them do. The other cat I had at the time let me know that she was never going to cooperate with that harness, and she didn't really want to go outside *anyway*...
My indoor cats quite liked the "being outside" part of being on a leash. Part of why we gave up on the project, actually, was that it brought their attention to the excitement that is the great outdoors, and they started assiduously trying to escape whenever we'd open a door.
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Date: 2010-03-21 01:26 pm (UTC)The one cat I taught to walk on a leash was started young, and on the first few encounters with the harness (which is the real problem), I put it on him and left him alone for a while. Take it off, repeat the next day. After a few times, the cat decides that the harness has not, in fact, paralyzed his legs.
OK, some of them do. The other cat I had at the time let me know that she was never going to cooperate with that harness, and she didn't really want to go outside *anyway*...
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Date: 2010-03-21 05:55 pm (UTC)