This is why I have a harness and one of those extending leashes. I pretty much let him go where he wants on hour-long walks; the leash is just to keep him from genociding the local fauna or running into traffic. It also reduces his urge to sprint outside the moment a door opens.
Cats are an invasive species and kill over 15 billion birds and small mammals per year. There’s nothing ‘natural’ about that.
Your cats freedom means the ecological destruction of your surroundings. Choose wisely.
Places exist outside of the USA, just fyi.
The 15 billion kills is a global statistic, just fyi.
This is why I have a harness and one of those extending leashes. I pretty much let him go where he wants on hour-long walks; the leash is just to keep him from genociding the local fauna or running into traffic. It also reduces his urge to sprint outside the moment a door opens.
Funny trying to use a harness with my monster leads to him really trying to get out of the door.
Then I guess your walks aren’t long and satisfying enough for your cat.
You can tell when it’s time to end the walk. They start laying down and don’t protest when you pick them up to carry them back to the car.
‘Invasive’
It’s been five hundred years. Pretty sure this is a pointless distinction by now
That’s not how invasive species work. 500 years is nothing on the evolutionary time scale.
Also, cats have been widespread for about 2000 years in the old world, not 500.
it doesn’t matter how long they’ve been somewhere. if they were brought by humans, they’re invasive