25 thoughts on “Gus wants in!”

  3. Wherever he lives in Canada, they must be an
    ailurophobic bunch of people to require that cats be controlled – sounds as though it’s Alberta !

    1. Yes, he is. Just think how hard it’d be to see him if the yard and porch were snow-covered!

  7. Cats just don’t seem to be able to comprehend the nature of a leash or tether – at least none of mine ever have, although some seem to get it eventually.

    1. I used to see a cat leashed to a porch railing when I walked to work. After several weeks of not seeing it, I asked the little kid in the yard where the cat was. It had leaped off the porch and strangled itself! 😮

      1. Poor kitty. A friend used to put his 2 Siamese on his decks w leashes and harnesses. Once he found one fairly happily swinging off the side in his harness.

        1. When I was a kid our Golden Labrador Hiram saved our kitten Mackie’s life in that situation. Mackie had got himself tangled in a curtain cord he was playing with and he was hanging from it with the cord around his neck and suffocating. Hiram came and got us,so we were able to rescue Mackie in time.

          Hiram also saved me once, but I’ll save that one for if an appropriate time comes up! 🙂

    2. That reminded me of something I read but yesterday – that chimps don’t seem able to comprehend pointing as a means to show your general point of view. (Say, “look at those flowers [they are beautiful]”.) Chimps only ever use it to show what they want to have, apparently.

      But domesticated animals may get it, such as dogs and (it was claimed) those russian foxes selected for mild manners.

      [As I remember it, I read it in the article about the first (?) fully sequenced cat genome. Apparently we have affected these semi-domesticated animals more than meets the eye.

      Dunno if some cats understand pointing, though. The article sort of petered out on that point.]

      1. Oops. The target for selection of the foxes was probably not “mild manners”. Let’s loosely say they were an attempt at domestication.

  9. when I was growing up, we tied our cats out because we lived at a particularly nasty “t” intersection. Very good for my dad’s garage business, not so much for critters. Everyone thought it was hilarious and was shocked that one could leash cats. My one kitty, a petite Siamese named Tao, managed to run off a friendly but dumb German Shepard on her rope and my other cat, a particular friendly but dumd long hair caught a chipmunk whilst tied up. I insisted we let him eat the ‘munk which he threw up later in the house 🙂 Yep, I cleaned it up.

    1. When we’re out and about, Baihu has no trouble catching (and eating and digesting) suitable prey, without hinderance from the leash — especially lizards and grasshoppers and crickets and that sort of thing. We’ll be walking along, and suddenly he’s lunged or stopped short or the like, and I see him chewing with a leg of something hanging out the corner of his mouth, and a second later even that’s gone and he’s back to walking….

      b&

  11. “they must be an
    ailurophobic bunch of people to require that cats be controlled”

    Really, I don’t want your cat hunting in my yard. Mine is a bird kind of place. It is reasonable of me to not want your fluffy predator cat to invade my space just because you think cats should be allowed to roam.

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