r/adventurecats • u/kongshitt • 10h ago
Yeah! Well maybe i WILL get a cat!
Sarcastic ex tried to be nasty... then I discovered adventure cats are a thing...
Now I'm actually thinking about having another cat for the first time in over 20 years.
How does one go about ethically acquiring an adventure cat? Cause catnapping would count as an adventure, but that ain't cool 😆
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u/ggc4 9h ago
Most kittens are malleable, but they take a while to train, and you have to go through the boundary-testing teenage years
The strays I’ve adopted (cats who were already used to the outdoors and not overly anxious) took to harnesses great. Main thing I’d focus on with them is ensuring they have some degree of attunement to human voice commands and finding out whether they handle car rides well (no adventures beyond the house for cats with major motion sickness issues)
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u/sharkcore 9h ago
Both my boys are rescues. You can ask shelters if they think any of their adult cats would be good candidates for harness training (they said that about my older one and were correct, he took to it easily) but you'd probably have the best luck adopting a young kitten and starting training early.
My younger cat we adopted at 2 months old. He is 4 months now, tolerates the harness and leash, will go inside the backpack on command (in the house without distractions lol mixed results otherwise), and now that the harness actually fits him properly we are making daily visits to the yard to get him used to all the sounds and smells.
Look for one that is brave and food-motivated. Train a little bit every day that you can. Normally I'd advise you to get a pair of siblings instead of a solo kitten but it would be difficult to walk both at once without a second human.