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From: lat@stcvax.UUCP (Larry Tepper)
Newsgroups: net.pets
Subject: Re: Cats on leashes
Message-ID: <270@stcvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-May-84 13:50:22 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 17 13:50:22 1984
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Are you talking about walking your cat on a leash, or tying up
the cat on a leash attached to a line so it will be confined to
your back yard?  I live in an apartment building and have a
neighbor who walks her cat in the building's courtyard on a leash.

I would never recommend the latter method, though.  A friend of
mine tried this once and returned from work one day to find that
her cat had strangled to death.  I don't know the details and given
her state of mind that day wasn't going to ask.  I could certainly
see the cat getting tangled trying to jump down after climbing a tree.
Perhaps a chest harness like those that seeing-eye dogs use could
prevent this.  I don't think many cats would enjoy wearing such
a contraption.
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