I’ve been slacking off on this blog, but I have been seriously lacking inspiration recently. And that hasn’t changed.
But people still visit the site, so I might as well put that to good use.
My cat Gus is partially an outdoor cat, but I am afraid to just let him run wild lest someone thinks he is a stray and take him away. So I’d like to brand him in some way. The traditional method for branding a domesticated house pet is a collar, but he’s already gone through two collars, and Gus simply will not take to them. He’ll wear it for a day or two, and then sneak away and take it off and bury it or something, and I’ll never see it again.
So I am wondering if it would be just entirely inhumane to make him wear a harness. For a demonstration of a cat harness, click here. Cat harnesses are designed to walk a cat, but I am neither foolish nor sadistic enough to actually try to walk Gus. Rather, I am starting to think that making Gus wear a harness is the only way I can ensure that a collar will stay on.
Does this make me a horrible, evil person?
Wow I was just thinking today: “I think I will treat my children like all the pets in my life. Since I’ve never had a pet and just taken care of the ones other people around me have for a time.” I think that surely you could figure a way to get a collar on the cat that will stay. That harness looks pretty rough. Course if you are going to go there might as well get the ball gag that I’m sure they sell in the deluxe cat domination package . . . you are a sick sick man.
Why not just paint the cat?
Paint will wear off. Okay I didn’t want to do this but here you go . . . clip the corner of one of his ears off … cause that’s what they did to me.
why not get a little sailor suit for him? it’d be totally adorable.
haha, wow. The example of the orange cat in the harness was just sad. If you hate your cat, put him in a harness. Then take a picture of him looking really forlorn, and sell the picture to the highest bidder on ebay..
Otherwise, think about tagging his ear. It may be more painful, but at least he’ll look cooler with an earring than he would with a harness.
Karen, you are just cruel.