Walking a paranoid cat on a harness can only lead to disaster…
No, no,” I stressed to my slightly annoyed catsitting client on the phone. “I’m certainly not saying Edcase is a nasty cat. I’m just saying he can be a bit feisty at times (read ‘violently psychotic’) and trying to take him for a walk might prove… problematic.”
My client wouldn’t be swayed, however. She often took Edcase for a walk on his harness, she told me, and he was fine about it. She also pointed out that he was never “feisty” with anyone else.
“OK,” I conceded, wondering how Edcase came about his name if he really was all sweetness and light, “I’ll definitely give it another try. It’s just last time he gave me a bit of a nip (viciously imprinted his dental records on my forearm) but if you say he’s fine now…”
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