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Do your cats come for walks with you, whether or not you want them to ?

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WildRosie · 03/02/2022 21:19

Our latter-day cat did. My sister swears he thought he was a dog. We used to walk our three Cocker spaniels at about the same time every evening and, more often than not, puss would insist on joining us. He was hopeless at staying with us, being either a few yards ahead or several yards behind most of the time. Occasionally he would lose us (being a cat, he would have said we lost him) and we'd have to find him. Without fail, when we were just a minute or two from getting home again, he'd streak ahead to be on the back door before us, miaowing triumphantly in the process (provided we hadn't 'lost' him).

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dementedpixie · 03/02/2022 21:21

Mine like to go for a walk on a Friday night after we put the bins out. We walk round a bit of the estate and back and then they wait on the driveway for dreamies

Faircastle · 03/02/2022 21:27

We have two cats. One of them accompanies us down the road if we go for a walk, and will call out (part Bengal, so loudly) if he thinks he is being left behind. He stops at the corner where we cross the road, and waits there for us to get back.

LaBelleSauvage123 · 03/02/2022 21:29

Yes ours does every time. She is fine until we get to a certain point ( the limit of her territory maybe?) and then gets really agitated but won’t stop following us. One of us often has to pick her up and take her home or back to a point she recognises - her heart is pounding! Once we’ve done this she waits in the hedge or on a wall and then bursts out triumphantly when we come back. Equally sweet and annoying!

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dementedpixie · 03/02/2022 21:31

If I want to go for a proper walk I have to drive away and park somewhere else first or they follow me. A bit annoying sometimes

Beamur · 03/02/2022 21:36

My neighbours cat comes for walks with us. He's pretty street wise. My cats stare out of the windows at us in disgust.

username103842 · 03/02/2022 21:37

My parents started going for walks during lockdown and their cats followed them. Now my dad takes them out for a walk every evening.

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WildRosie · 03/02/2022 21:38

We had an old deciduous plantation behind the family home and I often used to go there to gather firewood. The dogs would usually join me, as would His Nibs. I'd be just helping the dogs over the fence at the bottom of the garden bordering the woods and I'd see him nonchalantly strolling up the garden. He tended to stay a bit closer in the woods as he was more wary of his surroundings - wild animal instinct. As per dog walks though, he had to be first home and would usually come tearing past me back down the garden and climb an apple tree as an encore.

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Easterbunnyiswindowshopping · 03/02/2022 21:40

As a dc i lived in Newcastle. We travelled by car to Plessey Woods with 2 ddogs and 4 dcats in the car!! They all trotted off in a line!! Wish I had photos from back then..

Toddlerteaplease · 03/02/2022 21:41

We had a cat that would do this. And my parents current boy will occasionally do it. My toe sent allowed out of the garden. So I do t know about them!

Undertheoldlindentree · 03/02/2022 21:42

Yes! Follows the DC confidently to a certain point in the road, but then gets more nervous and looks around for other cats. Still feels compelled to follow for another 200 yards or so. Then sits forlornly until we carry her back. Definitely seems a territory thing!

ChaToilLeam · 03/02/2022 21:44

One of my old kitties used to try to follow me to work and had to be taken home and put back in the house, because the bus stop is on a busy road! Both mogs used to meet me at the street corner on my way home and escort me back though, which was super sweet and lovely.

HerRoyalNotness · 03/02/2022 21:47

Our cat walks my oldest up the bus in the early morning and will walk with us to the mailbox and back. I’ve caught her stopping at another door up there meowing to be let in, little brat.

Beecham · 03/02/2022 21:47

Yes, ours trots along giving little miows. His tail also gets massive. Once we reach a certain point, we have to loop back with him, deposit him indoors with some dreamies, then sneak back out without him!

Zazdar · 03/02/2022 21:50

Not with me but with my husband. In fact, if my husband was outside, our cat would be with him whatever he was doing.

Do your cats come for walks with you, whether or not you want them to ?
Twattergy · 03/02/2022 21:51

Yes our little girl followed my son to school this week (5 mins down our road) she also meows loudly at us down the road as we walk off. She once also followed us up into the woodland path off our road which surprised me as its pretty wild. We had to chase her back as she really didn't seem to want to stop following us!

Mabelface · 03/02/2022 21:51

Mine escorts me halfway through the churchyard at the back of my house, then waits for me there. Upon seeing me, he runs up meowing then throws himself at my feet before walking me home.

Moonface123 · 03/02/2022 21:52

My sisters cat was very bold, he would follow her to bus stop and even jump on, she would have to get off with him and take him back home. He also followed her around the local fields and woods with her dogs, he was absolutely fearless of anything.

Ringsender2 · 03/02/2022 22:56

L.O.V.E this thread!! It's amazing.

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WildRosie · 03/02/2022 23:01

As I recall, there wasn't much you could do in the old homestead without said cat or at least one spaniel being present. They were never far away, as Mum used to say.

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PamelaDoov · 03/02/2022 23:05

When I was a kid I had the best cat ever. We would go for family walks over Cannock Chase and he would trot along side us like a little dog, for the whole time we were out.

TeaandHobnobs · 03/02/2022 23:10

My part-Burmese cat did this - she’d follow you halfway to the shop, stop at a certain point and wait for you to come back

Middleagedfemaleangst · 03/02/2022 23:11

Yes mine do. If I don’t want him to follow I have to stride off fast and don’t look back. If I make eye contact he follows me. I went too far once as I thought he’d come all the way to brownies pick up with me and he went in a garden and wouldn’t come out, I got DD from brownies and then coaxed him out on the way back, and he followed me home very angrily miaowing at how foolish I’d been to take him too far.

DramaAlpaca · 03/02/2022 23:13

One of our childhood cats did this. We lived rurally and DM would take us for country walks, always accompanied by our huge black and white cat.

Ilovecharliecat · 03/02/2022 23:21

@Easterbunnyiswindowshopping

As a dc i lived in Newcastle. We travelled by car to Plessey Woods with 2 ddogs and 4 dcats in the car!! They all trotted off in a line!! Wish I had photos from back then..
this sounds so cute
Honeyroar · 03/02/2022 23:23

My male cat frequently follows me when I walk the dogs. Occasionally the female cat comes too. But he/they only go about 1/3 of a mile and then sit down in the middle of the lane and howl at me to go back! There’s a car park for walkers nearby and I swear someone will take this howling cat home with them one day because they think he’s been abandoned! So I have a good look around for the cat before I set off with the dogs and try to shut it in the house!

We used to have a pet sheep when I was a teenager. She’d been an orphan lamb. She used to come in dog walks too, but was bloody heavy to lift over stiles and a real dawdwler!