Cat following me everywhere!

[BulstrodeTheApatosaurus]

Hi Folks,
We have a lovely cat (male, stripey rescue tabby) who I love dearly, but who is a bit of a ... character.
He like to follow me and also the children when we attempt to leave the house. He has always done this and over the past couple of months he has taken to following us on the 15 minute walk to school and occasionally back. Last week when school was out he followed us to the childminders. Very sweet and the kids are delighted... but I work. So I have to drop the kids off and then get on the bus to work, I don't have to time to ferry the cat back to his home. Sometimes he makes it home OK, sometimes we get a call in evening to say he is at someone's house.
Chasing him does not work.
Shouting only attracts amused onlookers.
Stamping your foot does not work.
I bought a water pistol but the kids have taken it.
I cannot shut him in the house or he will be in there all day and pee in it.
How do I make him stop?

My cat follows me everywhere and waits for me. He once waited outside the pub, much to the amusment of the rest of the pub. We had to get the taxi driver to drop him off at home before we headed to the nightclub.

I have no idea how to stop him, sorry. I'm just glad to see I am not the only one with a crazy cat. We certainly get some odd looks when we are out walking two dogs and a cat

He waits outside work for me sometimes too, but I only work around the corner so I am not that concerned about that.

Will he not use a litter tray to pee in?

Have you got a back door, or a window at the back of the house you could put a cat flap in? Then you could throw him back in the front door as you go out knowing he can get out of the house once you're gone?

I tried that with my cat stinky. Problem is cats are v agile and v quick. By the time I managed to lock the front door he had gone over the wall and around the corner and was winding around my ankles again

Our old cat used to be like this. We used to have to leave her in the house then pelt it through the front door. If she got throught the catflap at the back then round the front before you had disappeared she would run after you. Nightmare. She used to follow you then sit under a car and wait for you to walk home. I don't have a solution I'm afraid, just empathy.

my cat arrived in the middle of assembly several times, the headmaster would sternly ask me to 'please take your cat home again'

When she got a bit older she grew out of it and didn't follow us at all.

Hopefully your cat will find more interesting things to do outside (not that I'm suggesting you're not interesting) and will soon stop following you.

Or how about not feeding him until just before you leave in the morning, so he's more interested in his breakfast than following you?
(Or give him half his breakfast when you get up and then the other half just before you leave if delaying entire breakfast is too mean!)

Jeffrey did this to us as we used to leave for work. Our road is very quiet but 5 minutes up the road is a very busy dual carriageway.

The only thing we could do was ignore, ignore, ignore.

It took weeks but as soon as he realised he wasn't getting any attention, he got bored of following us.

He did provide plenty of amusement for the neighbourhood though. He would run in front of us, then throw himself down on the floor and roll around with his tummy up. We would walk past ignoring him and ing.
He would sit up, watch us walk away, chase after us and [repeat until fade]