r/adventurecats

Amanda was found in my wood shed at roughly 3 weeks old. Took her in and bottle fed her, sense shes been bottle fed she goes on many adventures. Learning to kayak with brother Dazzle now

Do they make life jackets this small? A pool noodle?

Messaged their social media account and they sent me all the pictures and videos they got so going to dump some of those here lol

I forgot to take pictures (too busy yapping to everyone who came up to meet her) so these are taken of the bars Instagram lol

This is not my cat. I found this picture on the internet.

Took Laffen and Ander, our two 11 months old NFO brothers on a little outing this evening. Fascinating to see the extend of the instinct to hunt even when they never learned it from their mom since they where born and raised indoors. No fly is safe when these guys are around!

Both are in harness but it is covered in fur in the pictures and Laffen is actually so big that he needs a dog harness now. We've been training them on a leash since we got them and both are very comfortable wearing it. Ander is maybe a bit more forward and Laffen is more the Ferdinand type who likes to lay down and smell the flowers (until there is a fly off coarse)

We're thinking of purchasing backpacks for them and go hiking (or smelling the flowers) but we'll see how it goes (and if we find big enough backpacks. Laffen is BIG).

Don't you love it when your companion loves the same things as you? We picked out the fullest forest by us and took him on a birthday hike. He wanted to walk and just soak in the sounds of the forest more than he has in a while. No better way to spend his 6th birthday.

We are thinking about camping together for my own birthday, but it will be hotter. Looks like it'll be the mountains for us, because we both need to stay cool.

Please wish him a happy one! He's a very good boy and deserves all the good wishes.

She did so well! We're practicing for camping!

Just Moritz growling. Not sure if this is another dog or a cat. Its always the same exact spot. A few steps further and everything is back to normal :-D

But actually, that post is more like an excuse to ask another question:

We, every so often, have people on r/adventurecats who deal with very fearful cats, especially if they are new outside and were indoor for a long time. Reported symptoms range from 'panting' to 'shaking' and it is distressing for the humans too. These people have very little guidance as no one shares these non-happy circumstances.

I recently filmed an extreeemely stressful situation on a very loud street near a train-overpass (and the train passed twice!) where I had to deal with Moritz stress, sensory overload and the resulting overwhelming fear in a productive way including recovery from it. It would probably make a good educational video how much a random cat can handle, how to judge when it is enough, what signs of relaxation to look for and which strategies are there for the human in that situation etc.

However, I also know that displaying a cat in such distress will absolutely be punished by cat-reddit that will likely completely overwhelm any productive conversation in such a post.

I will therefore leave a preview scene here of the total escalation that happened when the second train passed. If that already leads to escalating comments, I wont bother with an educational voice-over for the whole situation, because cat-reddit just sucks sometimes.

>!"And people who put their cats in such situations suck too".!<
>!Yeah yeah, move on, please... !<

Long story short, I have a very active adventure cat called Lychee, and I walk him twice a day (his demands). The only problem I have is that he hates the neighborhood cat who is half outdoor and half indoor. Sometimes he sits in front of his house for a long time and if they see each other they hiss at each other pretty angrily. I think they are into a turf war and it’s been months like this. Luckily I can control Lychee for most of the time. Is there any way to make them less aggressive toward each other?

My youngest is a big climber, but I try not to let him get to places I won’t be able to get him down from. He’s a strong climber, but less confident in descending, unless there’s an easy way down. Also, he rarely wants to go back home, so there’s always the risk he’ll just want to stay up there lol.

How do you deal? Don’t allow climbing at all, or just within reachable height? Should I just buy a portable stepladder? 🤣

You ever see a video with a cat on someone’s backpack and wonder, how did the cat get out of the backpack? How is the cat going to get back in the backpack? Videos almost never show those 2 things.