Herding cats

Our project for the weekend was supposed to be cleaning house…but instead we decided to go to PetsMart. We met a nice man there who happened to be walking a cat on a leash. So guess what our weekend project became…you got it — trying to teach Sinatra the siamese kitten to walk on a leash.

The first step was getting the harness on, which, as you can see, makes the little guy look like a DEA secret agent or something. Then you simply latch on the leash, and voila! We got about as far as the deck with him before he started sitting down, refusing to walk where we wanted him to. That didn’t deter Chelsea, though…we took him down the block, one small step at a time.

So we didn’t really get the house cleaned this weekend, but we did learn an important lesson about the differences between dogs and cats. Some creatures are just not meant to wear leashes!