You inspired me almost a year ago to start training my cat when she was only 3 months old. First, I fed her wet food from a dish on my shoulder (only place to reach it). She actively seeks out my shoulder for a perch now! Second, I trained her on (your) escape proof leash. For the last 4 months, our leash time has changed from backyard relaxing to forest exploring. Thank you Albert & Mia! I aspire to have a cat almost as well trained as yours!
OMG! This is such a beautiful message. Thank you for taking the time to write it! I really love what I do and messages like this one make everything worth it! Share some forest pictures when you can! Our instagram is @outdoorbengal! ❤️❤️
I love your harness, and so do the cats. One has become a total adventure cat (we have created a monster); he will go to the door and meow at us. When the harness comes out he starts purring. Loud. Both cats have gotten spooked and tried to run, the harness design worked perfectly and gave me the time to grab them without escaping.
This makes me so happy. I’m super comfortable recommending our harness, it truly works. But it’s an emergency system, it should not be working by default… your cats have been properly trained and that’s the real magic ❤️❤️
My cat wanted to explore the outdoors, but in my neighbourhood there are a lot of dogs without leashes walking around, and I didn't feel comfortable letting him go out by himself; so we began leash training when he was about 6 months old, and he loves going out now. We started with a conventional harness, but he was very uncomfortable wearing it, but tolerated it for sometimes several hours. Lots of rewards, and he eventually got ok with using it, but when we went outside, it was too restrictive for him to really explore. I then got this Houdini harness and it changed EVERYTHING! He seems more free now, exploring, and climbing trees (and dragging me through bushes) and he loves going out and exploring our neighbourhood with me. He'll see me take the leash, put on the cat backpack, and wait for me by the door until I get the harness on him. We normally walk for about an hour twice a week, and he loves it. We've gotten into a few dangerous situations before with dogs and cars, but this harness works really well, and gives me time to get back to him and put him on my shoulder or in the backpack to avoid these dangerous situations. We end every walk with his favorite treat, and meal time. Thank you so much for your videos, I'm sure my cat appreciates you SO MUCH for inspiring me to take him out on walks now. Much love to you and Mia!
I'm so happy to hear that the Houdini harness helped you THAT much. A good harness makes all the difference between the cat enjoying or the cat just hoping to get back indoors... Have you taught your cat to jump on your shoulder? It's my favorite trick for when we see a dog!
@@OutdoorBengal We're working on it! I need to be a bit more consistent with training, but already he's learned to sit and down (Lay) - We're working on finger targeting and carrier training (so that getting into the backpack is easier for us both). He knows the sounds of the treat tin I use and when I have the clicker in hand, he's ready and attentive. Friends and guests are already very impressed with a cat that can sit on command! Thank you for your video's! They've really helped a lot - He is my first Cat, and I am doing my best to make sure he is happy with me!
to me, even more important than the leash tension point, is to get the cat comfortable enough so they don't even try to escape! Need to catch up, man! I'm sure your trip has been AMAZING!
Cats don’t get lonely if you are there for them, but if you don’t have the time, then is 100% better to get them a buddy. We can’t replace the interaction that another cat would give, but we can certainly fill their lives with joy with training and outdoors.
Thanks for this great harness. Do you have any suggestions for places to walk a cat when the weather does not permit. I live in an area where the heat was over 85 degrees for the past 3.5 months. I have so many ways to play with my cat, and a Ferris wheel (that I moved inside), but nothing is as good as walking her. She loves it.
Hello! Forests are usually great when the heat is high. While cats are not as good as we are regulating their body temperature, as long as the sun doesn’t hit directly on them, their tolerance goes up a notch. Do you have any shaded parks?
Hi there!! I just adopted a bengal kitten (he is almost 9 weeks old)! I have been watching your videos religiously to prepare so that I can be the best cat mom I can be! Obviously I don’t want to do all of this too soon, as I don’t want to overwhelm him… would you be open to ever doing a video of tips of things you can do with your new Bengal kitten in the first few weeks to build the bond, and if you’re able, speak to when it may be the time to start training? Karma (that’s his name) and I would really appreciate it😊
Karma is a lucky kitten to have you as a mom! I hope you have tons of fun with him. I started training Mia when she was 12weeks old. I started with some easy tricks like come when called and finger targetting and got to more complex tricks once she was comfortable with those. You can find more about it in this video: th-cam.com/video/YxxCqtJ93zU/w-d-xo.html
we got our first 2 kittens in dec and went back for their remaining sister in feb, (2 full littermates and a younger half sib bengals) and so we had to initially wait out the canadian winter due to shaved bellies from them getting spayed... it's taken months and a lot of work, but each of them can be "walked" on a leash... aka either they act like a dog walking beside us, out an exploring on a longer lead, or their insane running till the sudden stop. the older two can now be walked together and are mostly decently not yanking one of us in different directions at the same time. working the 3rd in has been harder, but she's a bit more feral and has more ALC than her month older sisters. i'm just now taking steps into walking all 3 together and my hope is by the time winter truly hits, i can take them all out together lol, because having to take them out one at a time in 3' of snow will be miserable for me at least. our typically hardest part, is them trying to escape the house when we go out, and they've become experts at it. thankfully, them being typical yelling bengals, they are easier to track if they get out.
Hahaha the concept of yelling bengals is amazing 😂😂 Wishing you all the luck 🍀 you can get to walk all 3 of them together! Let me know if you achieve it… how! Regarding door dashing, totally agree! That’s a problem and deserves a video!!!
Love this video, thanks! I've been watching your videos for a good long while now. I now have two kittens, 6 months old, and want to start clicker training them. Any advice as to how to train two kittens at the same time? It seems impossible. Lol.
lol try with 3? we've tried locking one or two in another room to work on the one we are concentrating on. with 2, we could only get the basic "come here we have treats!" going.
I'm in the same situation, only just starting out, but so far I'm having some success based on the fact that they respond to their names so I add their names to commands and teach them together. It's a bit haphazard but one advantage is the slower one learns from the brighter one!
They do not respond to their names yet. I was hoping to reinforce names w clicker training. And I don’t live in a place w doors that can be closed off - yet. Any other ideas?
@@beaghmne2369 time and repetition, initially we only had 2 from middle of dec till feb(went back for the 3rd sister, she was the last of her litter). what dona said helps and just keep saying their name which each one as you do it. it was faster to train the 3rd to at least respond to the clicker, because she saw her sisters doing it.
@@beaghmne2369 I have Ragdolls who hate being apart, so although I have doors they aren't much use because they just cry of they aren't together! I think taking it slow and lots of patience is key. I say their names every time I see them, just as a hello, and by consistently doing that for a couple of weeks they responded naturally to their names, so I could bypass the clicker training for that. Charging the clicker was fine to do together, just have two treats ready for every click. Once they respond consistently to the click and to their names, then I initially clicked when one sat, and rewarded, and the other eventually copied. You just have to be more flexible with two, and go with the flow. I jumped ahead to saying "Sit" with their name quite quickly because that made it easy to reward specific behaviour in an individual cat. It does involve a lot of "resetting" by walking across the room and saying "come" so that they are both standing again. Good luck!
I adopted a 2,5 year old cat and he is now trained to walk with the harness on. Though he goes his own way and with the treats I have he does not listen outside to any commands like me calling his name. Is there a way to train my cat to walk beside me and make him more responsive to my commands? We do clicker training inside once a day for about 5 mins and then he listens a lot better(sometimes still slow in response)
Practice indoors and help your cat internalize that when the leash is on, they need to walk by your side by rewarding every few steps. Also, walk outdoors with patience, hold the leash and wait until the direction they chose to walk is the one you wanna take. With time they will learn that the only direction they can move is yours, and settle for that.
I have a good harness but he just drops down and goes crazy on the the floor when l put it on. I have a Bengal but adopted him at 3 and a half years. He wants to go outside but he can’t because he will get knocked over or eaten by a wild animal.
My Bengal-Tabby mix is a year old and leash training, after a couple of interruptions, is going well, thanks to your videos. We are just beginning to have a little fun and have a meadow surrounded by lovely trees, with sand for digging pleasure for her. Unfortunately, we cannot go into the dense, snake infested brush. We are in a subtropical zone. She has learned, through play in the house, what a snake is and I just tell her I can't go in there, there's bad snakes. She has nearly quite trying to escape into the brush without me and is doing more actual walking. At least we get out and she can eat grass. I am looking for a way to grow grass in a large, low container that she has room to lay down in. Do you have any suggestions for best equipment? I don't like the small choices offered and it's difficult to find something like a bulb forcing tray-like planter. Also, these are very expensive and what we want would be at least 15" X 22". She has a long body and stretches out to about 22". But how to grow without making a mess is another issue.
I got a massive patch of grass from a company, can’t remember the name. But if you could find a turf selling company, they might be able to help. Where exactly do you live? Bad Snakes sound scary!!
@@3SeasonsUSA there are some dog ones, kinda like what you're looking for. they're meant for dogs to pee on, but might work in your case. oat grass i find is quick growing, cats love it, and other than regular watering and some sunlight is very easy to grow. it doesn't even require a lot of direct sunlight.
I'm just discovering your channel. It's a shame you don't have more subscribers! I have a question: I'm going to have an adult cat used to live indoor. I don't want to let him walk alone outside, because, as a trusting human pure breed, (ragdoll) it could easily be stolen. But neither do I want to let him leave inside my home for the rest of its life. So I would like to bring him on walks (after having created a bound between us), as I would do with a dog. But I'm very afraid that the cat would run away from me (being afraid, or just wanting to explore); I'm thinking about having the leash tied at my belt so, having if I drop the leash (it's happen sometimes when I walk dogs), the cat would stay with me(remember: that cat didn't learn to be alone outside)... but I'm not sure it's a great idea, because of what would happen if we're attacked, I fall on the floor, and the cat need to escape? What do you think about it? I watched your video when you explain how you get your cat used to the harness. You explain there that your cat already escape some harnesses. That's terriying! How did you manage to recall her? And did she ONLY escaped walking backwards while you were pulling on the leash (if so, I have nothing to worry about... because my golden retriever already trained me to absolutely NEVER do that... he's a professional of that escape)?
You are so kind, thank you for your sweet words. A escape resistant would help keep your cat safe but leash walking skills (the ones your golden taught you) are key. Cats don't tend to run far away from us unless there's a threat. They star around you, but venture on their own. My recommendation is to get a safe harness and go to places that will be safe 99% of the times. Try to control what you can as much as possible. Then, for emergencies, have a bavkpack or teach shoulder training so your cat has an escape route up high with you, not away from you. Good luck!
definitely none i've seen to date. we have 3 girls, the ONLY time they've escaped the harness, has been when they've become spooked beyond reason. none of mine like them, i have to actually catch one of them, the other two tolerate us putting them on. all 3 have learned the relationship between having to wear the harness and being allowed out and taken for walks, which they live for. the other issue could be, that your cat has smartly learned how to get out of harnesses, so now it does that. you've probably tried this, but you need to keep trying indoors with praise and rewards while they're wearing it to sleep/play etc(watched), so they learn it's not such a bad thing and hopefully wear it outside.
No harness is 100% escape proof, but just like a great bicycle won’t win a race without an untrained athlete but a trained athlete will do much better with a great bicycle. I hope that makes sense. If you have not found your cat’s harness yet, I have to recommend you to try the Houdini, but most importantly, train indoors and get your cat to accept the harness (use treats, they can do wonders)!
I just got a cat and started watching your videos can i train multiple things together or it will just confuse him like training to sit and stay with shoulder cat and other things or i have to go one by one?
While I like the construction of the H harnesses, I don’t like that the strap around the neck is so thin. I feel it’s dangerous. That’s why the Houdini has a mini chest pad, to prevent choking.
Does mia always listen to their name? My kitten only listen when she feels like it. She is 10 weeks and the harness and leash training is going so easily, but im afraid to go outside because she doesn’t always listen to her name when something else got her interest
That's called competing stimuli, and it's completely normal. The way to get them to answer to their name most of the time is by making it extremely rewarding. Make it so rewarding that it becomes instinctive for your cat to look/listen to you when you call them. However, there will always be stronger stimuli that you can't compete with... that's why you need a good harness and good leash walking technique.
That's a beautiful way to put it. If they like you, the environment and what they are doing, what would they try to escape the harness? The problem is when we people force the cat and give the cat no reason to want to stay in that situation :)
@@OutdoorBengal omg... you have to read that one told to me. Someone had a cat but wanted the cat to play and poop outside and you guess it wasn't their cat just for the way they weren't invited to claw anything. >.< yeah humans like that exists. Dunno from wich mammal family people like that comes from.
You inspired me almost a year ago to start training my cat when she was only 3 months old.
First, I fed her wet food from a dish on my shoulder (only place to reach it). She actively seeks out my shoulder for a perch now!
Second, I trained her on (your) escape proof leash. For the last 4 months, our leash time has changed from backyard relaxing to forest exploring.
Thank you Albert & Mia! I aspire to have a cat almost as well trained as yours!
OMG! This is such a beautiful message. Thank you for taking the time to write it! I really love what I do and messages like this one make everything worth it!
Share some forest pictures when you can! Our instagram is @outdoorbengal! ❤️❤️
I love your harness, and so do the cats. One has become a total adventure cat (we have created a monster); he will go to the door and meow at us. When the harness comes out he starts purring. Loud.
Both cats have gotten spooked and tried to run, the harness design worked perfectly and gave me the time to grab them without escaping.
This makes me so happy. I’m super comfortable recommending our harness, it truly works.
But it’s an emergency system, it should not be working by default… your cats have been properly trained and that’s the real magic ❤️❤️
My cat wanted to explore the outdoors, but in my neighbourhood there are a lot of dogs without leashes walking around, and I didn't feel comfortable letting him go out by himself; so we began leash training when he was about 6 months old, and he loves going out now. We started with a conventional harness, but he was very uncomfortable wearing it, but tolerated it for sometimes several hours. Lots of rewards, and he eventually got ok with using it, but when we went outside, it was too restrictive for him to really explore. I then got this Houdini harness and it changed EVERYTHING!
He seems more free now, exploring, and climbing trees (and dragging me through bushes) and he loves going out and exploring our neighbourhood with me. He'll see me take the leash, put on the cat backpack, and wait for me by the door until I get the harness on him. We normally walk for about an hour twice a week, and he loves it. We've gotten into a few dangerous situations before with dogs and cars, but this harness works really well, and gives me time to get back to him and put him on my shoulder or in the backpack to avoid these dangerous situations.
We end every walk with his favorite treat, and meal time. Thank you so much for your videos, I'm sure my cat appreciates you SO MUCH for inspiring me to take him out on walks now.
Much love to you and Mia!
I'm so happy to hear that the Houdini harness helped you THAT much. A good harness makes all the difference between the cat enjoying or the cat just hoping to get back indoors...
Have you taught your cat to jump on your shoulder? It's my favorite trick for when we see a dog!
@@OutdoorBengal We're working on it! I need to be a bit more consistent with training, but already he's learned to sit and down (Lay) - We're working on finger targeting and carrier training (so that getting into the backpack is easier for us both). He knows the sounds of the treat tin I use and when I have the clicker in hand, he's ready and attentive. Friends and guests are already very impressed with a cat that can sit on command!
Thank you for your video's! They've really helped a lot - He is my first Cat, and I am doing my best to make sure he is happy with me!
Sounds like you are doing great! Text me if you have any questions!!!
SPOT ON with never letting tension be introduced that they can use as leverage!! I hardly see anybody talking about this.
to me, even more important than the leash tension point, is to get the cat comfortable enough so they don't even try to escape! Need to catch up, man! I'm sure your trip has been AMAZING!
Thanks!
Thank you! 🙏🏼
Glad to see your videos again :) Do you only have one cat?
Yes. Because I travel so much, one cat makes our life much easier!
How many cats do you have?
@@OutdoorBengal I only have one and she is a year old and is harness trained but I worry that she gets lonely. But I can’t harness train two cats.
Cats don’t get lonely if you are there for them, but if you don’t have the time, then is 100% better to get them a buddy.
We can’t replace the interaction that another cat would give, but we can certainly fill their lives with joy with training and outdoors.
Thanks for this great harness. Do you have any suggestions for places to walk a cat when the weather does not permit. I live in an area where the heat was over 85 degrees for the past 3.5 months. I have so many ways to play with my cat, and a Ferris wheel (that I moved inside), but nothing is as good as walking her. She loves it.
Hello! Forests are usually great when the heat is high. While cats are not as good as we are regulating their body temperature, as long as the sun doesn’t hit directly on them, their tolerance goes up a notch.
Do you have any shaded parks?
Thank you so much Albert, thanks to you I’ve been creating a better relationship with my cat, she even gives me high fives! 😂🎉
Hi there!! I just adopted a bengal kitten (he is almost 9 weeks old)! I have been watching your videos religiously to prepare so that I can be the best cat mom I can be!
Obviously I don’t want to do all of this too soon, as I don’t want to overwhelm him… would you be open to ever doing a video of tips of things you can do with your new Bengal kitten in the first few weeks to build the bond, and if you’re able, speak to when it may be the time to start training? Karma (that’s his name) and I would really appreciate it😊
Karma is a lucky kitten to have you as a mom! I hope you have tons of fun with him.
I started training Mia when she was 12weeks old. I started with some easy tricks like come when called and finger targetting and got to more complex tricks once she was comfortable with those. You can find more about it in this video: th-cam.com/video/YxxCqtJ93zU/w-d-xo.html
we got our first 2 kittens in dec and went back for their remaining sister in feb, (2 full littermates and a younger half sib bengals) and so we had to initially wait out the canadian winter due to shaved bellies from them getting spayed... it's taken months and a lot of work, but each of them can be "walked" on a leash... aka either they act like a dog walking beside us, out an exploring on a longer lead, or their insane running till the sudden stop. the older two can now be walked together and are mostly decently not yanking one of us in different directions at the same time. working the 3rd in has been harder, but she's a bit more feral and has more ALC than her month older sisters. i'm just now taking steps into walking all 3 together and my hope is by the time winter truly hits, i can take them all out together lol, because having to take them out one at a time in 3' of snow will be miserable for me at least.
our typically hardest part, is them trying to escape the house when we go out, and they've become experts at it. thankfully, them being typical yelling bengals, they are easier to track if they get out.
Hahaha the concept of yelling bengals is amazing 😂😂
Wishing you all the luck 🍀 you can get to walk all 3 of them together! Let me know if you achieve it… how!
Regarding door dashing, totally agree! That’s a problem and deserves a video!!!
Can you please show a video on how to make your cat walk beside you when on a harness I can’t find this information anywhere 😊
Yes please, I've been looking for a video on this too
Lovely Mia.....🐈🐾🐈⬛🙏😻🥰💗 xx
Thank you!!! ❤️❤️ she’s the best ☺️
Mia is beautiful ..... 🐈🐾🐈⬛🙏😻🥰💗 xx
That makes sense!!. 👌
❤️❤️ thank you! 🙏🏼
Love this video, thanks! I've been watching your videos for a good long while now. I now have two kittens, 6 months old, and want to start clicker training them. Any advice as to how to train two kittens at the same time? It seems impossible. Lol.
lol try with 3? we've tried locking one or two in another room to work on the one we are concentrating on. with 2, we could only get the basic "come here we have treats!" going.
I'm in the same situation, only just starting out, but so far I'm having some success based on the fact that they respond to their names so I add their names to commands and teach them together. It's a bit haphazard but one advantage is the slower one learns from the brighter one!
They do not respond to their names yet. I was hoping to reinforce names w clicker training. And I don’t live in a place w doors that can be closed off - yet.
Any other ideas?
@@beaghmne2369 time and repetition, initially we only had 2 from middle of dec till feb(went back for the 3rd sister, she was the last of her litter). what dona said helps and just keep saying their name which each one as you do it. it was faster to train the 3rd to at least respond to the clicker, because she saw her sisters doing it.
@@beaghmne2369 I have Ragdolls who hate being apart, so although I have doors they aren't much use because they just cry of they aren't together! I think taking it slow and lots of patience is key. I say their names every time I see them, just as a hello, and by consistently doing that for a couple of weeks they responded naturally to their names, so I could bypass the clicker training for that. Charging the clicker was fine to do together, just have two treats ready for every click. Once they respond consistently to the click and to their names, then I initially clicked when one sat, and rewarded, and the other eventually copied. You just have to be more flexible with two, and go with the flow. I jumped ahead to saying "Sit" with their name quite quickly because that made it easy to reward specific behaviour in an individual cat. It does involve a lot of "resetting" by walking across the room and saying "come" so that they are both standing again. Good luck!
I adopted a 2,5 year old cat and he is now trained to walk with the harness on. Though he goes his own way and with the treats I have he does not listen outside to any commands like me calling his name. Is there a way to train my cat to walk beside me and make him more responsive to my commands? We do clicker training inside once a day for about 5 mins and then he listens a lot better(sometimes still slow in response)
Practice indoors and help your cat internalize that when the leash is on, they need to walk by your side by rewarding every few steps. Also, walk outdoors with patience, hold the leash and wait until the direction they chose to walk is the one you wanna take. With time they will learn that the only direction they can move is yours, and settle for that.
Thank ypu for your advise.
I have a good harness but he just drops down and goes crazy on the the floor when l put it on. I have a Bengal but adopted him at 3 and a half years. He wants to go outside but he can’t because he will get knocked over or eaten by a wild animal.
Makes total sense… have you tried different harnesses that your cat is more comfortable wearing?
@@OutdoorBengal Thank you l am going to try another harness.
Your houdini harness is not sold here in Italy. Do you have a website to sell it and ship abroad?
My Bengal-Tabby mix is a year old and leash training, after a couple of interruptions, is going well, thanks to your videos. We are just beginning to have a little fun and have a meadow surrounded by lovely trees, with sand for digging pleasure for her. Unfortunately, we cannot go into the dense, snake infested brush. We are in a subtropical zone. She has learned, through play in the house, what a snake is and I just tell her I can't go in there, there's bad snakes. She has nearly quite trying to escape into the brush without me and is doing more actual walking. At least we get out and she can eat grass. I am looking for a way to grow grass in a large, low container that she has room to lay down in. Do you have any suggestions for best equipment? I don't like the small choices offered and it's difficult to find something like a bulb forcing tray-like planter. Also, these are very expensive and what we want would be at least 15" X 22". She has a long body and stretches out to about 22". But how to grow without making a mess is another issue.
I got a massive patch of grass from a company, can’t remember the name. But if you could find a turf selling company, they might be able to help.
Where exactly do you live? Bad Snakes sound scary!!
@@OutdoorBengal live along the gulf of Mexico, southeastern USA
@@3SeasonsUSA there are some dog ones, kinda like what you're looking for. they're meant for dogs to pee on, but might work in your case. oat grass i find is quick growing, cats love it, and other than regular watering and some sunlight is very easy to grow. it doesn't even require a lot of direct sunlight.
@@cheallaigh thanks, i'll look into it
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I'm just discovering your channel. It's a shame you don't have more subscribers!
I have a question: I'm going to have an adult cat used to live indoor. I don't want to let him walk alone outside, because, as a trusting human pure breed, (ragdoll) it could easily be stolen. But neither do I want to let him leave inside my home for the rest of its life. So I would like to bring him on walks (after having created a bound between us), as I would do with a dog.
But I'm very afraid that the cat would run away from me (being afraid, or just wanting to explore); I'm thinking about having the leash tied at my belt so, having if I drop the leash (it's happen sometimes when I walk dogs), the cat would stay with me(remember: that cat didn't learn to be alone outside)... but I'm not sure it's a great idea, because of what would happen if we're attacked, I fall on the floor, and the cat need to escape? What do you think about it?
I watched your video when you explain how you get your cat used to the harness. You explain there that your cat already escape some harnesses. That's terriying! How did you manage to recall her? And did she ONLY escaped walking backwards while you were pulling on the leash (if so, I have nothing to worry about... because my golden retriever already trained me to absolutely NEVER do that... he's a professional of that escape)?
You are so kind, thank you for your sweet words.
A escape resistant would help keep your cat safe but leash walking skills (the ones your golden taught you) are key. Cats don't tend to run far away from us unless there's a threat. They star around you, but venture on their own.
My recommendation is to get a safe harness and go to places that will be safe 99% of the times. Try to control what you can as much as possible. Then, for emergencies, have a bavkpack or teach shoulder training so your cat has an escape route up high with you, not away from you.
Good luck!
@@OutdoorBengal Thank you very much for your answer!
So is no harness escape proof? Because if my cat backs up they seem to escape every harness I’ve bought (like a dozen at this point)
It sounds like the harness needs to be a happier experience for your cat, it’s more about training than about buying the perfect harness.
definitely none i've seen to date. we have 3 girls, the ONLY time they've escaped the harness, has been when they've become spooked beyond reason. none of mine like them, i have to actually catch one of them, the other two tolerate us putting them on. all 3 have learned the relationship between having to wear the harness and being allowed out and taken for walks, which they live for. the other issue could be, that your cat has smartly learned how to get out of harnesses, so now it does that. you've probably tried this, but you need to keep trying indoors with praise and rewards while they're wearing it to sleep/play etc(watched), so they learn it's not such a bad thing and hopefully wear it outside.
No harness is 100% escape proof, but just like a great bicycle won’t win a race without an untrained athlete but a trained athlete will do much better with a great bicycle.
I hope that makes sense.
If you have not found your cat’s harness yet, I have to recommend you to try the Houdini, but most importantly, train indoors and get your cat to accept the harness (use treats, they can do wonders)!
Mia is very cute
I just got a cat and started watching your videos can i train multiple things together or it will just confuse him like training to sit and stay with shoulder cat and other things or i have to go one by one?
What is your opinion on the H harness for a 5 month bengal cat? It’s the harness with the two hole for the front two feet of the cat.
While I like the construction of the H harnesses, I don’t like that the strap around the neck is so thin. I feel it’s dangerous. That’s why the Houdini has a mini chest pad, to prevent choking.
Does mia always listen to their name? My kitten only listen when she feels like it. She is 10 weeks and the harness and leash training is going so easily, but im afraid to go outside because she doesn’t always listen to her name when something else got her interest
That's called competing stimuli, and it's completely normal. The way to get them to answer to their name most of the time is by making it extremely rewarding. Make it so rewarding that it becomes instinctive for your cat to look/listen to you when you call them. However, there will always be stronger stimuli that you can't compete with... that's why you need a good harness and good leash walking technique.
@@OutdoorBengal thank you so much for your answer! We’ll keep practicing 💪🏼
What if they don’t like treats?
I put two harneses on my cat and still wondering if that is enough :-)
Haha that sounds like a lot 😅❤️
Is your cat comfortable??
@@OutdoorBengal after she is yelling like 2hours at the front door, yes I think she is. For her the harness is signal that she is going for a walk.
then you are good! haha
She stays in harness as puee curtesy to you. Because she loves you.
That's a beautiful way to put it. If they like you, the environment and what they are doing, what would they try to escape the harness? The problem is when we people force the cat and give the cat no reason to want to stay in that situation :)
@@OutdoorBengal omg... you have to read that one told to me. Someone had a cat but wanted the cat to play and poop outside and you guess it wasn't their cat just for the way they weren't invited to claw anything. >.< yeah humans like that exists. Dunno from wich mammal family people like that comes from.
Calm soldier 39'
Thank you but I don’t know who’s cat that is
Kind designer 34
Yes!!