Attempt to harness train a kitten (watch to the end):

[tblue37]

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This is Egg, a very lazy British Shorthair kitten, doing harness training..

Watch until the end..

[Wingus Dingus]

1. Kitty, not having it.

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2. A reply shares a somersaulting kitteh video (2nd tweet):

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[TygrBright]

3. I KNEW that was coming!

It's a very common cat response to the restraint sensation.

LOL....

Now is when you put a treat close but just out of reach enough that they have to stand/move to reach it, then offer a distracting toy.

amusedly,
Voice of Experience Bright

[Siwsan]

4. My Sophie Stinky Toes used to do that

For most of her 14 years, the outdoors terrified her. I'd put on the harness, carry her outside and she'd just flop down or strain to get back into the house. Then, in the last 6 months of her life she developed a LOVE of the outdoors and gladly wore her harness.

I plan to try getting Madoc and Gryff into harnesses.

[Ocelot II]

5. Cats do civil disobedience very well.

They just flop over when an attempt is made to harness them.

[rurallib]

7. it is when they start singing "We shall Overcome" that

really gets my attention.

We tried it with one of our cats. I harnessed her, took her outside and down she went. I tried dragging her a few feet - nothing. Until the squirrel roared by and they both went up a tree. I learned. We never did that again.

[Vinca]

6. It's a well known fact that humans do not train cats, cats train humans.