Weird how nobody mentions that you can actually walk your cat - it's very different from walking a dog, but completely doable. Over time you can get rid of the

Weird how nobody mentions that you can actually walk your cat - it's very different from walking a dog, but completely doable. Over time you can get rid of the leash and just walk side by side. My cat was 10 when we moved to a ground floor apartment, so we couldn't realistically prevent him from escaping, so we started walking him. He lived over 16 years, the last two of which he would only go outside to lay in the bushes.