When my cat was just a kitten we decided to try and leash train him. He took to it well and it has become a daily thing we do. Take an hour or two and just walk around the neighborhood, sometimes even going to the park.
We have never had any big issues walking my cat, there might be a dog here and there but my cat doesn’t pay any mind to them.
The other day we had a little boy that looked about 10 come up to us as we were walking in the park. He tried to pet my cat but my cat slap his hand before he could even touch him.
His mother came running over yelling at me for allowing my cat to hurt her child and that he shouldn’t be outside if he is that reactive.
I told the woman he shouldn’t go up to random animals and try to pet them, other animals can do way worse then just a pop to the hand. She said she gave him permission to pet my cat and that I should be lucky she didn’t call animal control on my reactive cat.
My parents say that I should have stopped the little boy before he got to my cat but I expected him to ask before he tried petting my cat. I’m starting to think I was in the wrong.
Sounds like a karen to me. “She allowed her son to pet?” Wow, can i allow my cat permission to scratch you just because I gave permission?