A New Challenge: Cats in a Canoe?

[Black_Fly]

Anyone heard of a canoeing cat? My next project?

 

[Alan Gage]

I think someone posted pictures here of a friend with a canoeing cat.

Alan

 

[Boatman53]

I had a canoeing cat but it was so long ago I don’t have any pics. It was totally bonded with my Samoyed it went anywhere she went, walks boat rides, it didn’t matter.
Jim

 

[lowangle al]

I've had two cats out in a canoe. The first was around 1980, he went on an overnighter. The other is my current cat, he seemed to be a little nervous, but it wasn't traumatic for him. I think he would get used to it if I took him out more often.

 

[Penns Woods]

I have one of my wife's cats that loves to sit on my lab and watch canoe videos with me. We often joke that I should take her along on my trips.
I'm not sure how she would react to being in the canoe. I tolerate her here at the house only because my wife tolerated my Labrador retrievers all those years. One good thing No Mice

 

[memaquay]

There was a fella on Myccr about 20 years ago, think his name was Richard Culpepper, apparently a lawyer in Thunder Bay. Anyway, he was a very serious canoeist, and he also took his cat on most trips. If my memory is right, he posted a picture of himself and his cat in a Chestnut Pal, running a very large set of rapids, like the hugest rapids in the world. Just kiddn, but they were big.
I believe this is him, not in the rapids though.

 

[Idiot Savant]

As someone who has raised a lot of cats, I'm not sure taking a cat in your canoe is a good idea.
At the very least, it needs to be harnessed.
A cat isn't a dog. It is going to do what it wants to do and that could mean running off.
All it would take is something startling it.

 

[Steve in Idaho]

Friends well known in the local canoeing community had their cat George with them on every trip. The cat was always riding up front looking over the bow. Seemed like George thought he was a dog. He was also leash trained, and would usually be on leash while on shore.