The Famous Traveling Cat

Photo by Jamieleigh
Location: The desert of Moab, UT
My cat Ninja

I’ve been on the road with my cat, Ninja (pictured above) for about 3 months solid now. She has been to Florida, Georgia, both Carolinas, Tennessee and now Alabama where we are currently. Every location has been different but she is used to our RV and what it looks like. She has no problem finding it among others, and it has helped lately with the nice weather to have our bird aviary nearby as that makes it very obvious.

It has been a blast traveling with her. Everyone on the lot has gotten to know her and she even makes some random appearances at local BBQ’s we have on the lots. Everyone looks forward to seeing her and seeing what kind of mood she’s in.

The question I always get is, “Won’t she run away?” the answer is no. Why would she? I have a super close bond with her and I have never forced her to do anything she doesn’t want to, I’ve always gone about training it with her so she knows I won’t make her do things. I never make her cuddle with me, and I never make her come in or go out. I make sure to always ask, which becomes a mutual respect between animal and human.

So that makes it so that she never wants to leave us. In fact, she jumped out the window of my truck once while I was parked at the newest location and started wondering around. Well, I had to end up moving so I started moving the truck and she freaked out and came running over, wanting in, so that she wouldn’t be left behind. She knows when that RV is moving that it’s in fact, MOVING. Not that I would ever leave her, though, but I won’t tell her that if it gets her in so fast

I also use random rewarding which gets a very quick response to the “come” command.