Cat Walking With Jackie Morris

A piece I wrote for today's Financial Times Weekend Magazine.

For more info on Jackie, Kiffer, Elmo, Maurice, Martha, Pixie and Max, visit her excellent We Three Cats blog.




Photographs by David Barnes.

Cat Walking: The Craze Sweeping The Western World?

I wrote a little about the often often undervalued art of cat-walking in the prologue of Under The Paw, but I think I would have struggled to fill out an entire book about it. Steven Jacobson and Jean Miller, however, have done. Walk Your Cat could easily be mistaken for a humour title, the kind of concept the creators of the brilliant Dancing With Cats and Why Cats Paint might have come up with, but it does actually appear to be a serious guide, and even comes complete with a harness and leash. Much as I'd like a companion for my low-level adventures in the East Anglian countryside, I don't think I'll be purchasing and following up my ill-fated rambling experiment with Shipley circa 2004.