Water sports with your cat, catexploring with dog siblings and keeping your indoor cat happy with Emmylou Adventure Cat
Emmylou is a cat who is a natural on the water, be it in a raft, in a kayak and even a stand up paddleboard. Her mum Annie, shares just how Emmylou learned to go on the water as well as how she goes catexploring with her dog siblings. We also dive into how to enrich your cat’s life while they are indoors.
What we talk about
How Emmylou came into Annie’s life
How Emmylou trained to be a catexplorer
Types of catexploring Emmylou does
Things that have surprised Annie about catexploring
How amazing the Catexplorer community is and making friends on Instagram/in real life
How catexploring gets the humans out of their comfort zone too
Recall training Emmylou
Cat backpack training
Emmylou’s dog siblings
Introducing a dog sibling to your cat
Catexploring with Emmylou and her dog siblings
How to go on a stand up paddle board and kayak with your cat
Tools to use when taking your cat out on the water
Rafting with your cat
Things to think about when going rafting with your cat
How to plan to go catexploring
The realities of catexploring
How dog siblings feel about the ‘restrictions’ of catexploring
How Emmylou became comfortable around waterfalls
Off leash dogs
Why you should keep your cat indoors
The negatives of keeping your cat indoors
How to keep your cat happy indoors
Cat catios
Clicker training your cat
Making Emmylou’s cat tree & catio
Advice for new catexplorers
Most entertaining comment while out and about with Emmylou
Catexplorers that inspire Annie
Product, service or program that has been a gamechanger for Emmylou
Giveaway
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Guest – Emmylou & Annie
Instagram - @emmylou_adventurecat
Facebook – Emmylou AdventureCat
Emmylou’s cat tree
Emmylou’s catio
Instagram accounts mentioned
Burma - @burmaadventurecat – Hear Burma’s story on the Catexplorer Podcast here.
Hokulea the surfing cat - @hokuleathesurfingcat
Sophie from the KCC Adventure team - @kittycatchronicles – Hear Sophie’s story on the Catexplorer Podcast here.
Cat School - @cat.school – Hear Julie talk all about training your cat here.
Travelling cats in Japan - @the.traveling.cats
Mike & Lily - @adventuresofmikeandlily – Hear Mike & Lily’s story on the Catexplorer Podcast here.
Roxy - @roxythe_kitty – Hear Roxy’s story on the Catexplorer Podcast here.
Sushi - @hunkysushi – Hear Sushi’s story on the Catexplorer Podcast here.
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Music
Music for this episode was composed and performed by Kory McIntyre.
Cover art
The photo used for the cover art for Season 3 of Catexplorer Podcast is of @renske_aken & was taken by Sylvia van Heek.