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

Don’t forget to leave a review for the Catexplorer Podcast by the 25th November 2019 to go in the draw to win a Give Your Cat the World hoodie. Send a screenshot to Catexplorer via a direct message on Instagram or email it to heythere@catexplorer.co.

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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.

Facebook Group

WNC Adventure Cats

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.