I was forced to walk our pair of cats on leashes while in the Army in Arizona. Post regulations prohibited any free-roaming pets due to the danger to the animals from scorpions, snattelyrakes and coyotes, and the likelihood that unmonitored small critters would attract more of same.

Without small animals to attract them, the coyotes pretty much stayed out of the living quarters area, which was well defended by a "herd" of stink-pussies (a.k.a. skunks) that lived under the "reviewing stand" on the parade ground in the middle of the post. (I counted 38 of them one night, cleaning up the bugs and grubs on the parade ground; but nobody ever smelled one during the time I was there.)

I have not met a cat (that could be petted) that couldn't be taught to accept being "leashed," althought the training with some can require body armor (to pretect the trainer) and tall ladders (to repeatedly retrieve the cat until reasonably trained).

John