This was funny. Cats are pretty smart.

Not to watch the cat, but to let her outside for a bit when the weather is good. She sits in the window sill and cries loudly, wanting to explore.

I tried walking her to allow her to see the rest of our place, in the beginning. It didn't work well. Being a cat, she wants to go under and around things; being in the open is not her thing.

I've tried a long line attached to something in the yard; if I'm working in the yard it's okay; otherwise, I have to be there every few minutes anyway, because she gets all tangled up.

She also, no matter how tight the harness is, will eventually find a way to squeeze out of it.

My efforts to allow her some outdoor time have not been wildly successful. She can't go outdoors without restraint; we've got coyotes, owls, hawks, and other cat predators.

passive resistance
n.

Noncooperation or noncompliance with the laws or directives of an authority, particularly of a government or occupying power, as a form of protest against injustice.

he crouched down and growled and I removed it.

i certainly didn't want to be viewing a dead cat

maybe put the word dead in quotations?

SNL's current writers write the eqivalent of this kind of LOL in a skit?

a cat being walked on a harness/leash, but my last cat would do the "passive non aggressive resistance" that this cat shows.

MERELY RESTING

"No you're not. You'll be stone dead in a moment."

wouldn't be caught dead (see what I did there) on a leash. He walks and runs when he pleases. lol

And he/she has been deactivated.

Mind Blown.