Turns out that hiking cats are more common than you might think. These adventurous felines can be found on YouTube and Instagram, where they explore rough mountain terrain, rocky beaches, and green pastures.

There’s Cezar, the traveling cat who’s been to France, El Salvador, and Malta. Then there’s Honey Bee, the blind cat who loves to spend time outdoors. Or Paul the cat, whose high-altitude hiking videos will put your own hiking abilities to shame.

While most cats are naturally pretty curious, not every cat is built to explore the outside world. Felines that possess a playful demeanor and an interest in the outside world — and are willing to wear a harness — might make solid hikers.

If you’re just looking for 15 minutes of nature footage and cute cats, watch a video or two and then daydream of one day climbing a mountain with Whiskers by your side.

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Vladimir has seen more of the U.S. than most Americans. For the past two years, he has visited 50-plus national parks, traveling in a renovated 1989 Toyota motor home with Cees and Madison Hofman and their infant son.

He goes kayaking, hiking and rappelling. Between adventures, he naps, eats and watches the passing scenery out the RV window. He never has to pitch in for gas. As the Hofmans’ cat, Vladimir is excused from sharing the wheel or any other chore of road travel.

American pet owners are taking their cats to the great outdoors, packing kibble, litter boxes and a leash with the rest of the camping gear. For them, the road dog is the family cat.

While most pet cats seldom stray from the comforts of home, these so-called adventure cats are finding their way back into the wild.

To make sure curiosity doesn’t kill the cat, adventurous owners tuck their pets in hiking backpacks—some specially made for pets—or stow them in the prows of kayaks. The most important accoutrement is the leash and harness.

Trying to leash train a cat is tough, time-consuming work, as anyone who’s tried knows. Yet it is a threshold skill for adventure cats, which are prone to darting off trail if left to wander untethered.

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