{"id":84890,"date":"2026-09-14T18:06:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T10:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=84890"},"modified":"2026-09-14T18:06:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T10:06:58","slug":"should-you-walk-your-cat-los-angeles-pet-owners-and-vets-weigh-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=84890","title":{"rendered":"Should you walk your cat? Los Angeles pet owners and vets weigh in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/09\/14\/0cf7072c-dcb0-4c6f-abf9-c0c6b63221a7_a3e0ea33.jpg?itok=YxlOG-Dr&amp;v=1789368564\" \/><br \/>Gnocchi sits attentively on a Beverly Grove pavement with his owner, Julia Luke. Gnocchi wears a pink collar with his name on it, an AirTag and a red harness with a leash. He observes the neighbours. He sniffs the grass. He watches bugs crawl in the dirt.<br \/>\n\u201cPeople know Gnocchi\u2019s name before they know mine,\u201d Luke says.<br \/>\nBut seeing Gnocchi stops strangers in their tracks.<br \/>\nThat is because Gnocchi is not a dog.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s a cat on a leash!\u201d an unfamiliar neighbour exclaims, stooping to pet him.<br \/>\nWhile&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/family-relationships\/article\/3367406\/should-you-walk-your-cat-los-angeles-pet-owners-and-vets-weigh?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gnocchi sits attentively on a Beverly Grove pavement with his owner, Julia Luke. Gnocchi wears a pink collar with his name on it, an AirTag&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[4808,513,4807,4354,1489,16141,1631,2853],"class_list":["post-84890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-angeles","tag-cat","tag-los","tag-owners","tag-pet","tag-vets","tag-walk","tag-weigh","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}