An Off-Leash Cat Park?

The world's first off-leash park for cats has been proposed in Vancouver.

It is quite common in most urban public parks these days to have a designated area for dogs. These areas allow owners and their furry companions to have the freedom they may not feel in other urban spaces. Well, according to a group of cat owners in Vancouver's west-end it's high time the cat world gained this same privilege.

Cats can climb trees and dogs can't. Good luck getting Fluffy down when your lunch hour is over. And many cats can easily leap a fence that would defeat the average hound. So unless this park is treeless and completely screened in, I don't know how it would work. As for my Shelley, she completely freaked out when I tried to introduce her to the great outdoors that is the hallway on our floor. She also can't be around other cats due to her FIV+ status. I suspect that issue alone would kill this idea for the owners of uninfected cats, although there is a somewhat effective vaccine.