Where did you get the idea of using your cats as pack animals? Mine seem to prefer working as hunters and retrievers.
Excuse me, the cats-I-don't-have seem to prefer. . . hunting chipmunks and retrieving them to leave in the garage as gifts for me. Every other day I'm hunting down the smelly things [someone's] cats leave laying about.
Lol, I just like messing with them. And them laying there motionless and calm, just ends up begging for me to see if I can't stack something on them w/o getting a response.
We have a book titled "Stuff on My Cat" and the whole book is pics of things people have put on their sleeping or comatose cats. Not just funny outfits, wigs, army men, beer cans and shoes, but stacks of pillows, boxes, kitchen utensils, food. Pose them with whiskey bottles and cigars, hair bows and jewelry, toy guns, tools. Funny book. One of the grands' favorites.