L’horizon des chats d’appartement en ville est un peu restreint…C’est ce que se sont un jour dit Sébastien et Adrien, deux amis amateurs de balades. Après avoir emmené la chatte Ewia explorer les forêts genevoises, ils décident de faire de même avec ses 3 chatons. D’abord craintifs, les félins prennent vite goût à ces explorations dans la nature et apprennent à suivre les deux copains dans leurs pérégrinations. Sébastien et Adrien décident alors de partir avec leurs 4 chats randonner en haute montagne pendant quelques jours. Une bouffée de liberté et une jolie histoire de communion entre humains et animaux.
Passe-moi les jumelles du 21 avril 2023, une émission de la Radio Télévision Suisse.
"Dehors avec les chats", un reportage de Sébastien Sevino
We are two good friends, Baciato and me, Sébastien.
Baciato has a cat named Ewea.
He lives in an apartment in the city
and he thought it was a shame that Ewea never left the apartment.
So he started to take her in the forest.
Once we went together and when night fell, we couldn't find her anymore.
The next day, he came back and found her.
A few months later, he realized that she had fallen pregnant that night.
And when the kittens were born, he said to himself,
I'm going to do the same, I'm going to take them in the forest, in nature.
You can't jump, but you have to jump.
Not bad, not bad.
You did a good job.
Good, the two poor things.
Come on, let's go to daddy.
At first, we were a little afraid that they would get lost or get hurt.
But we saw them progress and it was really nice.
It gave us confidence and after a while we said to ourselves,
why not go a little further?
Go to the mountains with them for a few days.
We took the tent, we took the sleeping bags and then we left.
The first day, we walked a little, there was a little climb,
but we didn't want to force it too much.
It was a new environment for them, so we let them discover it a little.
So we camped and left the tent a little open
so that during the night they could come in and out if they wanted.
After a while, it was so cold that two of them went into the sleeping bag.
And that was super cute.
They quickly became wild cats, wild cats.
They jumped over the rivers, they followed us, they walked in the snow.
They were really comfortable in the mountains with us.
The next day
There are two or three clouds.
What are we eating?
The second day, after a while, we noticed that they were a little tired.
So we said to ourselves, we're going to let them rest a little.
We put our bags down and then they took a nap.
We said to ourselves, we're going to take a nap too,
because we adapt, we're with cats, we do like them.
Yeah, once in there, it's still a lot better.
We become a bit like cats.
Yeah, did you see that?
We sleep like that in the middle of the day.
It's serious.
I'm dead.
After the nap, the cats were still too tired to leave.
So we put them on the bag and we carried them.
I messed up.
I put my foot in the bag.
So what did you do? Did you put your foot in the water?
I went to get it and I threw it on my foot.
It's funny.
End of the break.
I don't know how to take them off.
They're too hot on the bag.
You give them a little massage.
Yeah.
You go down to the spine.
You stretch the spine with your two fingers.
OK.
And you feel the muscles that are just the muscles of the back.
Do you feel them or not?
Yeah, yeah.
You give them a little massage like that.
And you see, they love it and then they leave.
There's everyone who wants a massage.
OK, OK.
Come on, Lou.
Come on.
Come on, guys.
Come on.
Perfect.
Let's go.
We'll go through you.
Come on.
It was super moving to see these cats in nature, jumping in all directions.
Yeah, there was almost a communion because we let them free, but they stayed with us.
It was really beautiful to see them like that, free.
Love and happiness.
