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First, the easy part - the seller was great!Second, the rating - I gave the Kitty Holster 5 stars because I do not believe it is possible to design a harness that can better secure a cat. With that said, I must say that SOME cats can escape from it.Third, the rest of the story. I have two cats: Pasha and Nino. Pasha is a Russian Blue and is athletic, slim and smart. I found a 'regular type' harness and after some training and reasoning, he can not escape (or at least doesn't try to anymore), It is not a problem to put him out on my deck with me as I relax - he has accepted the Zen of the harness as his tradeoff for outdoor time. Nino came to me from a shelter last Fall, and I want to let him out along with Pasha for some outdoor time. Nino has exceptional upper body strength, is stocky, and determined. He has easily escaped from every other cat harness I have (four) within a minute, including the one Pasha does not. That led me to the Kitty Holster, in hopes that this may be one cat harness that I could put on him without his escape. Alas, after a half dozen outdoor sessions trying various harnessing techniques and snugness, he can still escape. However, it takes him quite a while now, and he seems to slowly be accepting the fact his outdoor life will be in a Kitty Holster. I have included some Tips learned from my experiences with Nino below.Tips to Others with Houdini-like cats:1. Snugness - Nino is quite an actor and protested his Kitty Harness was way too tight from the first time I put it on him. He cried, and panted, and moaned, and rolled his eyes, making me fear that he could not breathe. It was a ruse. In fact, I could easily slip two fingers underneath the harness all around. When I first gave in and loosened it - he was out of it a minute. Keep it tight - use the two finger rule all around.2. Taut Leash. I attach the Kitty Holster to a line on my deck that gives Nino about 12 feet of roaming space either way from the anchor spindle.That covers almost the whole deck. I found that for him to escape the Kitty Holster he must have the line as taut as possible and use it as an assist to help him escape. To do this he roams to one of the far points and pretends to lay down to reflect upon nature, looking away from me at the trees, the sky, a bug or some other distracting point in the yard. Fall NOT for this trick. He was merely trying to lull me into a false sense of security so I would feel safe turning my attention to some complicated OPed piece in the paper or an especially engrossing dialogue in my latest summer read. When he perceives I am otherwise amused, he will immediately start his escape process. As I said, it takes him several good minutes to complete his escape from Kitty Holster, at the far end of the leash - so my advice to others is to NEVER look away when your cat is at the end of his leash. Or move your chair next to him there, but that would probably just make him go to the other side.3. Demonic-like Possession. IF you fail to abide by my first two pieces of advice, you still have one more safeguard before your little whiskerpuss can make good their escape from the Kitty Holster. For Nino, this requires him to undergo what must possibly be demonic possession, worthy of Linda Blair's cat if she had one in the Exorcist. While the leash is stretched taut, he will begin a series of rapid rolls, back and forth, around the deck, all while doing what would be Jumping Jacks if he were human. There is much kicking and scratching with his back legs at the object of his seemingly mortal hatred - the Kitty Holster. Soon, he has his front paws up over his head, shaking them in such a frightful manner, that you feel he is either casting a spell or doing his best to pray to some Feline goddess. After this goes on for several minutes, his head begins to wiggle in a manner as in common in voodoo trances - absent any foaming at the mouth. And then finally, after several more minutes, he gets on his four feet and jumps backward as if ejected from some inter-dimensional vortex, and voila the Kitty Harness lays defeated before him. If he has gotten this far, a critical moment in the ceremony has come. While distracted by the joy of his victory, he will momentarily pause to compose himself, which is the exact time you must arise from your chair, cut off his line of escape, pick up Whiskerpuss and either put him back into the house or Kitty Holster. I can happily report that his instances of possession are becoming less frequent, as he realizes that no matter how much he gives into the dark side that his efforts will come to naught. I am hopeful that soon Nino will take Pashsa's lead, take up Zen, and learn to love the Kitty Holster and the outdoor time it brings.

I have a very badly behaved cat that has to be isolated from the others in the household. After seeing this product on Jackson Galaxy's show, I decided to give it a try since the cat, Bob, needed some serious exercise to get over cabin fever. The first couple of times that he put it on, he was not too thrilled. When it was removed, the sound of the velcro "ripping" totally freaked him out so I had a few sessions where I just sat in his room and ripped the velcro over and over. He got used to it.Once that cat figured out that if he put on his "jacket," he could go outside for a walk, his entire demeanor changed. He now meows excitedly when I get the Kitty Holster out, stands still while I put it on and hook up the retractable leash, and then walks right out that room like he has been wearing one of these things for his entire life!At first, he didn't understand the rules about walking but all I had to do was just take up the slack and not give in to his pulling. He figured it out. Now he knows that if the leash stops giving, he can't go that way and he gladly walks on. I sometimes have to sort of drag him back to the house because he doesn't want to go in but the Kitty Holster lets me pull him along without hurting him. He is getting better and better at it each day. And, of course, having treats ready when we go back to his room doesn't hurt.UPDATE: September 19, 2016. I'm still walking the cat with the Kitty Holster three years later. He is the hit of the neighborhood and has made a lot of friends. He really looks forward to his "walks" in the evening which usually consist of just laying in the yard and watching all of his dog friends when they come over on their walks. I am careful to not walk him in yards that use chemicals. That is just not good for the kitty. If he does walk down the street, he has to have his feet washed off when I bring him in. I've only had one incident with escape and that was a few months ago when I was in too big of a hurry to put the harness on and didn't fasten the front part securely. The funny thing is that, although Bob "escaped," he is so trained to being limited in where he can go that he just went about 50 feet away and then came back when called. Bob and I have certainly got our money's worth out of the Kitty Holster.

I didn't know how my indoor cat was going to react when I put him in this thing...Day 1-3 he was just a statue outside ha ha.. After I would bring him in I gave him treatsBy Day 4 he walked like he didn't even have the vest on...He chased another cat by day 7 with me behind him embarrassed as hell.So yes 5 stars fits good, I don't think he can wiggle out of it.My cat LOVES it and actually throws a temper tantrum after I bring him in and remove the vest, it's insane...