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Originally Posted by Tom Stormcrowe
"Herding cats" is a reference to trying to get a bunch of extreme individualists with different directions and goals into a group. How obedient are cats?
Just to be clear ... I understand the metaphor. I did not think it was appropriate in the context.

Around here, we always describe leading group rides as herding cats ...

Funny thing, a few weeks ago we saw a guy that trained a mouse to lie down on a cat that was lying down on a dog.

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