Eventually you learn to keep walking. Yeah you kick a cat occasionally, but I'm pretty sure that's a fetish for some of them because they keep doing it even after being kicked.
We had a low porch with a little flower bed in front of it and I used to park on the opposite side of the house then the steps up so I would jump over the flowerbed instead, one day the cat sprinted as soon as I jumped and lined itself up perfectly underfoot. It took my whole weight and have no idea how the cat didn't die that day... It legit never came within 30 yards of me after that