Nostalgia update!
Oct. 26th, 2010 08:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lexMy video camera broke. :( That means I can only take crappy webcam pictures now. Dangit. I miss having a camera.
So, today began the Grand Cat-Walking Adventure! Just a few days after I got her from the shelter, I started getting Nostalgia used to a harness. She chews on it a bit but does quite well in it, moving easily and without complaint. Well. In one harness. In the nice vest-type harness she will only move when no one is looking. XD At the beginning of this month I introduced the leash, which... she was less than thrilled about, ahaha. The clip is a heavy weight on her back and she despises that. But she still moves around a little with it on, just mostly crouches and stares balefully and wants to know what the fuck I think I'm doing.
So anyway! I have not been able to exercise her as much as I want to the last week or so, and it was totally frigging lovely today, so I put on the harness and leash and picked her up and - gasp! - stepped outside. And set her down. And she stared and sniffed and stared and sniffed and then walked a few steps and stared and sniffed, and basically went HOMG HOMG HOMG the whole time. XD I petted her a lot and encouraged her to walk a bit and picked her up just to be sure she wouldn't flip out, and she did wonderfully. Cats on leashes fall into one of three camps: flip the fuck out, forget how to stand, or walk successfully. Since she did neither of the first two, I think that as long as I go easy she'll end up in the third camp. :3 We spent maybe five minutes outside, and then she looked a bit overstimulated so I brought her in, petted her until she was purring and licking my hand, took off the leash, more pettings, took off the harness, more pettings... I am still debating whether walks outside of the yard will happen. A fair number of people around here walk their dogs off the leash, which is actually illegal here. But chilling out in the front yard could be reasonable, and sniffing around the back yard is fair game. :3 Cat on a leash! Who knew! I am tickled pink that she appears to be okay with it. Very, very glad I started the harness training so early. It will make a lot of things easier.
Also, she helps with my homework:
And I now have the best desk setup ever:
The bird feeder is right outside that window, and birds perch on the sill to eat seed I scatter there. There is nothing quite so magical as seeing the stained-glass beauty of a chickadee's back from a foot away. (And then Nostalgia pounces with a window-shaking crash...)
So, today began the Grand Cat-Walking Adventure! Just a few days after I got her from the shelter, I started getting Nostalgia used to a harness. She chews on it a bit but does quite well in it, moving easily and without complaint. Well. In one harness. In the nice vest-type harness she will only move when no one is looking. XD At the beginning of this month I introduced the leash, which... she was less than thrilled about, ahaha. The clip is a heavy weight on her back and she despises that. But she still moves around a little with it on, just mostly crouches and stares balefully and wants to know what the fuck I think I'm doing.
So anyway! I have not been able to exercise her as much as I want to the last week or so, and it was totally frigging lovely today, so I put on the harness and leash and picked her up and - gasp! - stepped outside. And set her down. And she stared and sniffed and stared and sniffed and then walked a few steps and stared and sniffed, and basically went HOMG HOMG HOMG the whole time. XD I petted her a lot and encouraged her to walk a bit and picked her up just to be sure she wouldn't flip out, and she did wonderfully. Cats on leashes fall into one of three camps: flip the fuck out, forget how to stand, or walk successfully. Since she did neither of the first two, I think that as long as I go easy she'll end up in the third camp. :3 We spent maybe five minutes outside, and then she looked a bit overstimulated so I brought her in, petted her until she was purring and licking my hand, took off the leash, more pettings, took off the harness, more pettings... I am still debating whether walks outside of the yard will happen. A fair number of people around here walk their dogs off the leash, which is actually illegal here. But chilling out in the front yard could be reasonable, and sniffing around the back yard is fair game. :3 Cat on a leash! Who knew! I am tickled pink that she appears to be okay with it. Very, very glad I started the harness training so early. It will make a lot of things easier.
Also, she helps with my homework:
And I now have the best desk setup ever:
The bird feeder is right outside that window, and birds perch on the sill to eat seed I scatter there. There is nothing quite so magical as seeing the stained-glass beauty of a chickadee's back from a foot away. (And then Nostalgia pounces with a window-shaking crash...)
