Just Because...: A Lovely Day to Walk.... The Cat?

Saturday, July 07, 2007

A Lovely Day to Walk.... The Cat?

A little background: When Shadow was born 9 years ago, she was an indoor kitty for the first 2 years of her life. When she turned 2, we moved to New Hampshire and she became an indoor/outdoor cat. When she moved to Florida a few years ago, she became an indoor kitty again, much to her dismay. Now she lives a pampered life, don't worry about that, but she loves to look outdoors and, in her own vain way, she likes to have people tell her how gorgeous she is. So, today, I decided to break out the old leash & harness and bygone it, we were going for a walk.

Surprisingly, she was pretty well behaved at putting on the harness (which, in itself is surprising since the last time we tried it 3 years ago, she about tried to put me in the hospital). The leash again, no problems. It wasn't until we hit the elevator that I started to realize that this wasn't going to be a piece of cake. Howl, howl and howl came from the throat of the cat as we descended to the first floor followed by a sharp slap across my face. Then, hilarity ensued.

We walked around to the back of the apartment building and encountered people viewing the complex for the first time. Yes, there were funny looks like "She's NOT walking the cat, is she" but c'mon. I know how Shadow is and she'll run into a car, climb a palm tree, fight a lizard - you just never know with this scrapper. She must be leashed and, if they don't like it - we don't need them here anyways. Well, Shadow decided that she was large and in charge and she pretty much walked ME. Here, there and everywhere did we traipse and she refused to walk in dirt - heaven forbid if princess gets dirty. (She's VERY vain). She visited the maintenence building, peeking in all the low ground windows in case she could find someone to tell her how pretty she was.

She then went to the mailbox and wouldn't let me get the mail out of the box - she was too busy trying to find the lizard that escaped and pretty much caused me to drop the blackberry while trying to untangle myself from the leash that she tried to kill me with. Then the cat wanted to circle the mailbox kiosk 5, count 'em 5 times. Again, we went to the back of the building and then she did the funniest thing. She kept trying to go to the first floor apartment by the elevator and howled at me to let her go to her "house". Sadly - she was on the wrong floor - she headbutted the door repeatedly to show her annoyance that I wouldn't unlock the door - but it wasn't our apartment. She didn't understand that fact.

Then, back to the elevator we went and when we got on our floor she trotted briskly to the apartment door looking to get in again. Lucky for her, we had the key. All in all, it's pretty good for her to get out occasionally - don't know if I can survive another ring around the mailbox kiosk/assassinate momma attempt though.

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