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kamomilHeh my poor neighbor. Most awkward conversation possible this morning while waiting for the elevator. I'd seen him and his wife once before, they're fairly new in the building, maybe in their early thirties, I believe she's expecting a child.
So I had my cat on a leash this morning in the hall. Why?
In the past, she didn't like being in her cat crate. At one point she was pretty upset, ie foaming at the mouth upset. So for awhile I had her in a harness, and just let her loose in the car on the way to the vet. I realized that she's less upset if you put her on the (extremely dirty) garage floor and let her hop into the car herself, let her walk along the floor into the elevator, etc. on her own steam. Of course, it takes awhile for this method of transportation, but seemed happier, maybe she felt more fulfilled.
Right now she is in general fairly content in the cat crate, but sometimes she makes some protesting noises, but not like she's in distress. If I let her out of the crate, right in front of our door, she figures out "that's where I live!" and makes a beeline. I guess she smells the place and it smells familiar etc.
Today, coming back from the vet, I figured, hey, she's indoors and sleeping on the couch all the time, maybe I'll make her life a bit more exciting by having a little walk down our hall. I wondered if I could teach her where our door is, in case she gets out accidentally. It wasn't a really well thought-out plan.
So my neighbor comes out of his apt. and has to step around me and the cat in the hall. He comments, "I've never seen a cat on a leash". I say, "I know it seems pretty ridiculous..." trying to defuse the weird moment with a blatant truth, trying to imagine explaining my vague reasons why the cat was on a leash, in the 10 sec before his elevator arrived. He said, "I didn't say it was ridiculous" sounding like a decent kind human being. I said "sometimes she's bored".
Hopefully my next conversation with these neighbors is more sane.
The family down the hall has at least a 2 year old little girl, there was another one running around but I'm not sure if she belongs in that apt. or not. One day, we were chitchatting in the hall, and I think I was coming back from the vet or something, anyhow, I cracked the door open so the girl could see the cat, and the parents commented that she'd never seen a cat before, so I hauled Deena out and held her so the little girl could pet her fur. Aww! My other neighbor - a lady in her 50s I guess - was there too and commented that the cat is my pet and that I leave the radio on for her so she's not lonely, and the dad of the family kind of smiled. So I have a hallway of some nice people. :D
So I had my cat on a leash this morning in the hall. Why?
In the past, she didn't like being in her cat crate. At one point she was pretty upset, ie foaming at the mouth upset. So for awhile I had her in a harness, and just let her loose in the car on the way to the vet. I realized that she's less upset if you put her on the (extremely dirty) garage floor and let her hop into the car herself, let her walk along the floor into the elevator, etc. on her own steam. Of course, it takes awhile for this method of transportation, but seemed happier, maybe she felt more fulfilled.
Right now she is in general fairly content in the cat crate, but sometimes she makes some protesting noises, but not like she's in distress. If I let her out of the crate, right in front of our door, she figures out "that's where I live!" and makes a beeline. I guess she smells the place and it smells familiar etc.
Today, coming back from the vet, I figured, hey, she's indoors and sleeping on the couch all the time, maybe I'll make her life a bit more exciting by having a little walk down our hall. I wondered if I could teach her where our door is, in case she gets out accidentally. It wasn't a really well thought-out plan.
So my neighbor comes out of his apt. and has to step around me and the cat in the hall. He comments, "I've never seen a cat on a leash". I say, "I know it seems pretty ridiculous..." trying to defuse the weird moment with a blatant truth, trying to imagine explaining my vague reasons why the cat was on a leash, in the 10 sec before his elevator arrived. He said, "I didn't say it was ridiculous" sounding like a decent kind human being. I said "sometimes she's bored".
Hopefully my next conversation with these neighbors is more sane.
The family down the hall has at least a 2 year old little girl, there was another one running around but I'm not sure if she belongs in that apt. or not. One day, we were chitchatting in the hall, and I think I was coming back from the vet or something, anyhow, I cracked the door open so the girl could see the cat, and the parents commented that she'd never seen a cat before, so I hauled Deena out and held her so the little girl could pet her fur. Aww! My other neighbor - a lady in her 50s I guess - was there too and commented that the cat is my pet and that I leave the radio on for her so she's not lonely, and the dad of the family kind of smiled. So I have a hallway of some nice people. :D
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Date: 2007-02-09 08:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-10 05:40 pm (UTC)It'd be handy to have her used to the leash for when someone pulls the fire alarm and we all troop down to the lobby to wait for the fireman to turn it off :P
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Date: 2007-02-10 09:04 am (UTC)I often have the same kind of conversations, where I say something silly, and afterwards think: THAT's what I should have said... Grrr...
Happy Birthday, BTW! ;-)
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Date: 2007-02-10 08:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-10 08:25 pm (UTC)Oh, and sorry about the wrong day... I haven't had any sense of which day of the month it is, for the past week or more. And I blame Semagic, my offline LJ client, for giving early notifications