Within her first week here, we've gradually introduced her to more and more areas of the house such that she now has the freedom to wander around most of it, but at night, we keep her in the upper hall and the laundry room just so she doesn't get herself into too much trouble while we're not supervising her. This has worked out well, except that the upper hall is not soundproof. So in the predawn hours, when Jada decides it's time to get us out of bed with her dulcet but insistent meows, it's impossible not to hear her.
The good thing, though, is that she does get me out of bed, and I've found that I do my most focused work before D is up -- no distractions, just me and my (small) bowl of cereal, a mug of freshly brewed coffee, and my laptop. And since Jada's become friendlier, she'll accept an invitation to snooze across my knees while I'm typing away. (Yes, she wakes us up not for her breakfast but just to have company.) It's not a bad deal: a warm kitty cuddled against my body in exchange for early morning thesis work. Really, I should thank her for the progress she's helping me make ...
We've also determined that Jada is quite the butterball -- she came to the shelter at nine pounds and entered our care with an additional three! So we've been asked to get her moving to help her avoid any further weight gain (I have great sympathy). D is in charge of exercising Jada as he's really good at enticing her to stalk and pounce on things, and a few days ago, he decided to see how interested she'd be in some Mardi Gras beads. Well, she was interested:
Just not in chasing them.
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Oh what a sweet necklaced cat. I think you can get little play units for cats - or maybe that's just on the Sims :)
We've been considering whether a cat gym (they sell these climbable structures at pet stores) would be suitable, FF. I think a reconnaissance trip is in order ...
I'm with you -- I love the early mornings before anyone else gets up! I don't know anything about cats except that the ones in our neighborhood get lots of exercise stalking and catching mice and moles and chipmunks. Then again, some of those cats are right hefty too. I don't know how you exercise cats. Can you walk them on a leash? I've seen people doing that at our campground.
She likes bling!
A couple of weeks ago, I was walking our dog and came across a lady walking a cat on a leash. I approached her warily (my dog won't eat cats, but he'll run up to them to play), and the lady said, "Oh, we don't run from dogs," basically letting me know that she and her kitty hold their ground. Which they did!
I've never had a cat that did the leash thing.
Sherlock -- some cats are supposedly very good on leashes, but we've been asked not to take any of our fosters outside. Indoor exercise it is ...
GEW -- how impressive! I have a feeling Jada would keep her cool, but I guess it would depend on how much of a barker the dog happened to be. When the vacuum gets too close to her, she gets quite hissy.
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