A lot of exciting things have been happening revolving around Nigel and his harness.

He's regularly going outside now, and he generally doesn't *try* to take his harness off anymore, and he's even stopped pulling and swearing when he wants to go somewhere that he shouldn't or can't. Such as under the shed. Where the family of raccoons live. Because ( Read more... )

I tried to harness train Nige again and it was not very successful. I put the harness on him and he walked backwards for a while, but he didn't freak out like the first time. I think that this is good progress: he isn't scared of the harness anymore as an "unknown". But yeah ( Read more... )

Last weekend my dear friend Nigel was acting very strange. When my sister and I both headed back to school for the week, he continued to act strange. My mother was sure that he was acting strange because he disapproved of his harness training and had somehow been psychologically traumatized.

Then they found out that he had been secretly eating about ( Read more... )

And now because I miss my cat, I will post a journal entry IMMEDIATELY AFTER POSTING ONE ABOUT DELICIOUS PIE. But what can I say? Pie < Nigel.

First of all, I tried to harness train him on the weekend and he was extremely affronted. I shouldn't have done it while he was under the influence of catnip. Basically he sailed off of the bed, stood around ( Read more... )

( It's long. )

And then I put it on Nigel. And then there was chaos.

The other day I took my little cousin on a walk, and we went right passed Nigel's vet. They have a little store attached, so we decided to go in and do some harness shopping for him. The lady there showed me the cat harness they had in stock which was WAY too tiny for Nige. She recommended Ren's ( Read more... )

This is really the whole entire complete point of my life: the cat.

We got him from the local Humane Society. He was so brown and striped and cat-like, and so we couldn't say no to him. What we liked best was that when a car drove by the window of the socialization room, he stood up like a meerkat or a gopher to get a better look. We thought that ( Read more... )