Comments | mouse_rants: it's probably a really good thing I never had children

mouse_rants

it's probably a really good thing I never had children

Apr 19, 2009 21:47

Judging from my current state of cat-induced hysteria, I would have died of a heart attack before the kids reached the age of 5 ( Read more... )

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luna_the_cat April 20 2009, 23:48:57 UTC

My sympathies.

I'm not a parent either, a decision I made around age 15, when I was informed that duct tape was not an acceptable babysitting option.

mouse_rants April 21 2009, 00:00:42 UTC

duct tape! i hadn't thought of that!

meg_and April 22 2009, 01:31:41 UTC

You could put them on kitty runs! ..like dog runs.. leashed and entirely ineffective to a cat who's BORN TO RUN FREE! ... I tried "leashing" up Olivia with her harness and attaching it all to a pole of my garage door rail of my townhouse whilst washing my car recently... well actually the car had already been washed, I just needed to scramble around inside and attempt to dust and polish it up. It was a really gorgeous day and I frequently feel guilty that she's strictly an indoor cat... but within a few moments of me walking away, she sat there listening and looking around intently until something I picked up, or some bag I rustled, was just a bit too much stimulation and she twists and bends in ways I didn't know possible to slip herself out of her harness and run to the back of the garage and wait nervously by the door for me to open it. "Well" I think, "at least she ran in, not out ( ... )