Daily Photo: One Happy Kitty

Mimi is never so happy as when she’s out in the yard, as you can see by her “happy tail”. She’s so short that I can’t get a good photo of her face without flowers in the way, but perhaps that’s how she wants it.

I keep a breakaway bell collar on her all the time even in the house—I like the happy little sound and I can always keep track of her, and she seems to like it to since it means we’ll be going out in the yard again some time. When she hasn’t been outside often enough, she takes it off, usually when she’s in the room with me, and looks at me. Mimi knows how to make a statement.

When we go out, she wears that as well as another nylon collar to which I attach a long leash. She wasn’t too keen on this at first; after all, my yard was her hunting ground when she was raising babies outdoors and she looks at me as if I’m out of my mind—get real, human, I know this yard better than you. But she puts up with it and my silly human fears about her potentially disappearing forever. I may hold the end of the leash or stand on the end of it if my hands are occupied, or I may let it trail along behind her. In any case, we’re getting accustomed to this. Cookie, Stanley, Moses, Sally, Kublai never needed a leash, but Namir did at first, and after a while he understood and stayed with me and Cookie.

She does enjoy being a model, though.

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