Ziva and the Great Outdoors

My mother is a genius.

Or at least that was what I thought earlier today. The jury is out presently. I may still think so tomorrow.

Mom bought me a fairly comfortable harness and a leash. They hardly show up on me. Gotta love black. I wasn’t much of a fan of it yesterday, and am still not entirely happy while she puts it on me. It is ignorable though.

Especially once she pulls out a toy, or the leash as a play thing, or when she took me outside today. I went out yesterday to, but the dog was not ignorable.

Today was brilliant though! At first, I must admit, I didn’t believe her. But she both left the door open and say in the way of it for my own good, and it worked out well. I love it outside!

So, I’m outside. The door is angled. Mom’s blocking me from getting in the open door. So, she’s the reflection, I’m not. Cool huh?

Here I am scaling the stairs.

At last! I made it!

It didn’t take me all that long to be okay with some of the noises. Passing cars and the electric saw down the street soon became nothing but background noise and part of the experience.

Then the landlord’s wife came home and didn’t use the garage entrance to enter her home. If you ask Mom, I flipped out. My opinion? Alright, fine. I flipped out! But I still am insecure in the castle with new people! Outside on day two and random people walking towards me? What would you do?

Mom says with time and practice I will become a seasoned friend to the outside world. She says she can teach me to have less chance of going out without her or the harness. I want to know why she thinks I could ever feel safe out there otherwise! She says she’s gonna start teaching me tricks to go along with more obvious leash behaviors I need to learn and that they’ll help too. I think she’s crazy, but she is Mom, so I’m sure she knows what she is talking about.

In other news, she came back with an iPod touch for me. Uncle Neil is the best! I mean, they say he gave it to Mom, but I know that they know what is Mom’s is mine. It’s fun! Possibly better than the computer! I took me a MySpace style picture. Mom says I’m silly, but I think it’s a great shot!

See! All from above shot and everything!

Sorry, it may have uploaded out order, and possibly at the end of the post, but this is my first entry typed up on the iPod.

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I love my cat. That is all.