{"id":43542,"date":"2014-07-14T08:05:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T14:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/14\/kittehs-in-the-great-outdoors.html"},"modified":"2014-07-14T11:21:06","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T17:21:06","slug":"kittehs-in-the-great-outdoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/14\/kittehs-in-the-great-outdoors.html","title":{"rendered":"Kittehs in the Great Outdoors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">We experimented a few weekends back with some cat leashes and seeing how the cats would take to going out back (inspired by how Stan and Mary have been doing with Nala). \u00a0Neko and Kunoichi have been strictly indoor cats while we&#39;ve had them (safer and healthier), but we also wanted to give them a chance to explore a bit beyond the back doors.<\/p>\n<p>Neko took to it pretty quickly, though she was still fairly subdued. \u00a0Kunoichi was happiest with just the door open and her sitting at the sill, but she came out a few times, to see what Neko was up to.<\/p>\n<p>Neither seemed to mind their respective leashes, though, as with Nala, wearing one seems to subdue\/ground them a bit.<\/p>\n<p>After these pics, Kay went down into the garden\u00a0with Neko to look around. They had a good time, but there hasn&#39;t been any insistence from the kitties that they want to go out again. So it can be a nice occasional treat for them.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n<p class='gpb-album-title' style='clear:both;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6035916660323090049'>In album 2014-07-14<\/a><\/p>\n<div class='gpb-photo-primary'><img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-SVxpzGFaqTo\/U8PiOccNbqI\/AAAAAAACxTY\/8OruxJn2a2E\/IMG_20140706_173141879.jpg?imgmax=1024' border='0' style='max-width:100%;' \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class='gpb-photo-thumbnail'>\n<div style='height:60px;width:60px;overflow:hidden;margin:5px 5px 0px 0px;display:inline-block;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6035916660323090049\/6035916661523417650'><img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-eyKlatwgVkc\/U8PiOVf3CjI\/AAAAAAACxTY\/f-ObiL4J9u8\/IMG_20140706_174835488.jpg' border='0' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='height:60px;width:60px;overflow:hidden;margin:5px 5px 0px 0px;display:inline-block;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6035916660323090049\/6035916660640253954'><img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-9mx_s8lmB6k\/U8PiOSNTCAI\/AAAAAAACxTY\/6Dw3nE9JOD4\/IMG_20140706_175137573_HDR.jpg' border='0' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='height:60px;width:60px;overflow:hidden;margin:5px 5px 0px 0px;display:inline-block;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6035916660323090049\/6035916660377961746'><img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-xyZ4oxq8qqg\/U8PiOROwxRI\/AAAAAAACxTY\/GP7YQX_51eY\/IMG_20140706_175211290_HDR.jpg' border='0' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='height:60px;width:60px;overflow:hidden;margin:5px 5px 0px 0px;display:inline-block;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6035916660323090049\/6035916661359753490'><img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-dpGiWS6J-Ns\/U8PiOU41uRI\/AAAAAAACxTY\/aii-O6uTex8\/IMG_20140706_175229566_HDR.jpg' border='0' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/AVZdD9LXwak' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We experimented a few weekends back with some cat leashes and seeing how the cats would take to going out back (inspired by how Stan and Mary have been doing with Nala). \u00a0Neko and Kunoichi have been strictly indoor cats while we&#39;ve had them (safer and healthier), but we also wanted to give them a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/14\/kittehs-in-the-great-outdoors.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kittehs in the Great Outdoors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-pets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_20140706_173249605.jpg.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22302,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/21\/tweets-from-2011-08-21.html","url_meta":{"origin":43542,"position":0},"title":"Tweets from 2011-08-21","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 21-Aug-11 10:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Nordstroms Rack: unequal parts aghast at style, aghast at even discounted price, and scoring a deal. # New comic book review podcast in the can: http:\/\/t.co\/t6mfyhi # Cats now formally introduced. 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