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All excellent advice. I wasn't too keen on letting him outside at first as I thought he'd run off but it was my step daughters idea, which surprised me. And good point about the roads, even though we live on a dead-end street, it's a long one with roughly 14-16 homes past us & apparently some of them think our little side street is an Interstate highway. So far, we've kept him to the backyard. Regarding his predator instincts - a story you can appreciate - a few nights ago, Leonard starts pacing back and forth in front of the sliding glass door, meowing and jumping up on the glass. It's pitch black outside so I turn on the light and staring right back at us is a possum. 😲 Fox, coyotes, hawks and owls are the main predators in my area. My neighbor had a small duck pond enclosure with 3 ducks. Well, now 1 duck. Not sure which predator took are of of the other two. The remains of one was left behind but the other just disappeared. I've seen the owl go after groundhogs in the middle of the day & I've seen them swoop by the duck enclosure. Leonard will come when my step-daughter calls him. In fact, he will usually follows her like he's her shadow. Me? I have to shake a bag of cat treats to get him to come to me. Fleas and eating something are my main fears. Every time he'd been spooked, he's made a beeline right to the sliding glass door. Hope that continues.
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First, condolences on your Mets loss. Wait until next year. Second, he did not, he spent most of the night sleeping. He has had a few exhausting days exploring the outside world. As he's been an indoor cat his whole life living in a 1 BR apartment, the closet to being outside was the 2nd floor balcony. Now he's got a 1/2 acre of yard to explore. First time, it took him 5 minutes to ssslllooowwwlly walk thru the sliding glass door. Very jumpy as his senses were overwhelmed. Lasted outside all of 2 minutes when a flock of crows started cawing, which sent him racing inside. Today, had him outside for an hour. Climbed his first tree. Don't let the scared expression fool you, he loved it.
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My trip down to Houston started end of July or more specifically, post# 67,222 which can be found on page # 2689. I was there for almost 2 weeks and posted randomly. But I’m pretty sure you are interested on the Cat-trip back. It was post# 68,297 (page 2732) where I introduced Leonard the Cat to Dani’s thread. Post #68,314 (page 2733) is where I asked for advice on long distance travel and received some excellent feedback in the following pages. That would have been August 9th. The road trip back was over 3 days. I’ll let you take it from there.🙂 The first hour or three, he was not happy. Howled a lot. We kept him in the pet carrier in the back seat & my step daughter sat back there with him. After several hours, he settled in nicely. Stayed in the pet carrier the whole time even though it was wide open & he could've wandered all over the inside of the car. And good luck! How long of a drive?
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I think I posted this before but I always thought the wild-card rounds (or 1st rounds) of any sport are the most exciting based on their unpredictability and the occasional upset. Having said that, a 3 game series is a little too short. One lucky win and a team is a halfway to a sweep while the other is facing elimination. Should be at least a 5 game series and go back to a 154 game regular season so the playoffs don't stretch into November. Hoping your last prediction comes true,🙂
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Regarding wearing a scarf, I also don't like covering my nose even when it's bitter cold outside. Except when I'm skiing & it's cloudy, windy and single digit temperatures. Or if I'm clearing the driveway during a blizzard . But I haven't skied in 10 years and now I wait until the snow has stopped falling before snowplowing/shoveling so, yeah, I never cover my nose. 🙂
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Your sarcasm detector has been off lately. 😉
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Earlier, I credited Buck with instilling a wining & accountable culture with the Mets and I still stand by that statement. However, he does make some questionable postseason decisions. I think he overthinks things & ends up outsmarting himself. He was saving DeGrom for an elimination game, which may be tomorrow. In theory, he was hoping for a 2 game sweep & save DeGrom for the next series so he could start Games 1 & 5 (if necessary). Honestly, on paper, the combo of Scherzer & deGrom look good but Scherzer is 38 years old and DeGrom is coming off an injury-shorten season. Both pitchers seemed to be fading down the stretch, not sure it would have made a difference who started first. But the hitters have to start hitting or this will be a very short series.