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It snowed around six inches/ fifteeen centimetres at our house overnight, and carried on adding a few more during the day. The woods are lovely, light and fluffy.
Before I took myself out for a walk, I decided to introduce the void cats to snow, since it's all new to them. Kuro-kun has always taken a very dim view of anything that makes his delicate little feet the slightest bit chilly or damp, and basically restricts his walks to sunny days when it's at least 60F/15C.
Neko-chan has made his dislike of cold days obvious recently by voluntarily ending his walks after about five minutes outside, so I wasn't at all surprised when Neko decided to emulate Kuro. I opened the door to let him outside and he stretched his nose into the chill, then turned around and jumped straight back up onto the seat where they stand while we put their harnesses on and off. So that was the end of Neko's exposure.
Yami-chan has never voluntarily ended a walk in her life, except in cases of terror when something SUDDENLY NOISY happens. She's definitely made of sterner stuff, because she was very curious about the snow. She licked at it; she bit at it, and batted at blobs of it with her paw. Then she walked out a bit further, where the snow had built up a bit more, and when her foot sank into it up to her elbow, she went, 'OOOh!'
She pulled her foot out of the hole and put it back, then pulled it out and put it back. She tilted her head and peered down into the hole she'd made with her foot. She poked holes in the snow from different angles and checked those too. And then she started digging through the snow. She just wanted to know how it all worked.
Yet somehow when she's in the house, it's cold enough to be classed as torture if she moves more than a foot/thirty centimetres away from a heater....
Before I took myself out for a walk, I decided to introduce the void cats to snow, since it's all new to them. Kuro-kun has always taken a very dim view of anything that makes his delicate little feet the slightest bit chilly or damp, and basically restricts his walks to sunny days when it's at least 60F/15C.
Neko-chan has made his dislike of cold days obvious recently by voluntarily ending his walks after about five minutes outside, so I wasn't at all surprised when Neko decided to emulate Kuro. I opened the door to let him outside and he stretched his nose into the chill, then turned around and jumped straight back up onto the seat where they stand while we put their harnesses on and off. So that was the end of Neko's exposure.
Yami-chan has never voluntarily ended a walk in her life, except in cases of terror when something SUDDENLY NOISY happens. She's definitely made of sterner stuff, because she was very curious about the snow. She licked at it; she bit at it, and batted at blobs of it with her paw. Then she walked out a bit further, where the snow had built up a bit more, and when her foot sank into it up to her elbow, she went, 'OOOh!'
She pulled her foot out of the hole and put it back, then pulled it out and put it back. She tilted her head and peered down into the hole she'd made with her foot. She poked holes in the snow from different angles and checked those too. And then she started digging through the snow. She just wanted to know how it all worked.
Yet somehow when she's in the house, it's cold enough to be classed as torture if she moves more than a foot/thirty centimetres away from a heater....
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Date: 2021-02-14 02:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-14 05:18 am (UTC)Although Neko-chan is sadly one of the nocturnal cats we have ever owned. He does not like to sleep on the bed all night like most of our cats; he wants to stay awake and watch the wildlife and then come into the bedroom and walk on the pillows and scream for attention at 2am and 3am and 4am....
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Date: 2021-02-16 04:33 am (UTC)I opened the slider and let our two dogs outside. Cody, who has a thicker coat, bounded immediately up to his belly in the snow. Bailey, much lower to the ground with thin, skimpy fur went out for about ten seconds before she lifted one front paw, glared at its wetness, and bounced back inside. They were both rubbed down with toasty towels straight from the dryer. No, my dogs are not spoiled at all :)
Do you still have snow on the ground now? Our high today was 3F degrees above 0. Too cold for more snowfall.
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Date: 2021-02-16 05:24 am (UTC)Small dogs are often not fond of the snow, they're too prone to disappearing in it!
Our snow is rapidly melting now. It only barely dipped below freezing last night, and it's been raining on and off all day today. At least I don't have to keep putting warmers on the hummingbird feeders any more...
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Date: 2021-02-16 05:34 am (UTC)You still have hummingbirds? Ours disappeared around November when we got a cold snap. How do you keep your feeders warm?
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Date: 2021-02-16 03:06 pm (UTC)I duct tape one of those little hotties hand warmers to the bottom of the feeders when it's cold enough to freeze sugar water, which fortunately it isn't very often around here.
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