outdoor  

Um… yeah… of all the strange things…  While he may not leap tall buildings or save people, Mowzer is sure looking like he could.

When you realize that your kitten over-heats as easily as you… what do you do?

Well, first, you pack around ice-bricks to put fresh ones in his carrier for car rides in the heat…. and then… well…. Then you attach a little sun cape to his harness.  

 

He doesn’t mind it any more than he minds just walking, but he has been a bit stubborn walking lately.  I hoped that the great 2 1/2 days in town walking and trotting around Home Depots, and meeting a ton of people and some nice dogs, would make Mowzer more willing to trot around here, but today’s walks were semi-drags instead… and pretty disappointing after how well he did in town.

Maybe keeping the sun off will make things a bit better, but I may just need to move our walks to early mornings and evenings for both of our heat tolerance, since I suffered a little in the sun on our short walks today, too.

The little cape was just quickly clipped on, but I will probably shape it a little better and stitch on some snaps so I can put it on or take it off when needed.  That is if I can get to my sewing stuff enough to find the quick snaps I am sure are in the bottom of a sewing box somewhere.

Until then, I may just pin it to his current harness and use it when it is too hot and sunny... and start using the medium size store-bought harness for nice cool and/or cloudy days.  He is now just big enough for the manufactured "medium" harness to fit.

I am happy to say this "little" boy is growing pretty well so far.  15 weeks old and 4.6 lbs now.  Hope the little tail-biter keeps it up.