. . . in the distant, early morning . . .

Mali’s first outdoor adventure

I wrote before how how Mali gets to go outside.  Friday morning I picked up a tube of Advantage to keep the fleas off of her, and Friday afternoon we took a lunch break to explore outside.

She is a bit stressed in this video, but if you watch as the videos get on, she really starts to get quite full of herself and into the adventure.  Grass remains her least favorite surface, but that’s ok.  The initial stress is worth the long-term payoff in terms of quality life since she is enjoying the outdoors now.

Here are the other videos I took on the iPhone as I need to charge my PlaySport.  She started out with “no legs” syndrome; but since we were outside already she started to explore.

I did take her out today with the dogs, and she was following Elka around for quite awhile.  She gained a lot of confidence with her dogs around, actually. 

Elka was very gentle with Mali outdoors and I’m wondering if this will actually improve that relationship.  No matter how good Elka is when I’m right next to Mali, though, Mali can never be running around out there with Elka loose: Elka’s prey drive is too high, and she’d kill Mali before I could do anything.  I’m confident of their interactions with Mali harnessed and near me, but never otherwise.

I’m really happy I chose to do this, it will really improve Mali’s quality of life.  She’s enjoying exploring, enjoying laying out in the sun and she stretches to feel the wind.  An indoor-only life must get dull after awhile and I’m happy I can give Mali this safe chance to explore and enjoy the great outdoors.

-Lisa, on June 26, 2010 at 12:44 pm .::. Comment (0)

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