Zoomies of course! Otherwise known as happy run around super jumpy time is what I call it (cats aren’t good at acronyms) .
Doesn’t everyone get zoomies from time to time? Aaah as human adults you might not understand what I mean, let me explain.
Zoomies is what most happy cats get, just because I’m blind doesn’t make me any different, I get zoomies too. From my own personal experience zoomies is how I (and most other cats) express happiness, excitement, energy, love and joy. With my new life I’ve got bucket loads of all of these emotions, what’s not to be happy about? I’m in my forever home with my forever family, life is good.
Zoomies can also mean carefree, freedom, safety and security and now I have no more worries in the world, meaning I am completely carefree. It’s also a way to burn off excess energy built up after a hard day of sleeping, sunbathing and watching cat tv – in my case this is ‘watching’ the birds and other nature outside from the balcony. Even when the outside is shut off when mummy and daddy are out at work I can still hear everything that is going on through the windows. Watching through the sounds of nature all day makes me want / need to hunt and catch chase and catch it makes me so excited, I am after all a street cat by birth. This instinct turns into zoomies when mummy and daddy get home as I’m just sooooo excited every time they get home. I miss them when they’re not here with me.
Some zoomies last for just a few minutes as it is such a burst of energy, runnning and jumping for joy, racing up and down the furniture or scratching post. I have so much energy that I have zoomies for most of the time mummy and daddy are home. They come in varying degrees but I’m active all the time. This is where the catification comes in as it gives me plenty of places to climb up, on and around to burn off energy.
I have so much energy that mummy decided that I needed another outlet to burn off all three excess and give me somewhere to have my zoomies on a bigger scale, this new outlet came in the form of the great outdoors. Before I could explore there great outdoors there were a few things mummy and daddy had to do to prepare me (and themselves) for my next big adventure.
Today a present arrived for me I don’t often get many presents (not just for me anyway, normally presents are something to share between me, Peppar & Mia but this time it was just for me. I helped mummy open it.
Inside was something very special mummy and daddy had bought me a harness. I didn’t know what a harnesses was but because mummy and daddy bought it it must be something quite special. I was very excited so I let mummy put the harness on. Well it wasn’t what I expected at all it was horrible, I don’t like it mummy take it off me it’s making my neck hurt, it’s choking me. I started to wonder what mummy had done so I sat down on the floor in protest and refuse to move until she took it off. Mummy kept saying “come on Jenny give it a try, if you try it I’ll give you treats.” Well, I didn’t want treats I just wanted to harness off – I didn’t like it, I decided to protest on the living room floor until mummy took it off. This was my first feline temper tantrum in my new home. I didn’t really know what was going on as my humans never do things to make me upset and have a temper tantrum – what were they thinking? Anyway my ploy worked mummy took the harness off and I was free again, I jumped up and went off to play. I didn’t really think anything more of it but a few days later another parcel arrived for me and again I was very excited. What had they been buying for me this time? Little did I know that they had found a new harness for me, this time she again, very gently put it on. This one is much smaller as although I’m a fully grown cat I’m only little and the smallest of the three of us so I need a little harness. This one was much better I didn’t feel like I was being choked and it gave me the freedom to move around, I liked it straight away.
Over the next few days and weeks mummy would put my harness on from time to time and I would wear it around the flat. I’m not really quite sure why she did this but I let her have her fun. Sometimes I can’t quite figure out you humans. I didn’t quite realise what the significance was of the harness but then…
Something amazing happened. I’ve had a couple of amazing things happen in my life; 1st Anna finding me; 2nd finding my forever home and 3rd what happened today, we went out for my first walkies!😺
Jenny’s Story 