I looked pleadingly at mom for hours and hours, finally she said…., “Did you want outside today Shoko?” Well ya!! Mom got the harness and leash and made me dress like a fool before she would open the door.
First we went to the veggie garden and I watered the plants. The Peas were drying up. Mom had let the veggie garden go. 
After I looked under some bushes sniffed at the pretty flowers, scratched at the fence mom decided she better start freezing the red peppers and proceeded to pick me up….very unceremoniously, I hithed my best hith to let her know I was walkin’ here and had places to go. After tying my leash securely on the bistro table leg, off she went to get the red peppers ready to freeze. 
Here I was stuck on the deck unable to get anywhere. I sang to mom for a while and then everything got quiet. Mom came out to see why I was so quiet. 
I headed away from that contraption and I’m free. My first stop was the nip, boy I missed it. I lay on my back and pawed a nip leaf in my mouth. Off to settle under the flowers next. 
Mom decided to leave me be as I was enjoying myself. Good idea. an hour later I was exhausted from all this activity and wanted in.
It felt so good to be in my basket, I fell asleep immediately.
It’s also Athena and Marie’s Caturday Art Artsy Fartsy Caturday so take a gander at the anipals posing for you. 
Mom has used a Fisheye from Pizap. 
Egads, I look odd!
MOM…..GREEN
SHOKO…..BLACK
KALI…..ORANGE
The Canadian Cats 
Concats Shoko, that is super leash-work. I have to admit you walk better on the leash than me… maybe we should do our walks together? I like the cat-art… it looks like a photo from under the sea :o)
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When I have no other choice I will walk on the leash. I like being free and going where I want.
Shoko
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Shoko, I don’t understand why you don’t like getting dressed up. I bring my staff one of my lifevests or harnesses depending on where I want to go…. All too often the answer is ‘no’, but sometimes they say yes!
I, too, am having issues with my staff remembering to water and harvest food, though my purrsonal nip plant is doing very well… One would think that they would be inspired by my example of how to tend the garden. Purrseidon >^.^<
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I like to feel free from restraints. It is hard to get mom to follow mu example. Not that I want her going tickles in the garden….MOL….if only I could work the camera.
Shoko
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Pssst, my furiend, doesn’t your camera have a delayed timer? You set it up, put it on timer, then quick pose in front … great for Sunday Selfies! >^.^<
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You’re right! I do use it for Selfie Sundays. If I catch mom, what a picture for facebook…MOL Thanks for the reminder.
Shoko
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Have a wonderful weekend!
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You have a great weekend also.
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Shokolino, you had your day, and nip, so you are feeling good after that cat dentist visit. The garden is beautiful, so much flowers to take care, you must be busy. Kali looks like…I don’t know…
Kosmo,
a cat in faraway Finland.
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What a day, I was some exhausted afterwards. It was fun after having to stick around the Fort.
Shokolino
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The time in the garden was magical. I loved it.
Shokolino
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Shoko, M is very impressed with how well you stayed in the garden after the big escape from your harness. I would have wondered off into the neighbor’s yards and explored there, which is what I did once when I escaped.. I had a harness like the one you had and M & D caught me backing right out of it. So that ended my wearing that harness. Now I have one that fastens around my belly very securely. Now that I’m in an apartment, I don’t get outside at all, but since we don’t live in the same house anymore, I never ask to go out either.
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Mom has lost confidence in this collar. A tummy fastening one, eh? I won’t tell her about it but she’ll probably read this anyway so I’m hooped.
Shoko
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Pleased you’re feeling better, Shoko, and Kali does look..artistic :)x
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If only mom would stop with the antibiotic meds. They taste horrible. Yuck! Isn’t Kali funny lookin’? MOL
Shoko
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Shouldn’t have too many days left now..just demand tuna simultaneously…Kali looks..um..nice! 🙂
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Not too many more. Monday is the last day of this cwap. Kali looks like a weirdo, if you ask me but she’s happy.
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Lol! You are the best of sisters, allowing Kali to express her more..um…artistic side in such a way 🙂
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I don’t know bout that but she is certainly more artsy than I am. Besides, “better her than me.” I don’t want to look like something that you’d scrape off the bottom of the ocean. MOL
Shoko
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Lol!
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Hilarious! I enjoyed your little fugitive’s short adventure!
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MOL…I scared the cwap outta mom. She thought I’d headed up the Lane but I was content to stay in MY garden.
Shoko
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So glad you are back to your old self,Shoko.The garden looks like an awesome place for kitties!Have a pawsome
weekend!
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I just love my garden. I would sleep in it if mom let me.
Shoko
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OMC your Mom must have panicked when you were not in your harness!!!
The Florida Furkids
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Mom says her heart started to race until she saw the catnip moving and looked closer. Sure enough there I was pulling a nip leaf into my mouth. MOL
Shoko
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Oh Shoko we luv your harness. You shouldn’t have slipped it tho’. Trust us, you fur sure don’t wanna get an infection in your mouthy. Kali, you know we think you look bootyful, but you’re right, you do look odd.
Luv ya’
Dezi and Raena
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I don’t know how the harness came off…it must be faulty! It felt so good to sit in the garden again. Yep, Kali is an odd lookin’ gal today.
Shoko
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Maybe we should change her name from thunder foot to Houdini! 😃 Dad
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I need a magic set first dad. Think of the tricks I can play. MOL
Shoko
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OMGoodness, S. The empty harness is Mom’s worst nightmare. I am happy you stayed right in the garden and didn’t go investigating.
Love and licks,
Cupcake
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Mom was kinda upset until she saw the nip bush moving and looked closer. There I was partaking of the nip. MOL
Shoko
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Shoko, I am glad you felt well enough to go out. And Kali that photo is funny 🙂
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Yep, I’m back to my ThunderPaw self. Kali’s photo is funny.
Shoko
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We’re impressed on how you set yourself free from your harness ! And we’re glad you behaved well, stayed in your garden, and showed your mom that she can trust you when you’re free outside. Purrs
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Thank you Pixie and Zorro. I think mom will have a new harness up on her Christmas list this year. I was very good. I just wanted to feel the dirt on my paws without mom following me around.
Shoko
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It looks like it was a lovely day for a walk Shoko.
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It was just right and I was free as a boid. I was good too, I think the antibiotics make me less energetic or I would have been gone.
Shoko
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See Mom, you didn’t need your harness 🙂 Kali you look like an alien cat!
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I was very good…shocked mom to find I was happy just to sit and relax in the garden. We must keep our hu-mans on their toes. MOL
Shoko
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Shoko I do believe you have a bit of “Houdini” in you escaping from your harness – at least you got to go where YOU wanted to go……I guess you’re feeling perky now after your dental surgery? You look comfy in your basket after coming back inside too…..as for that picture of Kali – all I can say is “EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK”! She looks just a bit like an alien!
Love, Sammy
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Shoko, mew look most dashing in your harness! 🙂
Purrs
Basil & Co xox
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I sure didn’t feel dashing in that thing. I felt much more “dashing” without it my friend.
Shoks
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Shoko, I’m glad you didn’t go far! Of course you had your basket calling to you, so you’d want back in sooner or later.
Kali, that picture of you is too funny.
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I sure enjoyed getting out without anything to hold me back but you’re right, the basket was calling me.
Shoko
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Oh sweetie – you looked awesome outside in the sun… but now I’m making a note that maybe we need to call *you* Houdini. Snorts with piggy laughter. XOXO – Bacon
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MOL There is only one Houdini and he lives at the Thompson’s Castle. I will simply be The Amazing Shokester! MOL
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Deal! XOXO – Bacon
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Mew mew mew see WEE ARE reelated!!!!
Now mee has not gotten out of mee vest yet butt mee has gotten out of thee harness….
An may mee say yur lookin so purrty deer Cuss-inn. mee hopes yur feelin much better now…that nip seems to have werked well…
~~head rubsss~~ Cuss-inn Dharth Henry~~
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We are related! Mom is having second thoughts about my harness as I’m pretty good at vacating it quickly. I am the best I’ve felt in months.
Cuz Shoko
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Do you want mee to ask Timmy Tomkat’ss Pappaw Pete what company hee gotted mee walkin vest frum Shoko??? 😉
Mee knowss it feelss good to bee free tho’…. 😉
**nose kissesss** Cuss-inn xxxxx
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That would be very nice Dharth. Could I see you in your vest again so I know for sure what it looks like. You can model it for us…ya…a strip tease….right down to the furs. hehe
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WoW! Shoko! Yous on leash!?!? Mes glad that yous escaped! That makes yous the purrfect Cat From Hell. And Kali..yous looks like the way yous would look if mes has Nip!
Kisses
Nellie
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I was a bit of a devil wasn’t I? That harness is so restricting though. MOL Mom followed me everywhere….I didn’t like that. Kali does look like a we’d taken a bad trip on the nip….MOL
Shoko
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Kali should sue for that art. MOL! She looks funny. Since when do you need a harness when you go out? You’ve always been free to explore. Is she afraid you’ll run away with Cow Kitty?
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Kali looks so funny, we can’t help but laugh. She sure doesn’t look like a queen. Mom is just following what the vet said. Not likely Cow Kitty and I would run away together…..not till he grows up anyway.
Shoks
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MOL…you are a magician, Shoko, that was really a stunt! Your art looks very…fishy, Kali…blub blub 😀 Pawkisses 🙂 ❤
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Yes, I am the Great Shokodini…MOL Kali is definitely something mom scraped out of the bottom of the ocean…hehe
Shoks
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OK mee will email Timmy An Mistur Pete fur thee linky for thee Vest an mee will get LadyMum to send an email with mee fotoss inn vest!!!
An mee NOT strippin…mee a Buudhist Kat….that iss a no-no Shoko 😉
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Dharth you look great in the vest. Can you get out of it? Just kiddin about the strippin’ Dharth. I don’t have stripper music anyway,…MOL Thanks for the picture cuz.
Shoko
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There iss speshell musick Shoko??? Mee did not know…..
An no mee has tried to get out of thee vest an mee can not. An it iss lite an comfy to wear.
LadyMum emailed Mistur Pete. Then mee went online an here iss thee linky:
http://www.kittyholster.com/
Thee leopard print wood look FAB on you Shoko!!!!
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Thank you Dharth. These vests are interesting. We must ponder them for awhile.
Shoko
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Thee Tiger stripey one iss purrty all so Shoko!!! It wood look FAB on you!!! 😉
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Mom likes the pink vest with flowers. What’s with her? I’m no girlie cat, I’m Shoko the nosy, busy and talkative girl. Kali is the girlie one, Geesh!!
Shoks
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Mee hearss you Shoko!! Mee thott thee Tiger stripe or thee Red Bandana are more YUR style an thee Purrty Inn Pink iss definitelee Kali gurl 😉
Mew mew mew….
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Yu know me Dharth. I don’t know about mom.
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Purrhapss yur Mumma wants you to bee a ‘gurlie’ gurl Shoko??? 😉
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Fat chance…I’m no girlie girl and mom knows that. What you see is what you get….that’s me.
Shoko
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You are such a cool customer dear! Well done to ditch the harness! What a gal!
Einie
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I sure got outta that harness quickly…MOL Mom is now looking at these vests for me as I am a bit of a magician. I proved to mom that I am still *A Cat from hell.* MOL
Shoko
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