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[yougetup]

Miles has never tried to take a cat for a walk before, but now he's realizing there's a reason people don't do it that often.

He's felt bad that Snowflake is mostly an inside cat. They live in an apartment, and he and Jess are barely home these days-- he's got school and Spider-Man stuff, she's got Spider-Woman stuff and Freeze-lady girlfriend stuff-- so the cat's on her own a lot of the time too.

So Miles had gotten the idea to buy a harness and try to take his cat, Snowflake for a walk.

Getting her into it had been one battle, and he's got scratches all over his arms from it. Getting her to actually walk is something else.

Standing outside of The Bramford Building, he's holding Snowflake's leash, but the cat has defiantly flattened herself against the sidewalk, refusing to move at all.

"Oh, come on, you're always meowing at the door like you wanna go out," Miles says, "Now we're out."

In response, Snowflake just looks up at Miles pathetically.

I wonder if I can get my money back for the harness if it's already got cat hair on it.

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[yougetup]

"I think it's just apartment cats," Miles says, and he doesn't know that much about cats, but he knows that if he just let Snowflake outside without a leash, she'd probably run away and never come back.

Or maybe she'd just lie on the ground and pretend like being outside is the worst thing in the world. Miles doesn't think it's really worth it to take that chance; it'd suck if he lost Cassie's cat.

"She doesn't get out much."

[theunderdog]

"Yeah, I guess that'd make it hard to just let her out for a while," Brendan says. In a way, it's part of why he's been hesitant to get a pet for Emily and Rosie, though it seems like they're almost constantly trying to get him to do so. They have no yard that they could let a pet into, and that means a lot of time would probably have to go into taking care of it. With as busy as teaching and his daughters keep him, he doesn't want to bank on their not getting bored with a pet within a few weeks, leaving all of the work to him. "Though it doesn't look like walking her is gonna be all that easy, either."