{"id":8401,"date":"2025-02-02T10:56:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T17:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/?p=8401"},"modified":"2025-03-01T18:36:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T01:36:06","slug":"welcome-to-the-outside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/02\/welcome-to-the-outside\/","title":{"rendered":"welcome to the outside &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"448\" src=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-02-at-12.44.58\u202fPM-600x448.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8402\" style=\"width:717px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-02-at-12.44.58\u202fPM-600x448.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-02-at-12.44.58\u202fPM-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-02-at-12.44.58\u202fPM-768x574.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-02-at-12.44.58\u202fPM-1536x1148.png 1536w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-02-at-12.44.58\u202fPM-2048x1530.png 2048w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-02-at-12.44.58\u202fPM-640x478.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So at last the kittens get to go outside! The adventurous one, Lily, took to it immediately, but the other two were terrified, squeaking, their tiny hearts pounding &#8230; for all of five minutes. Within ten, they started exploring, and within twenty, they were actively playing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"415\" src=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-02-at-12.46.42\u202fPM-600x415.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8403\" style=\"width:717px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-02-at-12.46.42\u202fPM-600x415.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-02-at-12.46.42\u202fPM-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-02-at-12.46.42\u202fPM-768x532.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-02-at-12.46.42\u202fPM-1536x1064.png 1536w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-02-at-12.46.42\u202fPM-640x443.png 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-02-at-12.46.42\u202fPM.png 1814w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For now, we&#8217;ve turned this courtyard into a catio, because these kittens have never been outside, have almost no experience other animals other than friendly humans and our scared indoor cats, and still are pretty tiny. Our property, on the other hand, is crisscrossed by other cats, occasionally aggressive turkeys, and a fox willing to take on prey twice its size. There&#8217;s also a hawk, which my wife is concerned might carry off the cats; as they get larger, I am skeptical, but there&#8217;s no need to risk it until they get more street-smart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"396\" src=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-02-at-12.54.40\u202fPM-600x396.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8404\" style=\"width:717px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-02-at-12.54.40\u202fPM-600x396.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-02-at-12.54.40\u202fPM-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-02-at-12.54.40\u202fPM-768x507.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-02-at-12.54.40\u202fPM-1536x1013.png 1536w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-02-at-12.54.40\u202fPM-2048x1351.png 2048w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-02-at-12.54.40\u202fPM-640x422.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Be patient, Lilipadski. Your time will come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-the Centaur<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pictured: Cats in the catio, AKA the courtyard we call &#8220;The French Quarter.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So at last the kittens get to go outside! The adventurous one, Lily, took to it immediately, but the other two were terrified, squeaking, their tiny hearts pounding &#8230; for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8405,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8401\/revisions\/8405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}