#however she is weirdly particular and insistent about Certian Things

[agrimmbrothersgrimmestgoose]

Just made a big ol step in socializing the wiggly macaroni man,

both of my cats are shy and not really handlable i would say, but Mac is def worse. Now he's DEF become more cuddly and lovey dovey toward me and my roommate but everybody else he RUNS away. And when it comes to vets he's not really cooperative at alll. Like, they did Macaroni's blood tests when they neutered him cause he was about to Fully Fight the vet

So I have started a twice a week random routine of Catch The Mac

Cause like,

1) i dont want him to associate being held with The Carrier or The Vet [btw carriers are out all the time and I irreguarlly feed/hide treats in them]

2) eventually, Id like to be able introduce a signal for "its time to get picked up"

Right now Mac's response to even petting with 2 hands is to jump away so we're working on getting Held to just a neutral/positive thing before any kind of command is in there, but I hold out hope to one day have a cat that I can say "Hold!" And he'll let me pick him up.

Thats at least the goal

Given, this *is* the critter who knows to go where I point and specfically identified only the straw as what he wanted from the trash THEN ATTEMPTED TO THEFT THAT SINGLE STRAW

I believe in Macaroni's abilities