• Deacon@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    She can move her hind legs a bit, and even walk a very little bit if she can get her back feet under her, but once she wants to move at any kind of speed she is fully just dragging herself by her front legs.

    So her front legs are incredibly, like ridiculously strong, and her hind legs are quite atrophied, and we have to do manual stretches with her.

    She can move very quickly and she can climb almost anywhere she wants to get to, and where she doesn’t, she’s got her screeches.

    Cats are amazing the way they adapt. I love watching her figure things out.

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        11 hours ago

        Fully, yeah. We live in quite an urban area, but some of my cats do like to go out in the backyard with me to act like they are hunting birds and butterflies, but that’s generally minutes at a time and fairly rare. I did recently install a catio in the small space between my house and my neighbors and she (and almost all of our cats really) loves that.