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Rumi’s Life Jacket
Rumi’s water life vest just arrived in the mail today. I decided to go with a design from Ruff Wear. I liked that their design used actually flotation material rather simply air inflation and also that it had a handle to haul him out of the water if he ever got into trouble. (Thank you to the Coming Unmoored readers who made this suggestion!)
I’m trying to ease the poor little guy into it slowly. Rumi was showing signs of stress as it went on, so for his first wearing, it stayed on just long enough for me to grab a quick photo with my iPhone and for him to receive some encouraging cuddling and a treat for suffering through such indignity.
I think I’m going to have to get him to start associating wearing the vest with getting to do cool things like I had to do with his halter.
I promise more pictures once he starts to get a little more comfortable in it. Clearly, I need to adjust some of the straps so it fits a little better on him. But I think it should work with a couple of tweaks.
Rumi’s water life vest just arrived in the mail today. I decided to go with a design from Ruff Wear. I liked that their design used actually flotation material rather simply air inflation and also that it had a handle to haul him out of the water if he ever got into trouble. (Thank you to the Coming Unmoored readers who made this suggestion!)
I’m trying to ease the poor little guy into it slowly. Rumi was showing signs of stress as it went on, so for his first wearing, it stayed on just long enough for me to grab a quick photo with my iPhone and for him to receive some encouraging cuddling and a treat for suffering through such indignity.
I think I’m going to have to get him to start associating wearing the vest with getting to do cool things like I had to do with his halter.
I promise more pictures once he starts to get a little more comfortable in it. Clearly, I need to adjust some of the straps so it fits a little better on him. But I think it should work with a couple of tweaks.
LOL When I first read this I thought you meant you were testing the vest out by putting him in the water in it!!!! Whew glad I went back and read it. LOL
Is that a smile on his face?
You’ll have him waterskiing in no time!
Considering /I/ don’t water ski, that would be quite the trick.
How has this worked out. We are about to invest in same project. What pitfalls may we face.
Our cats spook easily but love to be in our company and with a boat large enough to spend nights on, I would like to interest them, one at a time.
Thanks,
Chcuk