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Cole stood up, and sat down his orange abessinier cat Elena on the ground to get a better view of the obstacle course they had to complete. "Come on Elena!" he called behind him as he started to slowly walk towards the starting line. Only Elena wasn’t coming she had curled up in an orange ball on to top of the haybale.
It was warm and comfy here where her hooman had sat and she wasn’t going to move. After scratching a little with her paws on the hay, Elena closed her eyes to go to sleep even if it was hard in this racket of voices.
Cole had almost come to the starting line when he realized that Elena wasn’t with him. Looking behind him, he saw her lying on the hay bale contentedly. With a small sigh he walked back to her, stopping to fill his left pocket with treats and the other with some different toys. Lastly he chose a harness before going back to his cat. At Elenas side he carefully started to put the harness on around her neck and stomach. With it safely set Cole pulled out a tuna treat that he dangled in front of her nose. "Come on Elena, let’s go race!"
Elena felt how her hooman fastened something around her neck and stomach, but she didn’t move. She was trying to sleep. The smell of TUNA though caught her full interest. Lifting her head up, quick as a bolt, she sniffed the air. Where was the juicy tuna? Straightening up on all fours, she reluctantly jumped down from the bale and followed after her hooman.
At the starting line Cole leaned down to give Elena her tuna treat. "Here, can you help me score the best time now? It will be fun. I promise." Pulling out a big cat toy that hang from a fishing stick and to Cole’s ears didn’t smell totally awful he coaxed with it. "Let’s go Elena!"
Tuuuuuuuuuuna, yummy. Licking her mouth with her tongue in satisfaction Elena, looked around for more tasty treats. None were in sight, but there was a rat on stick. She didn’t like toys on sticks but her hooman didn’t know that. She followed him though towards the hoops.
"Jump through the hoops Elena, Come on!" Cole encouraged as he jangled with the rat stick and also pulled out another tuna treat that he waved around with. Anything to get her running.
Elena jumped through the first hoop without effort and saw Cole running beside her and then she suddenly skidded to halt in front of the black hoop and didn’t budge an inch.
Cole muttered something unhearable as he approached his cat, trying to discern why she had stopped. Leaning down to scratch her behind her ears, he heard some content purring. "Just one more hoop Elena then we are free of them."
Elena, kept purring for a little while before she jumped through the hoop and continued to run over the seesaws beams without needing Cole’s encouraging or coaxing. Was it too much to ask for some show of appreciation like a scratch or a tuna treat along the way? Falling down on her side for more hooman attention.
"That was awesome Elena!" Cole said with delight and equal happiness as he sat down on the grass to scratch Elena on her belly, knowing full well that it was a risk that he’d get bitten. Throwing her a treat or two he asked "Wasn’t this fun? Shall we complete the course now?"
Meowing Elena tried to bite onto Cole’s hand, but she kept missing it. The treats distracted her. Munching on the delicious tuna, she had snatched Elena decided to give into her dear hoomans wishes. She could be a good cat and complete the last hurdles. Straightening up, she was ready to get going.
Cole got the hint and with the rat toy he demonstrated. “You have to weave through next these hurdles, like in zig-zag motion….” Waving with the toy stick his cat got moving.
What was the hooman wanting her to do with the sticks? She was a CAT not an alpine skiier. Elena got busy licking her paws until that toy got waved in front of her nose again. It smelled so nice so Elena got moving elegantly through the stickiesss. Weave, Weave, Weave.
"Perfect! We’re done Elena!"Cole cried out happily, as they had completed the course and he could scoop up his cat into his arms to give her a large hug and some well deserved scratching. Remembering the treats in his pockets, he pulled out a handful that he held out to her.
Elena, was in heaven. She got to be cuddled and got treats after completing a course. No other cat had it much better.
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