I used to have an old man cat that was like that. He wanted to sniff everything that came in the house; not super urgently but he was always interested. It got hard for him to walk eventually and my girlfriend would always poke fun at me for carrying him around and holding him up to each new thing so he could investigate. He seemed happy about it though, he never stopped being interested in investigating

[–] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What a warm, loving thing to do for your companion. He got to keep some normalcy with the added comfort of being held by his person. Thank you for sharing, that made me happy.

[–] Gustephan@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

:) I am glad that brought you a smile. I'm sure Chizz would love to know he's still making people smile through stories about him. He was a real one

[–] JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I used to do this with my old girl. I would carry her in my arms around the garden and she would indicate by leaning if she wanted to go towards something.

She used to make me spend ages standing under trees with her. I think in her mind we were stalking birds.