Crusty has resting homicide face.
Hello friends, and welcome to another video.
Today we're gonna be doing something
a little bit dangerous...
We're gonna be walking our elderly cat crusty
for the very first time.
Tyler: He's very old, Safiya: Yeah,
Tyler: he's no spring chicken. Safiya: no, he's a winter chicken.
So Crusty's a feral adoption,
which means that he was once a feral cat
who kind of showed up outside of our door,
and, uh, now he lives with us.
He was a drifter.
Safiya: Uh, what do they call them? Tyler: A streetwalker.
So when we took him to the vet
for him to get his vaccines,
because we thought he was a kitten
because of his size, adorable meow,
and the fact that he still had his balls.
The vet took one look at him, and was like
"This cat is 15,
he's 75 in cat years,
and oh,
he had a vasectomy instead of getting neutered.
That's why it looks like he has his balls."
So when Crusty was a feral
and we just started feeding him,
he just started to just plant himself
in front of our door every single night,
he basically became our cat right away.
Over time we got more comfortable with him,
we let him in.
So we were like 'I think he's our cat now,'
and so we took him with us when we decided to move.
Basically, Crusty has been an indoor cat
since like last fall,
and he's loving it inside.
Tyler: This is his retirement community.
This is his Florida.
Over the last couple of weeks,
he's kind of... getting a little restless.
Getting into weird nooks, like...
fighting bottle caps and dust mites
and old Cheerios on the ground.
Tyler: He's been shadow boxing with me.
He sees your iPhone wire,
he is going in for the kill.
He scratches and lifts into the mouth...
The final straw towards
wanting to walk him outside
was noticing him, on the balcony,
crouched, ready to pounce
to our neighbor's balcony.
So we wanted to find a way that Crusty
could still have some outdoors time
without necessarily making a leap
across a five story building.
And we've seen videos, and read articles
about people walking their cats
and it seems like some people are on the
"Don't try it, I just dragged my cat around
for half an hour" train,
and a lot of people, though, are also on the
"Hey, this was a great idea,
and it gave my indoor cat
some good exercise and some good fresh air
(with a little bit of practice)
but it was good"
So Tyler went to PetSmart and picked up
a specific cat-walking harness.
The instructions say to put him in the harness
a couple of times before trying to take him
out on the leash.
We want to see where we can take Crusty walking.
We'd love to take him to this outdoor mall nearby
that we love, that's kind of like a park
without the coyotes,
but we want to make sure he can handle it
so we're gonna take him around the apartment today
as like a dress rehearsal.
He's uh, out yet?
Oh, yeah he is.
Hey buddy, how you doin'?
Oh, meow, man?
:3
:3 :3
Let's do it.
Safiya: Oh my God, he just gave me such a nervous look.
Tyler: He knows there's somethin' up.
Tyler: 'Aight, let's go buddy.
Safiya: You have the keys?
Tyler: ...
Tyler: No.
Tyler: Yeah?
Tyler: C'mon.
Safiya: At first I was like
"Oh no, is this too much for him?"
Crusty: *meow* o.o
Tyler: I think that when he was right outside
the door to the apartment,
he was a little bit like
"Did I lose apartment privileges?"
Safiya: Maybe we should go further away from the apartment.
Tyler: Yeah
Crusty: *meow* >_>
Tyler: Hey, what's up buddy, come on
It seems the further away we get from our apartment,
the calmer he gets.
I think he was nervous about leaving the apartment,
and now he's a little curious.
Here we go!
We got some walkin' action.
Tyler: He liked to have one of his sides
accounted for, and he also
liked me walking a little bit closer to him
and that's actually where we got the best
sort of like "Crusty trot".
Right? Where he's sort of like
"Okay, I know what's on my right side,
I know you're on my left side,
you're okay.
I don't know if I like you anymore, but you're okay."
Safiya: Once he got into places that had
more shrubbery and places to hide,
he was actually pretty chill.
He was kinda just like looking around.
Oh, I think he's liking it, babe!
Tyler: Yeah, I think he loves it, actually.
Every once in a while, he was like chugging along
just like, you know, the Little Engine That Could,
then he would like stop, and just be like
Crusty: *meow* O_O
Tyler: Hey!
Oh, shoot...
B-cakes, let's go!
I think we gotta go where he goes.
Safiya: There were times when he was walking kind of happily.
Tyler: He's goin' that way, for sure!
I actually do think after a little while,
he got pretty used to it.
Tyler: Part of, like, walking a cat so far has been
it's not as much "walking with him",
as much as it is getting him outside.
There was definitely a moment where he
reached his limit and he was like
"I don't want to do this anymore..."
Crusty: *meow* ;_;
Safiya: See, this is like, uh,
"Get me out of here, mom!"
and so Tyler picked him up
and carried him back to the apartment.
Even though, like, there there were definitely
some ups and downs,
kind of walking him around the apartment complex
we thought that he had passed
a minimum threshold of liking it.
Like, it seemed like he liked it Tyler: Definitely.
Safiya: And also, after we came back
to the apartment,
he seemed kind of okay with it.
When all else fails, he is totally okay
being carried in Tyler's arms,
so if that's how we spend tomorrow,
that's okay too.
Safiya: So it's time to go to the mall
Tyler: Today's going to be the real test.
Crusty, think you can pull it off?
He's not fighting at all.
Safiya: He's like, fine with it.
We got crusty to chill, pretty much.
He was a little bit anxious sitting by himself,
but then I put him on my lap, and
now he's just chillin'.
When we got to the mall, I was honestly nervous at first.
I was definitely nervous too.
I was like, "Can we do this? Is this gonna be,
are we gonna get kicked out of the mall?
Like, is Crusty just gonna freak out and run away?"
We've seen so many people walk around this mall
with their dogs in their hands,
on leashes, off of leashes,
so I'm interested to see if anyone gets mad at us
for trying to walk our cat.
Tyler: Well I mean like if people are allowed
to bring their Paris Hilton dog to malls,
it's like "Why can't we bring Crusty to the mall?"
Safiya: It was pretty empty,
which is perfect for the cat walking.
He does not like the fountain.
Everybody likes the fountain, but not Crusty.
Safiya: The harness was a little bit loose the first day,
but it just took some adjusting
Tyler: Yeah. Safiya: so it wasn't riding down his legs.
We put him down and the first place
he wanted to go to was the Cheesecake Factory.
Crusty!
Tyler: Which actually forwards the conspiracy theory
that Crusty grew up in a dumpster
outside of a Cheesecake Factory.
One thing we learned from the first day
is that you can't pull Crusty, like
he really has to want to walk.
What would happen was we would sort of
carry him from one location to the next,
put him down, see if he liked it.
If he wouldn't move, we'd pick him up
and try another spot.
So we put him down next to the grass...
He did not want much to do with the grass.
He did want everything to do with
the sushi restaurant next to it, though.
Now he's outside of the burger, beer and ramen place.
I think he was just smelling the food
and he was like
"That's where I want to go."
Tyler: "There's plenty of cover.
Safiya: Exactly. Tyler: There's like, places I can hide,
there's a fence I can sneak through."
He's like, reverting back to
his "street alley cat instincts".
"I need to go there. They have a food disposal.
I'm also a food disposal."
So we wanted to see where else
Crusty might want to go.
Safiya: He did not want to go to the Apple store...
Tyler: No. Safiya: He didn't really want to go see a movie,
he didn't really want to go to Urban Outfitters,
um, he felt medium about Sprinkles.
They have a vegan cupcake!
Crusty, we know you're a vegan.
Safiya: Crusty is the furthest thing from a vegan.
Tyler: We all know Crusty's pretty environmental, I mean...
Safiya: I don't know that he wants a Tesla...
Tyler: He doesn't like Tesla?
I think he's thinking about it!
Safiya: Oh no, he's going for this... pipe!
Tyler: He's not going down that pipe.
Oh, no! He's thinking about it.
Safiya: He did not want to go to Sephora...
Tyler: No. But the people at Sephora loved him.
They started taking photos of Crusty
from the entrance of Sephora.
He is quite the hit right now...
I don't know if Crusty, likes the mall,
but the mall likes Crusty.
Tyler: Yeah, they love him.
Safiya: They LOVE the cat being out.
Tyler: There are more cat people
out there than you think.
There are just more opportunities
for people to be dog people in public.
Safiya: People kind of were down for the idea
of the cat getting walked.
In fact, one person was like
"Yeah, looks like he's getting a little plump,
he needs a walk."
Yeah, no, they... They're right.
You know, I've seen examples of people like
dragging their cat along, and like
that doesn't seem cool to me.
I didn't want him to be scared or stressed.
I think there was a few moments where he was like
"This is a lot."
Loves a good bush, man.
Are we done with the mall, you think?
Yeah.
He handled this really well,
and I got such like, cat-daddy jitters
every time Crusty would start, like,
walking by himself, I'm like
"This is the best!"
I think that walking Crusty
was a moderate success.
I think that this actually does
do a good job of getting him out,
getting sort of his angst out,
getting some exercise,
as long as he doesn't
fully sneak into the Cheesecake Factory
and eat their food.
Like he's been less sort of feisty,
less scratchy.
He doesn't actually mind the harness
or the leash, really.
It's more just the new environments, I think.
Tyler: Yeah. It's gonna be on a cat-to-cat basis,
like with Crusty, Crusty's pretty unique,
because he was a feral,
and he lived outside for so long,
he does have a degree of that confidence
and even for him,
he got to a place where he was like
"This isn't that cool."
I don't know that we'll be doing this all the time,
but I would definitely do this again.
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