Drama Queen on a Leash

Drama Queen on a Leash

🌼 Date: Saturday, April 18, 2026

⚡ Energy: Cozy but chilly

💗 Status: Puppy Mom Mode Activated

🥰 Outlook: Small wins count

Ahhh… it was so nice to sleep in this morning!

Even though for the past eight years I had to get up at the ass crack of dawn (AKA 4:30am) for work, I am still not a fan of these 8:00am appointments on the other side of town.

So today I took full advantage of having no appointments and just lounged around working on my blog and being a girl puppy mom.

Yes, that includes ordering new harnesses, leashes, and of course baby girl clothes for Maizy.

Even though spring is technically here, it has been dang cold in the mornings lately. Casey teases me when I come out to the car each morning wearing my winter parka over a hoodie, with both hoods up, and carrying a blanket to throw over my lap.

Umm… hello.

I’ve lost a crap ton of weight, and I have no hair to keep the heat inside my body. I’m basically walking around like a human Popsicle.

This might be a good time to introduce another one of my grandma’s famous sayings:

“Were you born in a barn?”

That’s what we heard every time we left the front door open.

It was usually followed by:

“We’re not rich enough to heat the outside.”

Well grandma, I must have won the lottery because I’m pretty sure I’ve been heating the outside since the end of December.

Although… I do have some fuzz growing back on my head!

Unfortunately, it is not enough yet to hold in any body heat.

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Since it was so cold this morning, I put Maizy in a new pair of her jammies. And because she has been testing the boundaries and learning her independence, I had to play the mean mommy and put her harness on her.

Yesterday the little cutie followed Gidget across the street and up the neighbor’s driveway.

Shock and awe!

First of all, Gidget should not have gone up the neighbor’s driveway… but I can’t really be mad at Maizy for following her. She is only just beginning to learn all the rules around her new kingdom here.

If I had been living in a pen for the last six years, I would want to explore as much as possible too.

But after yesterday’s little adventure, today Maizy had to go outside on a leash.

And this… is where the fun begins.

Maizy has never been on a leash.

Like… ever.

I’m sure you’ve seen those videos of cats on leashes where they just freeze and flop over like they’re dead.

Yep.

Drama Queen Maizy must have watched those videos too.

I set her down on the front porch and she froze.

Like a stone statue.

I took a couple tiny steps in front of her calling her name in the baby voice that normally gets her attention.

She slowly turned her head further away from me so I knew she was purposefully NOT looking at me.

Well…

I did what any good puppy mommy would do.

(After I was done giggling.)

I picked her up and set her down in the grass.

This time she mimicked the bunnies in our yard.

When they see us, they freeze. It’s hilarious. It’s like they think if they don’t move a hare (see what I did there), we can’t see them.

I always yell:

“We can see you, Bun Buns!”

Because I’m very mature like that.

Eventually Maizy got over her fear of the leash and we made it about 20 feet down the driveway.

Not bad for her very first time!

As a reward (besides a puppy treat, because I’m a softie) I took her off the leash.

She turned toward me and gave me an honest-to-goodness smile.

We will continue working on the leash.

After all…

aren’t we all a work in progress?

💗 Tina –
One Badass Day at a Time