in case you don't read shapely prose

[keryx]

You should read this.

Step 7: Buy a pet. Having a pet will force you to take walks, which are a form of exercise. This is true unless you make the mistake that I made, which was buying an iguana. Iguanas walk very slowly and smell strongly of turds. I really cannot dissuade you strongly enough from buying an iguana.

Good things to consider a couple of days before many people (including you & me, perhaps?) go all weird with their annual self-recrimination.

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[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

Having a cat won't force you to take walks either, although it may force you to take short, arm-flailing sprints and lunges in a futile effort to prevent the cat from breaking something while entertaining itself, or to keep the cat entertained with an actual cat toy and thus distract it from more breakable objects.

[keryx.livejournal.com]

My experience is that having a cat forces you to do a fair number of squats while cleaning up their messes, too.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

My cat's messes tend to be on her own back end, so cleaning them up requires chasing her down and holding her under the faucet. Luckily, she's fairly cooperative (especially for a cat!) about being held under the faucet.

I am currently tragically catless, because my cat moved in with my fiancee on Sunday and I don't get to move in with her until tomorrow. I am suffering extreme kitty withdrawal right now.