Hammie Hurdles

Garfield has gotten into the Olympic spirit! His chosen sport is the hurdles. Being nocturnal, he wakes up around 9:00 pm and starts gnawing on the bars of his cage. Since this annoys me (and I quickly run out of things within arm's reach to throw at his cage to make him stop for a few seconds), I usually let him run around in his ball while I watch TV, knit, play on the computer, etc.


Garfield lives in the playroom, which is upstairs. I don't like closing the door because it cuts off circulation, making the room hot and stuffy. So that Garfield doesn't make a sprint towards the staircase, I have found many things to use as door blocks, or in his eyes, hurdles. At first, I used my bean bag chair, but I would trip over it going in and out of the room because it was so bulky. Then I discovered that my rolled-up yoga mat is the perfect length to fit in the doorway.



Undeterred, Garfield continues to try to conquer this hurdle despite the fact that he has some trouble getting over the small bump up from the linoleum to the carpet when he rolls himself into the bathroom. In the meantime, I have discovered other great blocks to use in the doorway. I have been trying to teach myself to play the piano for over a year, so I have a battery-powered keyboard in the playroom (which is probably a big part of the reason that I practice so infrequently). It's been more useful as a hammie hurdle lately.


And since the Harry Potter paperbacks came in so useful when I was measuring Molly Weasley's First Scarf, I brought them out again to use in the doorway. Watch as Garfield tries to conquer his newest hurdles... maybe he'll get it by the time the Olympics are (maybe) in Madrid in 2016!