Thanks. She does know who's in charge - she is! It's the first time a cat chose us - usually, we've chosen the cat. She's been very good at easing the loss of our older kitty. Our older kitty was diabetic - we'd given her insulin twice daily for several years. We estimate she was about 16 years old - we had her for 14 of those years. My daughter feels that this cat (Snuggles) was a gift from God, who knew the older cat had almost reached the end of her years.
We can take the younger cat out on a leash (she's shown a tendency to run into the street when free). When we hold out the harness, she climbs into our lap and waits patiently while we fasten the buckles. She's pretty entertaining and talkative, too.
That's cute how she gets in your lap to put on the harness. Our cats just really don't like their's and struggle against them. Part of it is they're a little small for them now. So we just keep them indoors. We are protective mother hens and don't want anything bad to happen to them by being outdoors.
I assume the cat in all the pictures is the same one. It's interesting, in some of the pictures she looks a little more red than gray, so I was thinking maybe they were different cats. But she's a gorgeous one. There's a cat that looks a lot like her that sits in the window of one of my neighbor's home. She cries wildly when we walk by to get attention. I will often walk up to the window and talk to her and she goes crazy rubbing her face and crying with joy to have someone talking to her. I'm going to get arrested for trespassing and/or peeping tom-ism one of these days doing that!
Anyway, the last time I saw her early this week she didn't look well and I've not seen her since : (