The hotter the day, the longer the cat! All of our Furry Overlords (& one Furry Overlady) did not care for the Summer Heat, just the radient rays streaming thru the windows of our A/C-cooled house.
I remember Erma Bombeck saying something along the lines of “roughing it” being a hotel room with a black & white TV!!! I’ve been camping & we do military reenacting, (Rev War, not Civil War) & lemme tell ya, about ANY hotel room, as long as there’s flush toilets & hot-n-cold running water that doesn’t run out, and heating/air conditioning, is the Waldorf Astoria!!!
So leave him at home. Take a friend for company & let him wallow in his stick-in-the-mud-itis. Tho’ I have to say, some people are just not good travelers & can find plenty to keep them occupied & happy at home. Especially now, where books & the internet can show you so much of the world.
With the luck I had as a kid, I’d get the guy who wrote down Captain Underpants! I was an unrecognized advanced reader, and an adult, I am exceedingly grateful for my teachers never assigning a Summer Reading List. It would’ve been absolutely mizzerrubble to read the boring, inane, ridiculous books assigned to my age.
When we had cats, they were a free used litter receptacle. Now, our town has BYOB rules; Bring Your Own Bag. But, we’ve used our own bags since the 1970’s, causing great consternation amongst that now defunct, ancient sect of Grocery Store Baggers, who just could NOT understand that a sturdy cloth bag could hold more than a paper bag.
Happy 50th!!! Happy Birthday!!!