herding cats in a hurricance

Don't know if post order matters here so I'm posting again. :)

Bazi watched Swift's striped back intently. She had suggested to @Scimitar that they should have named in 'sloth' and saved themselves a lot of trouble, but it was too late now, so Bazi could only hold her breath and hoped that the rain would dissuade him from escaping. When he finally reversed, Bazi parted her forelegs to receive him, folding a paw closed over the gap like the door to a stable. Swift could jump it, of course, but she was prepared to seize him by the scruff of the neck of he tried. "Rain and thunder isn't as harmless as it looks," she preached, "You can't hear, can't smell.. things can creep up on you. You remember that when you're out on your own."