Carly Pearce loves to run, but back during quarantine, she got a lot of walking in because of a very unlikely walking companion, as she explained during a fan Q&A online.

“I have some animals. I have Johnny and June, we got Retta Lynn – Loretta Lynn, you know, but she goes by Retta – and then we also have Emmylou the cat. I found during quarantine when I was staying with my parents in Alabama, she likes to be walked. And about 3 o’clock every day she would literally like, look at the door, like, ‘Are you gonna walk me?’ And she’s huge. She’s so fat. Her fat hangs to the ground. And I would take her and put her on a leash, and she would just walk down the road, and wanted to walk.”

Carly has been able to spend time walking her cat since she has been home in Nashville lately. She has been working on her next album and rehearsing to hit the road with Blake Shelton on his “Back to the Honky Tonk Tour,” which kicks off in a few weeks in Lincoln, Nebraska February 16th.