Annika
October 23rd, 2002, 02:18 PM
Another installment of what can my cat get himself into....
I've only lived in my apartment for one month, so he is still discovering his boundaries. The apartment is a loft, so the bedroom area upstairs looks down onto the living room. One wall is completely windows....there is a floor to ceiling window that would normally end where the downstairs ceiling would be....and then a second floor to ceiling window that would normally be the upstairs portion. Naturally, the second set (higher) window has a window ledge.
In the wonderment that is a feline's intrigue, Sam has been fascinated with getting up to that second window ledge. The human unwittingly placed a bookshelf near the window for the cats convenience, and upon her discovery is unable to remedy the situation due to recent broken arm syndrome. Therefore, began the battle of wits.....cat against human.
Sam would jump up on top of the bookshelf and begin to ponder if he could really jump up tp that window ledge. This human has had two outcomes vividly swirling around in her head....
A) The cat wouldn't make the jump and take down the lower window's vertcal blinds with him on his way down, or...
B) The cat would make the jump and not know how to get back down, and this human wouldn't know how to get him down either.
So, the argument would begin....cat against human....with human attempting to convince cat that jumping to second window ledge is a bad idea. Cat tends to backtalk to human, which I'm sure is quite comical to anyone listening on the occasion the back door was open. Human won argument for first three weeks!!!!
Eventually, cat disregards human and jumps.......
He makes it.....
And has no clue how to get dowm. Therefore, the logical conclusion of "B" wins my mental scenerio.
Human, in perfect example of maturity, is now having a wonderful little "I told you so" dialogue with cat (again, probably for the entertainment value of the nieghbors, since the back door was open at this time).
Cat spent a good 20 minutes wandering back and forth on ledge attempting to figure out what he was going to do. Ledge is too narrow for cat to turn around (which would have solved the problem because he then would have been facing the appropriate direction to jump back down to bookshelf), and I must admit it was rather comical to watch him back up across the ledge and reach the wall all scrunched up like the grinch going down the chimney. Cat eventually made this really cool acrobatic leap, with a twisting effect (I give him a 10) back onto bookshelf.
Did this little experience deter him any????
Well, lets just say I need to find a new spot for the bookshelf.
I've only lived in my apartment for one month, so he is still discovering his boundaries. The apartment is a loft, so the bedroom area upstairs looks down onto the living room. One wall is completely windows....there is a floor to ceiling window that would normally end where the downstairs ceiling would be....and then a second floor to ceiling window that would normally be the upstairs portion. Naturally, the second set (higher) window has a window ledge.
In the wonderment that is a feline's intrigue, Sam has been fascinated with getting up to that second window ledge. The human unwittingly placed a bookshelf near the window for the cats convenience, and upon her discovery is unable to remedy the situation due to recent broken arm syndrome. Therefore, began the battle of wits.....cat against human.
Sam would jump up on top of the bookshelf and begin to ponder if he could really jump up tp that window ledge. This human has had two outcomes vividly swirling around in her head....
A) The cat wouldn't make the jump and take down the lower window's vertcal blinds with him on his way down, or...
B) The cat would make the jump and not know how to get back down, and this human wouldn't know how to get him down either.
So, the argument would begin....cat against human....with human attempting to convince cat that jumping to second window ledge is a bad idea. Cat tends to backtalk to human, which I'm sure is quite comical to anyone listening on the occasion the back door was open. Human won argument for first three weeks!!!!
Eventually, cat disregards human and jumps.......
He makes it.....
And has no clue how to get dowm. Therefore, the logical conclusion of "B" wins my mental scenerio.
Human, in perfect example of maturity, is now having a wonderful little "I told you so" dialogue with cat (again, probably for the entertainment value of the nieghbors, since the back door was open at this time).
Cat spent a good 20 minutes wandering back and forth on ledge attempting to figure out what he was going to do. Ledge is too narrow for cat to turn around (which would have solved the problem because he then would have been facing the appropriate direction to jump back down to bookshelf), and I must admit it was rather comical to watch him back up across the ledge and reach the wall all scrunched up like the grinch going down the chimney. Cat eventually made this really cool acrobatic leap, with a twisting effect (I give him a 10) back onto bookshelf.
Did this little experience deter him any????
Well, lets just say I need to find a new spot for the bookshelf.