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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / February 2004Grant Leaperbutt
OK. Grant discovered, somehow, the top shelf in the closet where I have our extra catnapper laying. My ceilings are high, so this shelf is 8 feet up. I think in getting up there, he uses the shelves as a ladder but coming down, he would have to jump straight to the floor. This is alarming to me. So for a few days, I shut the door to the closet hoping he'd forget about it. I think it made it worse. I don't like shutting the door, because Pearl likes to get in a basket in there that is on a shelf and it is very protected and she feels more secure there. However, I forgot and left it open yesterday. When I came home from work I had to visit the restroom. While I was there I heard an enormous THUMP! I thought, "that little booger! He was on that shelf!" by the time I came out he was sitting innocently in the hall. I fed them then. After his dinner he disappeared. This is unusual. In general, once I am home all three jockey for positions near me in the living room all night. So I went and looked in the closet. There he was! Just as though he was going to "show" me. I gave up and went back to the living room. A few minutes later he came out. Am I just being paranoid thinking this is an accident waiting to happen? My mom's cat does this, but he is thin with long legs and weighs only about 9 lbs. or so. Grant is not a monkey toes like Petrus and weighs 12 lbs 9 oz. . I could just keep the closet closed but I hate limiting their territory. Opinions? Karen > OK. Grant discovered, somehow, the top shelf in the closet where I have our > extra catnapper laying. My ceilings are high, so this shelf is 8 feet up. I [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Karen How about giving in and making it easier for him to get down? A well placed pillow to jump on or maybe making something available to jump 1/2 way down on and then jump the rest? At least he doesn't do what Oliver does and use the clothing in the closet to hang on to on his way down. I know, I know... I have given myself completely over to slavedom but I guess if he likes it so well and you don't want to make Pearl stop using her basket the best thing to do is make it safe. Another thought is to put some empty boxes up there to take up the space so it is too hard for him to get up there. Although I know if it were here we'd be making a little shelf 1/2 way between.... Margaret (now completely owned and operated by Oliver) :-)  SignatureMargaret Fine mefine@mindspring.com >How about giving in and making it easier for him to get down? A well >placed pillow to jump on or maybe making something available to jump 1/2 >way down on and then jump the rest? Maybe a trampoline? :) > >How about giving in and making it easier for him to get down? A well > >placed pillow to jump on or maybe making something available to jump 1/2 > >way down on and then jump the rest? > > Maybe a trampoline? :) Ba-DOING!! <cat now on ceiling> SignatureJette Goldie jette@blueyonder.co.uk Apache and Dakota http://www.jette.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/kitties.html > How about giving in and making it easier for him to get down? A well > placed pillow to jump on or maybe making something available to jump 1/2 [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Margaret (now completely owned and operated by Oliver) :-) I've thought about this. The first time I caught him up there, I put the taller cat tree in there, but he wouldn't use it. Of course, maybe one with a flatter top would be better. Hmmm. Their big one by the window would work maybe. Hmmm. I'll have to see. Of course, That kind of removes the "walkin" affect of the closet, but if he would refrain from crashing to the floor it might be worth it. It would also remove one of the trees by the big window, but that might not be too bad. Or, I could get yet another one. Conundrums conundrums. Karen > I've thought about this. The first time I caught him up there, I put the > taller cat tree in there, but he wouldn't use it. Of course, maybe one with [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Karen Someone posted a link a while ago for a product that looked like a hand rail that you would use next to a short stair case. It mounted on the wall and the cats could use them to walk around the walls. Maybe you could put on of these angling down so he could walk down the wall part way and you wouldn't lose the walk in function. I wish I could find the link.... SignatureMargaret Fine mefine@mindspring.com > > I've thought about this. The first time I caught him up there, I put the > > taller cat tree in there, but he wouldn't use it. Of course, maybe one with [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > way and you wouldn't lose the walk in function. I wish I could find the > link.... I know what you are talking about, but there is no where to put them! Karen > > How about giving in and making it easier for him to get down? A well > > placed pillow to jump on or maybe making something available to jump 1/2 [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > Karen Don't worry, the MOMENT you make it easier for him, he'll lose interest. :) Stacey :) > How about giving in and making it easier for him to get down? A well > placed pillow to jump on or maybe making something available to jump 1/2 [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Margaret (now completely owned and operated by Oliver) :-) Aww, that's sweet! Frank sometimes insists on being lifted up on the highest shelf in the closet, and naturally, I lift him up. Who am I to tell him it's too high for him to jump down? So, I put a kitchen stool by the closet, because I know he is getting a little stiff in his legs and can't jump down all the way in one bound. -- Marina, another devoted slave Well, the BT Rowdy weighs in, as I've said before, @ 19# - he's a huge brown striper - and regularly crashes to the tile floors from high elevations all over the house because of his very poor depth perception eyesight. Have learned not to display valuable/sentimental items as they go down with him, and tile is hard on bric-a-brac and crystal. His Evil Self, however, suffers only the momentary indignity of his folly, propeller-tail rotating as he stalks off, emanating "I meant to do that" as he goes. Wish I could reproduce the girls' expressions as they survey one of his "oops" episodes. : > How about giving in and making it easier for him to get down? A well : > placed pillow to jump on or maybe making something available to jump 1/2 [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] : -- : Marina, another devoted slave >>How about giving in and making it easier for him to get down? A well >>placed pillow to jump on or maybe making something available to jump 1/2 [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > -- > Marina, another devoted slave Marina, that is why I come here. I can show my affliction in public and get support not ridicule! :-) My husband regularly lifts Oliver up so he can sniff at the vents in the ceiling. I knew he had it as bad as I did the day Oliver looked up at the vent and meowed and my husband jumped up from what he was doing to lift him up! Margaret SignatureMargaret Fine mefine@mindspring.com > Marina, that is why I come here. I can show my affliction in public and > get support not ridicule! :-) A little like Catslaves Anonymous, except not so anonymous, and we don't want to quit! > My husband regularly lifts Oliver up so he can sniff at the vents in the > ceiling. I knew he had it as bad as I did the day Oliver looked up at > the vent and meowed and my husband jumped up from what he was doing to > lift him up! LOL! I always enjoy reading about men who are afflicted, because I never meet any in real life (who are afflicted with cat slavedom, that is). -- Marina "Marina" <frankiennikki@yahoo.co.uk> had some very interesting things to say about Re: Grant Leaperbutt: >LOL! I always enjoy reading about men who are afflicted, because I never >meet any in real life (who are afflicted with cat slavedom, that is). My DH is. :-) Signature"The universe is quite robust in design and appears to be doing just fine on its own, incompetent support staff notwithstanding. :-)" - the Dennis formerly known as (evil), MCFL In the past, I knew a male catslave who, when his short furry dictator grew too old and frail to jump up to the hoomins' bed, would carry the old cat from living room sofa beside the hoomins to his spot on the bed every night. : "Marina" <frankiennikki@yahoo.co.uk> had some very interesting things : to say about Re: Grant Leaperbutt: [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] : My DH is. :-) : :-)" - the Dennis formerly known as (evil), MCFL > LOL! I always enjoy reading about men who are afflicted, because I never > meet any in real life (who are afflicted with cat slavedom, that is). Those of us who are tend to be very badly afflicted. Nancy is pretty sure that I'm completely insane. Especially when I walk out into the back yard through the sprinklers to rescue Amelia when she's "trapped" in a corner of the yard (Amelia here's the sprinklers getting ready to start spraying but refuses to come in the house. Instead she'll run to a relatively dry corner of the yard and look pitiful until a human shows up to rescue her from the nasty sprinklermonsters that want to get her all wet). > > Marina, that is why I come here. I can show my affliction in public and > > get support not ridicule! :-) [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > LOL! I always enjoy reading about men who are afflicted, because I never > meet any in real life (who are afflicted with cat slavedom, that is). Dennis is totally afflicted. He didn't really care about cats very much when we first got Vino, but now he's a total addict. He even prefers to watch shows like Planet's Funniest Animals over other, more macho, shows. Speaking of Planet's Funniest Animals, we saw the funniest clip yesterday. There was this cat in a bathtub, up to his belly in water, and there was a rat in there with him and he was letting the rat climb up his fur and sit on his back to stay dry! And then there was another one where this cat kept tackling this dog and trying to wrestle with the dog. After a few attempts, the dog had had enough and took off. The cat then tackled the hoomin's leg and clamped onto the ankle for all he was worth! Too funny :-) -- Britta Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album Mine like to go to the top of the bookcases. Rocket races from the living room - down the hall - in the computer room - up the cat tree - jumps to one bookcase - and goes around to the next two (what can I say - I like to read, we could use another bookcase). All this is accomplished in about 1 second. The he reverses the course and ends up on the back of the recliner. Signature-Kim owned by Egbert, Niobe, Sekhar and Rocket take the cat out before you reply one cat just leads to another... http://photos.yahoo.com/sir_eg_of_bert > OK. Grant discovered, somehow, the top shelf in the closet where I have our > extra catnapper laying. My ceilings are high, so this shelf is 8 feet up. I [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Karen > OK. Grant discovered, somehow, the top shelf in the closet where I have our > extra catnapper laying. My ceilings are high, so this shelf is 8 feet up. I [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > Petrus and weighs 12 lbs 9 oz. . I could just keep the closet closed but I > hate limiting their territory. Opinions? Vino goes to the top of a couple of shelves and closets that we have, about 7 feet high. He jumps down directly to the floor and makes a huge thump too. He has an udder and weighs in at 12 lbs. I don't know if it could harm him but kind of doubt it. In any case, there's absolutely nothing I can do about it short of locking him out of the bedroom, living room and kitchen! -- Britta Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album > OK. Grant discovered, somehow, the top shelf in the closet where I have our > extra catnapper laying. My ceilings are high, so this shelf is 8 feet up. I [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > Petrus and weighs 12 lbs 9 oz. . I could just keep the closet closed but I > hate limiting their territory. Opinions? I think you're worrying unduly - cats are physically designed for jumping, and I don't think any of them will choose to jump down from a greater height than they can comfortably land from. (Even with accidental falls from a considerable height, they most often manage to land safely and walk away.) |
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