Otis is obviously in better shape than many of us hoomins. I catgratulate
His Fitness Guru
on ability to work out in that way. You go, Otis!

When my sister was in graduate school, her kitten once climbed a tree
and then jumped down onto the roof of the house next door.  She
didn't own a ladder, so she had to go borrow one, climb up, and then
pop her kitten into the front of her jacket so that she would have
both hands free for climbing back down the ladder.

But very resourceful.  My grandma's cat, Pandora, was an expert at
letting everyone know when she wanted in.  Grandma had a little
ornamental window in her front door, about six feet up the door, and
Pan would leap up and hang off the window, bracing herself against the
door with her hind legs, stick her little face in the window, and
yell.  You'd turn around and see what looked like the little head of a
six-foot-tall cat at the door. ;)

Theresa
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Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal
claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.
(Aldous Huxley)

Tsk, tsk, Susan, have you still not learned that you must drop everything at
once when Otis calls. ;o)

Jake gets up on the roof on the easy side, crosses over the ridge and then
acts all pathetic when he can't get down on the difficult side.

Jo

Years ago, I also had one determined feline: She was spending her summer
cleaning out a nest of garter snakes that was in our backyard. (That is not the
'determined' part, though.)
   She would hold the snake in the middle so that both ends flopped in the
breeze, and jump a good 7 feet up to get through the opened sunporch window,
and then jump down to the floor and up again through the kitchen window to
bring it inside.
   Often times, my mother would spot the cat heading toward the house carrying
her snake, and she would begin frantically closing the sunporch windows,
yelling to me that the 'stupid cat had another snake.'
If the cat was unable to get into the house that way, she would run around to
the front of the house and hold the snake at bay next to the screen door,
yowling like a mother cat to our yorkie terrier to come see what she had
brought home.
   Being the last of the kids living at home, it became my job to get the
snake off of the cat. I must have given away 12 snakes to people around town
who had gardens that year! I was trying not to return them to whence they had
come for fear the cat would just bring them back again.
   She really was a sweet cat, but wherever she got the idea to bring, of all
things, snakes, home to feed the dog, I cannot tell you!
-cindy

Otis and Fez would make a frightening duo... :) :) :)