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Susan M - 18 Sep 2005 05:00 GMT

Last night, Otis was sitting on the roof underneath our second storey
bedroom window whining for over an hour. I went downstairs and called to
him from the yard but he just stood there yowling at me from the roof. I
don't know why since he had never had a problem hopping down before.

Eventually, we had to go to bed and we couldn't stand it anymore. I went
outside in my pj's with a flashlight and shone the light on the fence under
the eaves until he *finally* decided to jump down and come inside.

How many cats have humans going to shine lights on their landing spots? I
know at least one ...

Susan M
Well trained
Otis and Chester
Obstinate

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Kate Morris - 18 Sep 2005 10:05 GMT

> How many cats have humans going to shine lights on their landing spots? I
> know at least one ...

Fudge has us well trained too! If she is on the garage roof and we are
outside she will claim she is trapped.

She won't come down until we stand next to the garage and bend forward
so she can jump onto our back, and then onto the ground.

If we're not outside, she'll quite happily hop down onto the fence.

She used to scare our neighbours where we used to live by going from the
fence onto the garage and then onto the roof of our house where she
would sit on the front edge miaowing pitifully at people walking past,
so they would knock on the door and offer their ladders, at which point
she would walk back over the roof, onto the garage and back down into
the garden, and through the house to stand next to us at the front door
while we were still trying to assure them that she wasn't really trapped
on the roof and ladders weren't necessary. (I'm sure she was laughing at
them). We now live in a bungalow so she doesn't do it any more.

Kate.

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Susan M - 18 Sep 2005 21:22 GMT

> She used to scare our neighbours where we used to live by going from the
> fence onto the garage and then onto the roof of our house where she would
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> ladders weren't necessary. (I'm sure she was laughing at them). We now
> live in a bungalow so she doesn't do it any more.

LOL - that's priceless!!

Susan M
Otis and Chester

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Cheryl Perkins - 18 Sep 2005 22:31 GMT

> She used to scare our neighbours where we used to live by going from the
> fence onto the garage and then onto the roof of our house where she
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> on the roof and ladders weren't necessary. (I'm sure she was laughing at
> them). We now live in a bungalow so she doesn't do it any more.

I thought I had the only cat that did this! Before Mandy's accident, which
led to me trying to enforce a 'No Out except on a leash' rule, I had one
of those visits from a neighbour concerned about the poor trapped cat
staring over the edge of the roof to the concrete sidewalk two stories
down!

Mandy, however, preferred to stand on the roof of the back porch (only one
storey high and not visible from the road), eye the top of the fence which
she could easily reach from the roof OR the ground, and meow for help. I
actually was conned into getting out a small set of steps so she could
jump down to me, digging in with all claws.

Betsy never went in for the trips to the roof as much as Mandy did,
although she was the one who figured out that on the other side of the
window overlooking the back porch was a very familiar In. I went indoors
and upstairs to open the window and dislodge the screen only to find she'd
changed her mind and preferred the fence route ONCE before I decided if
she got up there on her own, she could get down the same way.

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wafflycat - 18 Sep 2005 13:53 GMT

> How many cats have humans going to shine lights on their landing spots? I
> know at least one ...

I am Waffles's landing spot :-)

She *loves* being "Onna Up"

Cheers, helen s

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Susan M - 18 Sep 2005 21:23 GMT

> I am Waffles's landing spot :-)
> She *loves* being "Onna Up"

She's got you trained too :-) That *can't* be comfortable when she lands
...

Susan M
Otis and Chester

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Marina - 19 Sep 2005 04:20 GMT

>> How many cats have humans going to shine lights on their landing
>> spots? I know at least one ...
>
> I am Waffles's landing spot :-)
>
> She *loves* being "Onna Up"

Nikki always used to jump down on me when she had been up on the roof on
the island. This summer, Miranda learned that meowmie is a good place to
land, too.

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Kalynnda Berens - 18 Sep 2005 14:23 GMT

<snip>.

> How many cats have humans going to shine lights on their landing spots? I
> know at least one ...
>
> Susan M

When we lived in Tucson, Shadow got up on our roof by jumping on the
block fence, then up on the carport roof which connected with the main
roof. If we worked out in the front yard, she loved to watch us from
on-high. She was great about getting down on her own, except if we were
outside. Then she'd cry at us, and we'd have lead her (verbally) back to
her jumping-down spot. She certainly had us well trained.

Kalynnda, owned by seven four-footed furry freeloaders

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Susan M - 18 Sep 2005 21:24 GMT

> When we lived in Tucson, Shadow got up on our roof by jumping on the block
> fence, then up on the carport roof which connected with the main roof. If
> we worked out in the front yard, she loved to watch us from on-high. She
> was great about getting down on her own, except if we were outside. Then
> she'd cry at us, and we'd have lead her (verbally) back to her
> jumping-down spot. She certainly had us well trained.

Who knew that so many people had demanding roof cats??? I don't quite
understand why they do it but it is kind of endearing :-)

Susan M
Otis and Chester

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John F. Eldredge - 18 Sep 2005 22:19 GMT

>> When we lived in Tucson, Shadow got up on our roof by jumping on the block
>> fence, then up on the carport roof which connected with the main roof. If
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>Who knew that so many people had demanding roof cats??? I don't quite
>understand why they do it but it is kind of endearing :-)

My father used to leave his extension ladder leaning against his house
so that his cat could go up on the roof. There was a small side porch
in front of the kitchen windows, with a wooden beam going diagonally
across (part of a never-completed trellis), and the cat would perch
herself at the middle of the beam and gaze in the kitchen windows. On
a few occasions, my parents found some other neighborhood cat perched
up on the beam, and gazing in the window, instead of their own cat.

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Susan M - 19 Sep 2005 01:30 GMT

"John F. Eldredge" <john@jfeldredge.com> wrote in message >

> My father used to leave his extension ladder leaning against his house
> so that his cat could go up on the roof. There was a small side porch
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> a few occasions, my parents found some other neighborhood cat perched
> up on the beam, and gazing in the window, instead of their own cat.

That just reminded me of those planks that people put on their walls to
create climbing routes along the walls of their house. We're renovating
this spring - wouldn't it be fun to put a climbing route up the back of the
house :D

Susan M
Otis and Cheste4r

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Victor Martinez - 19 Sep 2005 04:56 GMT

> That just reminded me of those planks that people put on their walls to
> create climbing routes along the walls of their house. We're renovating
> this spring - wouldn't it be fun to put a climbing route up the back of the
> house :D

If/when we remodel the house, we'll definitely take this into account:
http://www.thecatshouse.com/html/cathouse/ch_01.htm

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Susan M - 19 Sep 2005 05:48 GMT

>> That just reminded me of those planks that people put on their walls to
>> create climbing routes along the walls of their house. We're renovating
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> If/when we remodel the house, we'll definitely take this into account:
> http://www.thecatshouse.com/html/cathouse/ch_01.htm

OMG - that is amazing Victor - I love it! Thanks so much for sharing!!

Susan M
Otis and Chester

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Jo Firey - 18 Sep 2005 21:45 GMT

> Last night, Otis was sitting on the roof underneath our second storey
> bedroom window whining for over an hour. I went downstairs and called to
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> How many cats have humans going to shine lights on their landing spots? I
> know at least one ...

Worse here. We have to go up on a ladder to get Jake down half the time.
Molly has learned to get herself down.

Jake can get down, he just can't remember to go to the side of the house
where he got up to start with.

Jo

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