Ranger and I have had a couple of interesting encounters in the last
couple days. New Year's Eve I was taking a nice, hot bath (real party
animal, that was the high point of my night). Ranger did as he always
does, came up on the edge of the tub to explore and try to figure out why
I was intentionally sitting myself in a tub of water. The water had only
reached about 3" deep when Ranger got a little too inquisitive. He was
trying to walk along the back lip of the tub which is only about 1/2"
wide. Of course he lost his balance and stepped into the tub. Fortunately
he landed on his feet and only scrambled a little bit to get out (hence
only mild scratches on my back), but when he did finally get out he had
his back paws on the outside lip of the tub and his front paws on the
inside lip - he was spanning the entire tub, and no way could he recover
either direction. I decided to be a good catslave, dried off my hands, and
lifted him free of the tub onto the bathroom floor. What did he do next?
Yep, right up onto the edge of the tub to watch!

The latest incident was last night while Nancy was at work. Just after
Halloween my brother brought me Halloween cat - a plastic cat (a very ugly
one) with a motion sensor. When it detects motion it plays some really
loud, really obnoxious music. I've been keeping it on top of the TV facing
the wall so it won't see motion and turn itself on. While I was brushing
my teeth last night I heard a "whump" from the living room, and figured
Ranger was climbing on the cabinets knocking books off again. A couple
minutes later this loud obnoxious music starts, and a moment later a
little grey streak flashed by the bathroom door and into the bedroom.
After the music shut itself off Ranger slowly made his way into the
bathroom with his eyes as wide as saucers.

Since I had just finished brushing my teeth I picked him up and snuggled
him until his heart rate had slowed to normal. He stuck really close to me
the rest of the night.

And when I carried Ranger into the living room, Harri gave Ranger a
withering stare that clearly said "you idiot!".