22 August 04
Leaps And Bounds
Diego is by a good bit the most agile of our two kitties. He’s always leaping up on things, mostly just to check out what’s happening. (Charlie is getting better at his leaps but often it seems has to pull himself up by his forepaws.) Yesterday evening he gave a prime example of this. One of his favorite spots to sit is the trunk bag that sits on top of the rear rack of our tandem. This itself is about a yard off the ground. Anyway, I was changing the 5-gallon water bottle on our water dispenser—glug, glug, glug it was going, filling the empty dispenser. Diego leaps in one bound from the tandem rack to our couch, then without missing a beat, leaps in a second bound from the couch on to the countertop, and then steps over to the water bottle to check out the commotion. He’s a regular scientist, our Diego.
- It sounds as if you are enjoying these two very much. Leaping kittens are all very well but mine discovered that the kitchen bench was the most alluring goal. Apparently one is supposed to bang a rolled up newspaper near kittens to train them – i couldn’t bring myself to do this. The consequence is that I have a very large (7.5kg) adult cat who insists on jumping on the bench when he wants food which is not very desirable at all. (He’s the boss).— Jenny 23. August 2004, 12:23 Link
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