My $%^&*ing cat can climb ladders!!!

[fudge stripe cookays]

OK.

So tonight I'm trying to hang some more of our cool stone wall printed plastic stuff for our Halloween party.

I was using our tall stepladder to get up to the REALLY tall areas (we have cathedral ceilings! Oi!)

Now Molly as been known to do some spastic stuff, but I looked up a little while ago, and she had crawled UP our step ladder, and she was sitting up on our plant ledge in the kitchen (at least 7-8 feet up) gazing down at me and giving me a "hi mom!" type of meow from her new perch!

Freaking cat.

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[Liberal Veteran]

1. She wants to help!

Tee-hee!

[rockydem]

2. cats

schmatts...

[Mizmoon]

3. Wanna hear what my cat does?

She jumps up onto the toilet
to get up on the sink
to jump up onto the shower doors,
to get on top of the medicine cabinet

I walk into the bathroom and she meows at me from the highest point in the house as if to say, "HEY! Check THIS out, mom!"

[rocktivity]

4. My friend's cat tried to climb a window screen

and got his claws caught. Fortunately, it happened during a weekend--suppose he'd tried it when she was at work?

:headbang:
rocknation

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. I had a German Shepherd who could do the same

Hey I know this is a cat thread but somebody's gotta stand up for us dog lovers.

[bobbieinok]

9. we had a dog for a while who wanted to climb up the ladder and slide

down the slide like the kids did.

Either that dog or another dog loved the slide (at one of the local parks) that was built into the side of a small rise. The dog could go up the back of the rise and slide down the wide slide. He loved it and would do it as long as we were near the slide.

[DELUSIONAL]

6. Cat in boat yard climbs ladders all the time

The cat would climb tall ladders -- 15 feet or more off the ground.

I watched her climb up and then take a tour of the boat and then climb down the ladder. She was fearless. No dogs could get to her -- she's head straight for one of the ladders leaning up against the boat.

She enjoyed visiting people on boats -- and perhaps to steal some food.

[Lorien]

7. I've got one like that too-gotta watch 'em!

I can't pull the ladder down from the attic without her zipping right up it!

Some cats simply can't resist high places.:shrug:

[helnwhls]

12. thank you for the very cute pics

little did I realize that DU would be such a great source of kitty pictures

[Lorien]

19. You're welcome!

Here's a couple just for you:

[Sporadicus]

13. Gorgeous Tails

Get them to do the dusting while they're up there in hard-to-reach areas :7

[Lorien]

16. It needs it, too!

She's a pretty good dust mop, but my other one is better:

[fudge stripe cookays]

14. Jen , those are HILARIOUS!!

Right now she's zipping around the house out of control once again. She's making me MENTAL. She LOVES to run through the vertical blinds and hear the slappy noise they make.

She doesn't want to HELP me put the stuff up-- she's actually been making pretty good progress at ripping it down!

I can only put up the top layers of it. I'll have to wait until the afternoon of the party to finish putting up the bottom layer. And her ass is getting locked in our bedroom for the duration of the night!

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The culprit in full-on stretch mode:

[Lorien]

17. Oh, I know that routine!

is she fairly young, or just hyper? My beloved PeeWee, who passed away last year, did the whole verticle blind thing all the time; I finally had to get curtains instead, lol!

She's also a pretty good dust mop, I see. ;-)

Hey, look into a cat toy called the "Panic mouse 360". Does a good job wearing kitty out for the afternoon. :-)

[fudge stripe cookays]

22. Yep. Young.

She's about 9 months old, so yes, still very hyper. I keep hoping that as she ages she'll mellow a bit.

The fact that the kitty condo reprehensor bought her is coated with catnip doesn't help matters either. I could have slugged him when he showed me the one he bought! OF all the choices- he buys the one with freaking catnip???!!

We actually already have a pretty good "wearing out" toy. The red laser pointer is quite excellent for this purpose!

One day, reprehensor wore her out so bad she was sitting on the tile around our sunken tub PANTING! I told him not to work her quite so hard next time!

But I'll check out the Panic Mouse 360. Couldn't hurt!
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[shraby]

18. Wait till you put up your Christmas tree.

Then the real fun begins.

[fudge stripe cookays]

21. God. Don't remind me!

This will be the little shit's first Christmas with us. I'm OVERJOYED at the prospect of putting up a tree this year.

:eyes:
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[FDRrocks]

8. Back when we lived in florida....

The ceiling for our living room and dining room was about 20 or so feet up and the walls seperating the room didn't connect at the top, so we put some vases and stuff on top of the walls.

We get a siamese cat that can apparently jump 7 feet high, well... he kicked those vases out (literally) and made himself a new observation post.

[Zomby Woof]

10. sounds like my cat

:-) There's no fooling the smart ones.

[shraby]

15. When I was a kid, I slept upstairs in the

bedroom next to my brother's. One night I woke up cause I heard something on the roof (we had dormer windows). We lived way out in the country with the nearest neighbor at least a mile away so I was a tad scared. I went downstairs to my parents room..only Mom was there cause Dad worked away from home all week.

I said, "Mom there's something on the roof". It happened that a ladder was leaned up to the roof outside her bedroom window, so we peeked to see if "IT" came back down..."IT" finally did..it was my brother's dog running around on the roof probably trying to get in with my brother. The dumb dog went up and down the ladder several times..it was a Beagle hound. Guess they know how to climb, huh?

[LizW]

11. Our barn cats were always good ladder climbers

This was when I was a kid. What was really funny was when a new litter of kittens, born up in the loft, would decide at about 6 weeks or so that it was time to come down. Sometimes the mom cat would carry them down one by one, but sometimes they would try it on their own and end up sort of falling from rung to rung, grabbing on and breaking their fall on the way down.

[mfritz]

20. Brindle likes the high ground