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| Sunday, October 01, 2006 |
| Update from the Atahome |
Bosco has improved his standing in Roswell's eyes by learning to operate the sliding door that opens into the lounge room.
We keep it closed at night because by the time Bosco was no longer a risk for peeing on the soft furnishings, he had taken to getting on the pelmet. While he has now learned to jump down from the pelmet, and no longer needs to be lifted off when he tires of being Up High, he sometimes jumps straight from the pelmet to the ground. He also misjudges a little occasionally on the way up, and once or twice has hung by a single paw for a few seconds until being retrieved by a human. Add to that the number of times we've seen him slip and almost fall - getting distracted from what his feet are doing by Roswell walking past the doorway - and we fear that if allowed in the lounge overnight, we may get up in the morning to discover that he has broken a leg and spent half the night behind the TV cabinet. But he has made it difficult to limit his access by discovering the secret of the sliding door, and we now get up in the morning to find him ensconced on the lounge.
Roswell is quite pleased about this. When the weather warms up, she tends not to sleep on our bed any more. She has her own comfortable bed in the laundry, but her next favourite place to spend the night is in the box in the cat-gym. It was, after all, created for her comfort, and it is a convenient place to sleep as it has a good view of the doorway - thus, she can keep an eye on household traffic whilst still being safe from Bosco attack. If there is a blanket piled on a chair, she also enjoys sleeping there, but the box is more secure.
So far it seems that he only opens the door to go in there and sleep, as we have yet to hear him on the pelmet in the night. We have tried limiting his access to his jumping-off spot with carefully placed ornaments (okay, soft toys and My Little Ponies - we don't own a lot of ornaments. Actually, that could be a good place for the wedding-gift candleholder Mr Ata doesn't like) - his response is to simply push them off with a paw if he can't step over them. Sometimes he just pushes stuff off for fun. I would try putting tubs of water in the spot - but his launching pad is the centre speaker on top of the TV. Behind the TV there are a LOT of wires. Water + electronics = bad idea.
Oh well. One supposes we will just have to trust his catlike reflexes to prevent him breaking something - like his neck. |
posted by Ata @ 6:12 pm  |
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I don't know which is more risky: bosco discovering how to open the sliding door, or ata getting hold of a pair of ratcheting loppers.
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I don't know which is more risky: bosco discovering how to open the sliding door, or ata getting hold of a pair of ratcheting loppers.