Cat Antics

Cats are experts at hiding in locations where you would never dream of looking for them. Cats can perform balancing acts better than someone on a balance beam can. My cats love to fly through my house and never seem to break anything. Cats are the most coordinated creatures on God’s green earth.

Years ago, my Father went out to feed our Pigs at 5 AM one morning. My Father had bent over to fill a bucket with grain when our cat Skunk decided to jump on his shoulder. My Father jumped, wondering what had landed on his shoulder, to discover that it was only our black cat Skunk.

My house cat Garfunkel loves sleeping on my Grandfather’s clock and refrigerator. He has an excellent viewpoint on top of these high items. I once found Garfunkel sound to sleep on top of my China Hutch. Later in the day, Conrad was sleeping beside him on top of the China Hutch.

I used to have a Pool Table in my basement. My house cat, Sugar, would rest on a cupboard and watch the balls fly across the Pool Table. Sugar took great pleasure in watching those balls fly across my Pool Table. Sugar was a pure-breed Seal Point Siamese cat. My Mother was working on Genealogy one day, which was more than Sugar could bear. Sugar was a very jealous cat. We left to go to town, and when we came back home, Sugar had chewed the corner off of each of my Mother’s papers, plus a brand new road atlas. My Mother was unhappy with Sugar’s antics that day. One day I had been looking high and low for Sugar to discover her later in the Christmas decoration storage box. Sugar shocked my Father when he reached for a towel in our linen closet. He touched Sugar instead of a towel.

My cat Sebastian would balance on top of a window valance and walk back and forth without losing footing. At age two, he became too large to perform these antics. When I first brought him into our house as a young kitten, he gathered up all of the missing toy mice and placed them side by side in a neat, orderly row.

I love the different antics cats can perform with precision and ease. My cats never cease to amaze me.

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