I'm bigger and stronger than my sister. I'm also much more interested in everything that's going on with the humans. Sometimes my sister Joan stays fast asleep while I'm in the kitchen, trying to get involved (usually in vain) with the interesting smells and noises that happen.
Joan is pretty good at jumping, though.
For a girl, that is.
She's quite elegant, too. I admit it, I can be a bit clumsy and heavy-footed at times. I miss my footing if I'm not concentrating. Joan is better at estimating how far she can jump, and landing neatly on the ground. It's only recently that she's begun exploring the high places of the house.
However (being a girl) she's sometimes a bit lacking in common sense.
I've looked at doors. The tops of them are very tempting, sometimes. But they move, and there's not a lot of space... so I've resisted the temptation to explore them.
Not Joan. She jumped from a bookcase to the top of a door last week:
The human didn't help this time so eventually Joan turned around and jumped down via the sofa.
It feels very strange that my sister has been exploring and getting into tricky situations, while I remain in safer places lower down. Surely I can't be turning into an elderly, boring cat already....?
Joan is pretty good at jumping, though.
For a girl, that is.
She's quite elegant, too. I admit it, I can be a bit clumsy and heavy-footed at times. I miss my footing if I'm not concentrating. Joan is better at estimating how far she can jump, and landing neatly on the ground. It's only recently that she's begun exploring the high places of the house.
However (being a girl) she's sometimes a bit lacking in common sense.
I've looked at doors. The tops of them are very tempting, sometimes. But they move, and there's not a lot of space... so I've resisted the temptation to explore them.
Not Joan. She jumped from a bookcase to the top of a door last week:
She was quite pleased with herself. When the female human saw her, and asked what she was doing there, Joan sat down to show that she was quite comfortable.
But after a few minutes she realised she was a bit stuck... she walked up and down the door, but it had moved a bit when she jumped, and she could no longer jump to the bookcase.
So the human eventually lifted her down. I would have felt humiliated in such a situation, but Joan didn't seem to mind.
She hasn't been on the door again, but a couple of days later she jumped right up from the sofa to the top of the curtains, where there's a nice broad ledge.
That's me sitting on a small table, deciding it wasn't a good idea to join her.
Here's a better picture of her, as she tried to decide whether she could jump down the other side:
The human didn't help this time so eventually Joan turned around and jumped down via the sofa.
It feels very strange that my sister has been exploring and getting into tricky situations, while I remain in safer places lower down. Surely I can't be turning into an elderly, boring cat already....?
