Missycat has a new trick. She’s figured out how to climb up onto the roof. She learned this by watching the other cat (that cat being Miffy, my in-laws cat, who we’re looking after while the in-laws are living overseas). Mind you, Missycat and Miffy don’t like each other, but they do watch each other and learn new things that way.
Anyway, Missycat can get up on the roof, but she can’t get down. Why she doesn’t come down the way she gets up (which is by climbing up a particular tree), I don’t know. But the silly cat gets up there and then can’t get down, so she sits on the roof just outside the kitchen window and meows until someone comes and rescues her, which we have to do by climbing up on something, usually one of the chairs on the deck, and lifting her down.
She did this a couple of times and finally I thought I’d teach her a lesson, which is, “Don’t go up if you can’t get down.” I left her up there overnight, even though I knew perfectly well she wanted to come in. It’s not very nice, I know, but it wasn’t raining or anything (I wouldn’t leave any cat on a roof in the rain!), and I figured maybe she’d get it into her little kitty head that going onto the roof wasn’t a good idea.
All was well at first. She stayed inside for a couple of days. Didn’t ask to go out at all (she has a litter tray inside, so she doesn’t really need to go out). Finally, she did go out for a bit of a stroll and a snoop and I figured she’d be smart enough to keep her paws on the ground.
Nope. I was wrong. Tonight I went into the kitchen to get a drink and I heard the meowing outside. I thought she just wanted to come in. I opened the door but no cat. Peered out into the darkness and a couple of gold eyes flash at me from the edge of the roof, just above the rain gutter. Yup. Had to go out and stand on chair and get the silly thing down again.
My cat just turned ten years old, I’ll have you know. She’s middle-aged, as cats go. Why on earth a middle aged lady like that wants to creep around on a tile roof I honestly can’t imagine. Particularly since she has to yell for someone to come and get her down!
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