November 19, 2009
My cat is a climber.
And the best thing about Lena’s arboreal activity this afternoon was this: She was climbing the tree for no apparent reason. She was neither fleeing a pursuer nor chasing prey.
She was just climbing a tree — and jabbering her fool head off. Talking to herself.
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Our cats climb trees too, they race up, then get this look on their faces like they can’t remember what they needed to do there, and sort of fall down. Yes, it is like the Road Runner. They also gallop. I have never seen cats gallop like our cats gallop. They gallop.
The best is that moment when they stop abruptly and look distractedly about, as if to say, “How did I get here?”
Lena, too, gallops. She must be related to yours.
Look what I just found
The cinder path of wrath
— I like that.
I’m intrigued by the way cats can’t get down from the tree until they see a ladder they don’t want. Somehow I think this could be applied to economic theory.
Daryl! You must meet Lena!
She descends a tree as quick as one-two-three. She shinnies partway down, then does a beautiful three-quarter twist and flings herself to the ground.
I have seen her do this from a point quite high up the trunk of a tree!
She is not. I imagine, an economically theoretical animal — of any stripe.
Oh! I know that twist you speak of, Sheila. It’s like seeing a person open an umbrella in a high wind, and you know what’s going to happen–but then it doesn’t. Cats know how to minimize even momentary awkwardness.
Cats know how to minimize even momentary awkwardness.
Well said.
Would that we all had that gift, she muttered (thinking, as so often, of herself).
There will never be a cat daycare. Cats wanna do their own shit, and fuck you if you don’t wanna be involved. They’ll do their shit without you then, cunt. Just don’t be coming around expecting the cat to give a damn when suddenly you wanna be like “yeah but I feed you so you have to let me pet you” because you have to do that shit, otherwise it’s like, child abuse and they’ll just call CPS or SPCA or whatever.
I’m sorry, I don’t know where that came from.