From Such Great Heights

This morning Steve and I were rudely awoken by the sound of our cat jumping up on to Steve’s dresser. Recently Moose has taken to being on top of things weather it be the armoire or the refrigerator, this last week Moose has felt the need to scale it. Earlier in the week he discovered he can jump from the counter, to refrigerator, to the top of our kitchen cabinets. Once he’s up at face level he gets nasty too and will scratch you if you try to get him down.

So when he got up on the dresser this morning we sleepily made the choice to just let him be. Until he started meowing for our attention; it seems that the top of the dresser was not has high as he wanted. We thought he wanted to jump on to the shelf in the closet and we watched him get ready to jump expecting him to end up landing on the floor in failure. We were all surprised when Moose jumped not into the closet but on to the top of the closet door. He stood on the closet door with Steve and I staring up in awe at him. He was balanced on the one inch thick door trying to the tall shelf that was already covered in stuff with no room for a cat.

Sensing the fruitlessness of this next jump he decided to jump somewhere else. We held our breaths as Moose moved toward the edge of the door and jumped from the door down to our bed/on top of Steve. Moose had given up the quest for higher in our bedroom for the morning. Once down to ground level again he promptly meowed, jumped off the bed and ran into the kitchen to be fed now that we were awake.