Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Look at our wonderful cat walk!
Dear George,
We are sending you some photos of our cat walk. Before this excellent bit of wooden architecture was installed, we had to balance on the top of a precarious fence. This made our human nervous for our welfare. (She calls herself a cat behaviourist - the cheek of it). So she built this and we admit it is an excellent idea.
It makes an excellent walk way up and down the garden. There are resting stations at various points, on which we can loll, roll and even sleep. We can also use it for proper supervision of our human’s gardening attempts – we don’t want to miss a chance to use the fine tilth litter area she digs (she calls it a seed bed).
And of course, we have joined Neighbourhood Watch. Nothing happens in the cat world that we cannot see. And because we have such a stable resting place, we can see off intruders.
Yours truly,
Nimai and Syama.
Dear Nimai and Syama,
Clever idea. Humans are such dumb creatures so it is always a pleasant surprise when they make a big cognitive leap forward. The walkway is a short step for cats but a giant step for humankind.
It's all down to inspiration, of course. We cats can sometimes inspire great cognitive efficiency in our humans. I see (from the link) that your human has studied cats. Poor darlings. Mine has done some of the same studies she did. Mine has studied long and hard. It's so sweet. And I can still so easily outwit her! LOL.
Now I look at your cat walk, I think it would also fit inside a human house. A range of walks like this would give valuable vertical space for indoor only cats. We cat flap cats can always run up a tree if we need to look down on our humans (so healing if we are feeling down hearted). Indoor cats sometimes don't have much vertical space.
So, you indoor cats reading this blog. Entice your human to the computer to read this. And get them working on some nice wooden walkways.
Love
George
PS. The photos are Nimai and Syoma's copyright.
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Kizzie says: How thoughtful if your humans to put you a shelf up. Unfortunately, they couldn't do this with our fence as it is as the side of the driveway and a shelf would scratch the car. Never mind - at least I can sit on top of the wall.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great catwalk!!!
ReplyDeleteYou kitties have it made!
; ) Katie & Glogirly
And I took in an engineer as my human pet! Phew! Who knew they are not as smart as an animal behaviorist? Now, I have no cat walk around the fence!
ReplyDeleteDiego
That's the coolest thing I've seen lately! Excellent idea; I have to make sure my humans read the letter.
ReplyDeleteAnd you two look so relax :-)
CAT Victoria
Kudos to Vicky! Hey, George....where is your cat walk? Guess....you have to send Celia back to school :-)
ReplyDeleteLove
Fluffy & Cayenne
My mummy grew-up in Zimbabwe! That's how I got my name :-)
ReplyDeleteShumba
Can you ask Vicky how can I get a cat walk if I don't have a fence around my territory? My humans have this idea of "open space" in the backyard that I hate anyway.
ReplyDeleteMinnie
Nimai and Syama....I envy you! Not that I don't live a happy life....but, I don't have a catwalk.
ReplyDeleteFrederico
Wow! Your catwalk is the ultimate cat's meow! And it seems very French:-)))
ReplyDeleteA votre sante!
Porthos
Hi Shuma,
ReplyDeleteOur mum also grew up (or grew) in Zimbabwe:)
Dear Minnie - our mum also has or had some freestanding bits of the catwalk - they looked like bizarre sculptures but provided excellent lookout posts of the pathetic dogs next door. I would send photos but sadly they have fallen into disrepair as our mum lacks maintenance skills...
Yours truly
Nimai (secretary to Syama)