• Krudler@lemmy.world
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    My cat Parker ran up the tree out front. I just looked at him and said “ok fuckface, see you when you decide to come down”.

    He could sense my tone of voice, and just shimmied his ass back down. It was hilarious.

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        Oh yeah, he was totally in rascally play mode. I love rascally play mode, but not when it’s bring out a ladder and go through the motions of rescue play mode LOL

        I had never seen a cat’s ass just wiggle itself backwards down a tree before, always more of a “suicide dive” while kind of running down the trunk, and then sprint to safety when they land

        I guess Parker could sense when I started to turn my back on him that I was not having any of it that day lol

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    A couple people here have suggested wet food to lure the cat down, but when mine found a spot abouve the cabinets that was much easier to get up than down that solution crossed my mind for only an instant before I realized it would probably only take one more go for him to realize there’s a huge incentive to risking injury.

    He would do this thing when he was angry where he would howl like a dog to make sure everyone within earshot understood the severity of whatever great injustice had taken place, and not taking him down when he wanted to be was definitely one of those cases. I’d give him maybe an hour to get his screaming in before getting around to helping him.

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      You ever had a cat? When unobserved quantum state takes over and they are everywhere and nowhere at once.

      Screen doors and old storm doors from the 80s are also notoriously bad at keeping a fat orange cat inside when the brain cell is too busy to understand the barriers to keep the outside out also are meant to keep the inside in.

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      Haven’t ever seen a dead cat in a tree or on a roof in my life. Some folks need to let nature be nature.

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        Oh ty your preferred flavour of sky daddy! Since you have yet to see such a thing it musn’t be a thing!

        Well, I did! I had to climb on my pops roof to get it down

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      If this is regular height roof the cat can simply jump down and land on its feet, or it can use the drainage pipe for support. In my experience cats always check very carefully whether they can come down prior to climbing up. Only exception might be kittens.

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    Were we the only family that said “the cat will be fine” in literally every scenario? She’s gonna fuck off for a day. She’s on the roof. She’s sleeping in the engine bay of the car. Who cares? She’s a cat. She died quietly in her sleep at 16 years old by the way.

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    He got so much attention, love and affection the last time he was up there, no wonder he did it again.

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    Was redoing the floors in one my rooms, I had all the air vent covers off. Guess where the cat decided to go?

    Was like the god damn scene from poltergeist where you could hear it all over the house but didn’t know where exactly the meows orginated from echoing through the ductwork.

    I forgot how I coaxed it to an exit, but I do recall grabbing it by the scruff and yanking it out as the cat tried to scamper back in. Went to go clean-up my scratches and the damn thing knocked over what I blocked the vent with and squeezed back in.

    At that point I was tempted to just turn on the furnace heat and call it a day. But didn’t want to deal with the stink.

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    The cat after being brought down: aw shit here we go again

    You after seeing your cat got back on the roof: aw shit here we go again