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Kitten doesn't know it's impossible: (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Dec 2017 OP
Velcro cat! House of Roberts Dec 2017 #1
Super Kitten defies gravity! Arkansas Granny Dec 2017 #2
Kitten went up my wife's leg once. Throck Dec 2017 #3
For kitten's next trick, he learns how to spackle Dennis Donovan Dec 2017 #4
One of those textured wallpapers? cstanleytech Dec 2017 #5
That's what I was wondering...nt 2naSalit Dec 2017 #6
high hopes.... marble falls Dec 2017 #7
Literally, LOL! Rhiannon12866 Dec 2017 #8
Like my mother once told me: cats get down by themselves, there's no cat skeletons in trees! marble falls Dec 2017 #9
Well, up thread they suggested that it's textured wallpaper - but that doesn't mean he would stick! Rhiannon12866 Dec 2017 #10
For the most part that is true. gordianot Dec 2017 #12
I did once find a squirrel skeleton in a tree csziggy Dec 2017 #13
(sigh!) Pussums are such athletes. . . DinahMoeHum Dec 2017 #11

Throck

(2,520 posts)
3. Kitten went up my wife's leg once.
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 06:35 AM
Dec 2017

Up her skirt.

She danced really fast that day.

It was funny for me.

Slept on the couch that night.

Rhiannon12866

(205,204 posts)
8. Literally, LOL!
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 08:57 AM
Dec 2017

I was just wishing that this went on for a few more seconds to make sure the girl got the little one down - but I realize that wasn't the point of the clip.

Rhiannon12866

(205,204 posts)
10. Well, up thread they suggested that it's textured wallpaper - but that doesn't mean he would stick!
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 09:08 AM
Dec 2017

And I've seen my cat fall - not often, but it's happened. He likes to climb up to the top of the cat tree and he sometimes spies something - a spot or a bug - and becomes so obsessed in reaching it that he loses his balance. He's never had a bad fall, there are levels on the "tree," but there's nothing to catch the kitten but the girl!

gordianot

(15,237 posts)
12. For the most part that is true.
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 10:17 AM
Dec 2017

I have witnessed a fatal cat fall from a tree. Even more amazing I have witnessed fatal tree falls of squirrels. I might go for a kitten but the squirrels are on their own.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
13. I did once find a squirrel skeleton in a tree
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 07:39 PM
Dec 2017

I suspect it had been the victim of a shrike, aka butcher bird. They can kill small to medium prey but their beaks are not strong enough to rip their prey apart. So they hang their victims on trees or fences and wait until they are rotted enough to pick at.

The squirrel skeleton was hanging way out at the end of a limb, not a place likely for a squirrel to go to die but a good spot for a shrike to hang a carcass.

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