Thread: Coonies and heights

Haha Karen sounds like Wicca is the naughty one! Is it a black smoke thing, I wonder?

Originally Posted by Howlinbob

Haha Karen sounds like Wicca is the naughty one! Is it a black smoke thing, I wonder?

Let's put it this way: I no longer use the term 'naughty tortie'...!

I've not heard that they are poor jumpers. Certainly my 2 are very good at it! Especially Monty. He can jump clean onto the kitchen counter with inches to spare. Yesterday, he way overjumped onto the kitchen table, because he wanted to miss the fruit bowl, but he still landed with his back paws in it! He can also leap from the counter to the table, a fair distance of 5 or 6 feet. It's wonderful to see such an athletic creature, after being used to elderly moggies with dodgy back legs! Sounds like Teddy Bearz is a long, gangly, unco-ordinated clumsy clown of a cat, and he's having a lot of fun! Maybe he'll improve with practice. It took ages for Larry to learn how to jump. He's not as good as his brother, but he's not bad.

This is where I spotted Minnie and Monty yesterday evening. It immediately made me think of this thread, so of course I grabbed the camera.

That cupboard is about 2.3 metres tall. They reach the top from the open staircase next to it. The distance from the top shelf to the ceiling is about 10 cm... El Monto had to flatten himself almost to the thickness of a plaice.

That's really funny. Does make my skin crawl a bit when they get that high - it's one of the reasons I switched the igloo on the top of the Tigga Tower for another platform - shaves about half a meter off the height!

OH saw the picture of El Monto and thought it was Wicca!!

Originally Posted by FreyjaRoMaine

OH saw the picture of El Monto and thought it was Wicca!!

Well, their coloring is very similar... but Wicca's ears are about twice the size of El Monto's.

Love these pics Anna, Monty's looking very pleased with himself and very excited to be up so high! Aren't they funny, they do make us laugh so with their antics. As I've said before, it's better than telly.

Originally Posted by candes

Minnie is getting quite good looking.

Thanks candes. We are quite pleased with the way she's turning out. I will put up some more recent pics of her shortly.