Woohoo, look at me! I’m posting on a Wednesday; I’m being . . .spontaneous! It is all about the spontanaiety. Spontenaeity? Damn, I still can’t spell.
As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been having some trouble with Renton constantly getting onto the top of the refrigerator. I believe his motive is to get his daily fabric fix by munching on the dishtowels that I keep up there; which, by the by, I put up there so he could not get them from the magnetic hook on the frige door. Apparently all this has done is given him a challenge that he had to accept.
Yesterday, after finding my oven mitts on the floor with a munching Renton attached to them, I went back to Tape Deflection Mode. I guessed that he got to the top of the fridge via the adjacent counterspace, so I covered the entire area with packaging tape, sticky side up. “Try it now, cat! You just might get into a sticky situation indeed.” I laughed my evil laugh.
Alas, it seems that Renton does not use the counter to get up there. I’ve come to two conclusions. Either he has a ridiculous amount of gadgets that he uses to raise himself up then levitate across to the fridge like a furry Tom Cruise out of Mission: Impossible . . . or he is able to jump from the kitchen floor clear up to the top of the fridge, which I am guessing is about six feet high. It’s taller than me, for sure, because I had to grasp up there blindly this morning until I got him by his tail and dragged him down to reality.
While he was still in the bathroom serving ‘Punishment Time’ afterwards, I rigged up a bunch of boxes to put on top of the fridge to add another foot and a half, and I then covered those boxes with more packaging tape, sticky side up. If he is desperate enough to get up there, he better be able to clear seven feet easily while covered in oil.
So far, I do not think he has made an attempt. Either that or he got up there, laughed at my stupidity, then reset everything, including the packaging tape, exactly like he found it.
And if he can do that, then why can’t he learn to keep his toys from the crack under the laundry door that leads to the Black Hole of All Kitty Toys?
Such a strange cat.