Or maybe I should say a "Little Bit" of a problem.
I had gone outside to see if Lorelei was ready to come in and take a nap in the catcam chair (Mystie ended up in it) and I noticed the cats all hanging around the Liquid Amber tree, looking up. And I heard rustling up there.
We’ve got a huge flock of parrots or some sort of bird like that (I took video earlier this week and will get it up this weekend) and I heard them in the neighborhood, so I kind of thought maybe there was some big ass bird up there. I went over to take a closer look. Bigger bird? Huh uh. Little cat. A little bit of a cat. Yeah, you guessed it. Little Bit was in the tree. And she wanted down.
Now, how the hell she got up there was beyond me. I tried to coax and clap (you know, when you clap your hands) her down, but nothing worked. So, I came inside, went into the master bath, where Brian was taking a shower. “Uh, honey, Little Bit is in the amber tree.” I don’t think he thought he heard me right and when it sunk in and I’d left the room, I heard him saying “s#it!”. He quickly finished his shower and I went back outside.
By this time she was really ready to get down, so she jumped down, I’d say about eight or ten feet (it was a diagonal jump). It apparantly stung a little from the way she shook her front paws, but she didn’t seem to be limping or anything like that.
By the time she’d run off and into one of the cathouses, Brian was dressed and out. He moved the swing (which she likes to lay on top of) from it’s position by the tree (a long jump to the tree, can’t really say we think that was how she got up there) and went into his shop and got some pruners. He did some much needed pruning of the bottom branches of the amber tree and disposed of the branches. Today, he’s going to fashion another barrier for the tree, one similar to the barriers around the pine trees.
There was no further problem yesterday. This morning, I did see Little Bit sitting on a little stumpy branch near the current barrier, but she didn’t stay there. She was back in her spot down by a palm tree by the pool, laying in the grass when we went to breakfast.
These cats are gonna give me a heart attack one of these days.
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