These should be common sounds to a father of a three year old and a 6 year old, and , for the most part, it is. At 11:30 at night it is a little unsettling though. I can hear them run, slide across the floor, and then crash into something. They are climbing all over the furniture, knocking stuff over, and making a big mess. Oh, , , not my kids, the cats!
If you remember from long ago, my cat, Chopstick, was pregnant. She had two kittens and one had to be put to sleep due to a birth defect. At our daughter's request, we decided to keep the other one, Wasabi.
Wasabi is now a couple of months old and just learning that he can jump really high onto things. Kittens, not unlike human children, think just because they can do something that they should. Again like human children, they are incredibly clumsy. On its own, it can be somewhat humerous to watch this ball of fur jump for and miss targets. Oh, but Wasabi has help.
Chopstick, like any good cat mother, is teaching her kitten how to survive in the wild. This means that the lessons include fighting, pouncing, sneek attacks, and high speed chases. Wasabi is a very quick study and practices his lessons every waking hour. When petting him, he attacks your hand. When walking, he attacks your feet. When still, he attacks something to make you move so he can attack it.
This is very fun to watch. The fight scenes are something that the Matrix creators only dreamed of choreographing. changes of direction mid air, death defying leaps, running full speed into a wall only to go up the wall instead of crash. Yes, it is an action movie every night and the entire house is the set.
