I had to rescue my cat from the roof tonight

[yellowdogintexas]

stupid cat would not come down, much preferred to lounge around up there just out of reach of me on the ladder, rolling around, acting like he wanted me to pet him but wouldn't come down.

He gets up there by climbing my big huge front yard tree, then can't figure out how to get down. dumbass.

I wanted him inside because it is time to lock up for the night and the Invader Kitty will come in the house if I leave the pet door open, so I have been making sure all my boys are inside at night.

Apparantly there has been a pissing war of epic proportions going on behind my house as it really reeked back there. If it kills off the ground cover I may forgive them for the smell, just to get rid of that ground cover.

this would be Cat Zilla the great Roof Climber

Geez

[Longgrain]

1. I'm not sure about cats sometimes.

I'm too much of a dog person.

:-)

But your little Kit has my sympathys....:hug: I'd love to cuddle that little thing!

[yellowdogintexas]

2. oh he is the cuddle bear of our house, let me assure you!

loves his tummy rubbed, loves to sit in your lap, etc.

he is a sweetie:

he is the one in the front in this photo:


his brother Lewis is behind him. They are trying to hitch a ride to Wyoming with my husband

[Zuni]

6. They are handsome devils

who is the invader kitty? A neighborhood cat who has beef with your boys?

[yellowdogintexas]

10. neighborhood cat who just showed up and is trying to move

into our house. He just hasn't figured out that these four bigger and very strongly allied cats do not want him around.

Every night we would be awakened by a screaming match with our guys chasing him off the property. So I just started locking my boys in at night.

He is a fairly good sized orange tabby and I don't think he is neutered.

[hickman1937]

3. I'm probably going to sound cruel,

but sometimes they just have to be left there. My youngest(Crazy) was a constant door lurker, always trying to get out. He got very good at escaping. After two years of walking the neighborhood, banging his food can, flipping the can opener back and forth, to get him back, I just let him stay out. 3 days later he showed up on the patio, barreled in as soon as I opened the door, ate two bowls of food, and leaves the door alone now.

[CatWoman]

4. LOL

The same with Male.

The last time she got out was about 4 years ago -- during the SuperBowl.

She was gone nearly a month.

I don't know what happened, but she doesn't try to get out any more.

[hickman1937]

7. They get cut off from their food source,

and thats all she wrote. Cats are not stupid.

[Flaxbee]

5. who is The Invader Kitty?

Sounds like a superhero of sorts!

One of my cats growing up would stay on the roof and then would wait and judge how long the bedroom lights had been out (estimating how long it took us to go to sleep) and then he'd start plucking on the bedroom window screens while sitting on the ledge outside the second story windows. I used to always make sure he was in at night b/c we had wild dogs in the orange groves near our house, but one night he escaped (I think it was my dad who was careless at the door) and within 10 minutes of turning my lights out, he started his harp-screen symphony. Scared me silly the first time I heard it b/c it was late, I thought he was in, had never heard it before but when I looked out the window, there he was. From that night on, it was a habit for him.

[hickman1937]

8. Cat's definitly have a sense of humor.

Mine enrage me on a daily basis, then crack me up.

[karlrschneider]

9. If a cat can get up in/on something it can get down, I promise!

Ours has found a way (no idea how) to get up top of our shop building, it's 18 feet high. There IS a tree sort of close so that might be a way but it's a huge leap from there to the roof...but we gave up trying to "rescue" him...when he gets hungry, he reappears. His name is Spot and he very nearly didn't survive the first night we 'adopted' him...as a kitten, he hopped on top of me in bed and took a crap right on my chest.
:D

I guess the discipline worked, cause he never did THAT again. haha

But he's a great tabby...although I'd just as soon he didn't catch & drag in (through the kitty door) mice, rats, rabbits, snakes, squirrels, birds of every type -even a red-tailed hawk- once, frogs, crawfish...well pretty much anything.

[Pithlet]

11. Cars would actually stop in front of the house I grew up in

Because all four of our cats would be on the porch roof at the same time. My bedroom window overlooked the porch roof, and I'd let them out onto the roof to sun themselves. Sometimes I'd join them :)

[yellowdogintexas]

12. that is so funny!!1 I am having a great visual

thanks for the giggle