{"id":3446,"date":"2011-09-12T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/?p=3446"},"modified":"2011-09-12T18:19:14","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T22:19:14","slug":"bring-on-the-squirrels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/bring-on-the-squirrels\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring on the Squirrels!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editors Note: It’s been a while since we’ve heard from our buddy Zeuss Catt from Boston. With fall just around the corner, it got me to thinking of when I used to live in Upstate New York – it was right around this time that we would start to see squirrels getting ready for the upcoming winter. I happen to love squirrels, so you can imagine how happy I was when Zeuss decided to share this story about his own fascination with this creature.<\/p>\n

Fence Walking
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I’ve been studying squirrels lately, and their climbing habits. These small, spastic creatures have some impressive skills when it comes to avoiding a much smarter, handsome animal. Squirrels are able to climb anything, it seems, which facilitates their escape from yours truly. Fences, trees, houses, recycling bins… you name it, and a squirrel has climbed it.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been able to master climbing to some extent, but “there’s always room for improvement”. (Shout out to Morris the Cat, who coined that inspirational ditty.) Indoors, there’s nothing that I haven’t either climbed or jumped to the top of. Doors, shelves, appliances, furniture, curtain rods… all conquered, and conquered a second time. I’ve even conquered window-screen climbing, but I did that from the inside.<\/p>\n

So, inspired by the squirrel, I looked outdoors for my next challenge. And I found it.<\/p>\n

Fence-walking.<\/p>\n

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I began by practicing simply standing on the fence. This was tricky, but I was able to fit all four paws comfortably on the top of the fence so that I held my balance. I call this form of balancing “bird position”. Yes, I know- birds only have two legs.<\/p>\n

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Once balance was established, I began practicing walking. At first, I thought it was going to be easy. I was able to begin walking from bird position, and made my way over towards the house with little difficulty.<\/p>\n

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After a short break, I was turned around and walking in the other direction. I used careful steps and great concentration (did I mention that it was drizzling out?) to walk the 20ft. length of fence along the driveway. After a quick stop at the corner of the driveway, I continued the trek along the front sidewalk-side. All was going well, until I got distracted.<\/p>\n

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I couldn’t resist turning around to look at the car as it approached from my hindquarters, and that threw my balance off. I shook off disappointment, hopped right back up where I fell off, and continued on towards the gate. I wasn’t going to let a car distract me a second time!<\/p>\n

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That time, my slip had nothing to do with the car! It was drizzling out, and my paw slipped!<\/p>\n

Truth is, fence-walking isn’t as easy as squirrels make it look. Although next time, I’m practicing on a dry day.<\/p>\n

PS Belated birthday shout out to my dad Zee. He turned the big 06 earlier this week. Happy BDay, old cat!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editors Note: It’s been a while since we’ve heard from our buddy Zeuss Catt from Boston. With fall just around the corner, it got me to thinking of when I used to live in Upstate New York – it was right around this time that we would start to see squirrels getting ready for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1101],"tags":[1265,105,104,103,5,16],"class_list":["post-3446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zeuss-catt","tag-cats","tag-climbing","tag-fences","tag-squirrels","tag-zee","tag-zeuss-catt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t