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In reply to the discussion: What's the most intelligent thing your pet has ever done? [View all]Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,940 posts)10 or 12 hours. In the days after I would see him in the back yard, teaching himself how to shimmy up this one tall tree with no cross branches, hang there a second with all four paws and then lower himself back down using hind claws grip on the tree . Each time he would go up a little bit higher and then back down. One day he and the other cat Figgy were running around and in a fit of exuberance Figgy ran up one of the trees quite high and then realized he couldnt get back down. He hung there gripping the tree with all four paws crying pitifully. Orange came to the rescue - he ran up the tree behind Figgy and was meowing encouragement butpoor Figgy was too freaked out. So Orange went back down and then ran up the tree next to the one Figgy was in getting up high enough so Figgy could see and demonstrated several times how to back down. Finally Figgy understood and then I saw him too practicing in the days after. PS PLS NOTE- this was back in the day when people typically let cats run free so dont nobody yell at me!
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