My Cat Contemplates

Mimi not only contemplates, she plots. I have come to the conclusion that she is capable of doing so even when she sleeps. Perhaps she fakes sleep to put me off guard because I notice she cocks an ear to catch the direction of sounds when she appears to be sleeping.  Her curiosity knows no bounds, but the inquisitiveness she exhibits usually takes the form of snooping.

Not being a natural born cat person, I am constantly amazed at the machinations’ of cat behavior. Sometimes Mimi is overtly crafty and if caught in some act, quickly pretends loving affection and tries to groom my skin and sniff my hands or face.

One of Mimi’s favorite games is finding the highest level in the apartment where she can sit as watch guard, or safely take a nap. She tests the waters, so to speak, and is clever in finding ways to attain her objective.

A few days ago I repositioned several pieces of furniture, mainly two chests of drawers. Neither had been used by Mimi in her games of mountain climbing since they are too high for her to jump on. The place the chests have been moved to now create the tantalizing possibility of her reaching the highest surface achieved to date in her nine lives.

She hasn’t yet determined that a leap from the window sill to the top of one chest can be achieved without misstep; consequently, she sits on the sill and calculates the distance. An object on top of the chest complicates the situation because she can’t see whether or not it stands where she would land if the leap was successful, thus, a conundrum.

It’s only a matter of time though before Mimi attempts the jump, since cat dilemmas are persistently studied until solutions are found.