Post by Vicki on Oct 7, 2014 18:31:28 GMT
Unlike the situations with my previous cats and due to where we live, Roxie must be an indoor cat. I suspect she has never been in the great outdoors and would not know how to cope were I able to let her out so she must be content to watch the world from our many windows. Since we live off a busy street, there is plenty to watch like traffic, people passing by walking their dogs and chipmunks and squirrels who like to dine on acorns from the oak tree that drops them on our window sills. But Roxie is a curious cat so she never gives up poking her furry head where it doesn't belong.
Roxie and I live in a large apartment building with inside hallways leading to other apartments. I try to be careful when I leave my apartment because little Miss Roxie wants to see what's on the other side of the door. She managed to escape when I wasn't looking as I was coming back in from the mailbox in the lobby. We have double doors leading outside from the lobby so I knew she couldn't have gotten past me but when I didn't see her in her usual places in the apartment I got worried. Were she to get outside, I would be afraid she would hide in the foliage outside the building where I couldn't find her or worse, dash out in traffic. As mentioned,I doubt she is streetwise.
I went into the hallway and called but no Roxie. I looked everywhere in the apartment but there are so many places for a cat to hide, I couldn't be sure she wasn't there. Finally, after going through the main floor where of the hallway, I decided to think like a cat. Climb! I ventured up to the first floor, we are ground level. There she was, cowering on the first landing looking confused. I was afraid she would run but she didn't. She let me pick her up but squirming all the time.
I carried her back downstairs thinking this had cured her of her adventuring out the front door. I should have known. The Siamese in her will never be satisfied curiosity-wise. She still wants to know if there is more adventure on the other side of the door and perhaps on the upper floors.
Cats! What goes on in their furry little heads?
Roxie and I live in a large apartment building with inside hallways leading to other apartments. I try to be careful when I leave my apartment because little Miss Roxie wants to see what's on the other side of the door. She managed to escape when I wasn't looking as I was coming back in from the mailbox in the lobby. We have double doors leading outside from the lobby so I knew she couldn't have gotten past me but when I didn't see her in her usual places in the apartment I got worried. Were she to get outside, I would be afraid she would hide in the foliage outside the building where I couldn't find her or worse, dash out in traffic. As mentioned,I doubt she is streetwise.
I went into the hallway and called but no Roxie. I looked everywhere in the apartment but there are so many places for a cat to hide, I couldn't be sure she wasn't there. Finally, after going through the main floor where of the hallway, I decided to think like a cat. Climb! I ventured up to the first floor, we are ground level. There she was, cowering on the first landing looking confused. I was afraid she would run but she didn't. She let me pick her up but squirming all the time.
I carried her back downstairs thinking this had cured her of her adventuring out the front door. I should have known. The Siamese in her will never be satisfied curiosity-wise. She still wants to know if there is more adventure on the other side of the door and perhaps on the upper floors.
Cats! What goes on in their furry little heads?
