NaturallyResilient

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Callie was from outer space. That is the only explanation. She was the most unusual cat that has ever owned me. Last Wednesday I told how she would get on the roof and back down. I did not tell you about her jump.

You see other cats jump. They make this nice arc in the air and land on a surface. Callie did not arc. She went straight up then over and down with her legs hanging loose under her. It was like she levitated. When she walked, she marched, left, right, left, right, lifting her left side in unison and then the right legs. I always wondered how she managed not to fall over (she probably thought the same about us).

At one point while Callie was with us, we moved out on to 68 acres with a mobile home. About 50 feet behind this house was a barbed wire fence and a lot of scrub and thorny vine growing close to it. One day as I watched, Callie headed toward the brush and disappeared into it. I paced her through the brush although I could not see her. I was wondering where she would come out. Soon she came out about 100 feet down from where she had gone in and I was staring straight at her. I had paced her correctly however now she had a shrew in her mouth! We always joked that she had a refrigerator of shrews back there.

While living in this mobile home we installed a cat door with a small 1foot x 1foot platform outside just large enough for a cat to jump up on and then come in the cat door. One night we awoke to a “thump, thump, thump” coming from the living room. Paul got up to see what was going on. There hopping around the living room was a full grown rabbit and Callie looking smug.

We could not figure out how she had managed to jump (excuse me, levitate) on to the small platform three feet off the ground with a full grown rabbit. I know she had to let go of it to push it through the cat door and that was why it was hopping around the living room. We put the uninjured rabbit back outside past the fenced in yard. Maybe Callie had decided to move her refrigerator into the house.