My daughter, who is in her early 20's but is currently back in the family home, has a cat who is Bengal and Maine Coon. He has stripes, almost like a raccoon, so she named him Meeko after the Disney character of the raccoon in Pocahontas.
He lives up to his name, as he is full of mischief.
The past few days, he seemingly developed magical powers, appearing from places he's not supposed to have access to.....
But let me start back in 1998, when we saw a "for sale by owner" sign on a house about a mile from a friend's camp. It wasn't the cleanest walk-through, but the house had a wide-open floor plan that promised lots of solar gain in winter, when we'd need extra warmth. There were nifty little nooks and crannies from the seller adding on a section. There were a couple of minor things noted by the inspector that had to be fixed before we got the loan to go through, but it was an old farmhouse with it's own special character.
We're still finding interesting things from the "adding on a section" bit that are kinda scary, in a way, but sometimes just fun, as Meeko has demonstrated with his magic act.....
Meeko is, and always has been, an indoor cat. This doesn't mean that he wouldn't LIKE to try outside, but he gets afraid when something strange happens and panics, so outside is something we try to avoid.
The garage, where there are rakes, shovels, picks, and other implements of destruction to do damage to an unwary cat. There are also spots where chiipmunks and squirrels have been coming in since day one, and considering the size of some of those squirrels...
So Meeko is NOT allowed in the garage, even long enough to allow me to get something out of the large chest freezer that's in constant use. Imagine my surprise when, just a couple of days ago, I was going out to get something from the freezer - and Meeko breezed past me, rubbing my leg on his way in from the garage.
I asked my husband if he'd been in the garage since arriving home, as I hadn't been in the garage all day. He didn't recall going out there, but admitted to being tired, so we wrote it off.
And then it happened again last night.end
He came and greeted me as I came home, and both his "mama" and "Grampa" were right there, finishing fixing a light fixture that had fallen apart. The next project was repairing a storm door handle, so I sat down on the one set of stairs that leads to that door to watch for the animals, not wishing to chase dog or cat down the road....
That was when Meeko turned up missing.
I went through the house while my daughter went outside and started circling the house, looking for signs he'd managed to sneak past. When I opened the garage door, a very smug looking cat was sitting on the third step down. He wasn't outside, but he was back in a place where no door had been opened to allow him access. This time, we went looking for the secret way he was getting out there, and found a spot where we had thought there was a wooden wall. It was just cardboard and a thin layer of fiberglass insulation...
Smoke and mirrors, as many other portions of this place seems to have been built.
So we lock the cat up and look at ways to either fix the spot or keep him out of the basement. There are no support beams. Door lock it is, so that gets accomplished. Meeko is let out of lock up. In short order, he's disappeared again. Open the garage door. There he is.
Another hole is found and plugged. Another disappearance. Another cat in the garage find. This continues all evening, until finally, we've found all the little spots he's found to gain access from the upstairs to the basement. The disappearances finally end, and he's spent the entire day looking for new access - and glaring at all the humans in the house.
We seem to have temporarily blocked his magic, but like Harry Potter, I expect he's plotting on how to get back his wand and disappear again.....
He lives up to his name, as he is full of mischief.
The past few days, he seemingly developed magical powers, appearing from places he's not supposed to have access to.....
But let me start back in 1998, when we saw a "for sale by owner" sign on a house about a mile from a friend's camp. It wasn't the cleanest walk-through, but the house had a wide-open floor plan that promised lots of solar gain in winter, when we'd need extra warmth. There were nifty little nooks and crannies from the seller adding on a section. There were a couple of minor things noted by the inspector that had to be fixed before we got the loan to go through, but it was an old farmhouse with it's own special character.
We're still finding interesting things from the "adding on a section" bit that are kinda scary, in a way, but sometimes just fun, as Meeko has demonstrated with his magic act.....
Meeko is, and always has been, an indoor cat. This doesn't mean that he wouldn't LIKE to try outside, but he gets afraid when something strange happens and panics, so outside is something we try to avoid.
The garage, where there are rakes, shovels, picks, and other implements of destruction to do damage to an unwary cat. There are also spots where chiipmunks and squirrels have been coming in since day one, and considering the size of some of those squirrels...
So Meeko is NOT allowed in the garage, even long enough to allow me to get something out of the large chest freezer that's in constant use. Imagine my surprise when, just a couple of days ago, I was going out to get something from the freezer - and Meeko breezed past me, rubbing my leg on his way in from the garage.
I asked my husband if he'd been in the garage since arriving home, as I hadn't been in the garage all day. He didn't recall going out there, but admitted to being tired, so we wrote it off.
And then it happened again last night.end
He came and greeted me as I came home, and both his "mama" and "Grampa" were right there, finishing fixing a light fixture that had fallen apart. The next project was repairing a storm door handle, so I sat down on the one set of stairs that leads to that door to watch for the animals, not wishing to chase dog or cat down the road....
That was when Meeko turned up missing.
I went through the house while my daughter went outside and started circling the house, looking for signs he'd managed to sneak past. When I opened the garage door, a very smug looking cat was sitting on the third step down. He wasn't outside, but he was back in a place where no door had been opened to allow him access. This time, we went looking for the secret way he was getting out there, and found a spot where we had thought there was a wooden wall. It was just cardboard and a thin layer of fiberglass insulation...
Smoke and mirrors, as many other portions of this place seems to have been built.
So we lock the cat up and look at ways to either fix the spot or keep him out of the basement. There are no support beams. Door lock it is, so that gets accomplished. Meeko is let out of lock up. In short order, he's disappeared again. Open the garage door. There he is.
Another hole is found and plugged. Another disappearance. Another cat in the garage find. This continues all evening, until finally, we've found all the little spots he's found to gain access from the upstairs to the basement. The disappearances finally end, and he's spent the entire day looking for new access - and glaring at all the humans in the house.
We seem to have temporarily blocked his magic, but like Harry Potter, I expect he's plotting on how to get back his wand and disappear again.....
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