> Mandy was a good old cat. She was a large Calico, mostly white and the climbingest cat you ever saw!

I have another cat, and when he was a kitten [before he was declawed in the front] he would literally climb up people's legs. Just stick his claws into their jeans and work his way up. Unfortunately, he usually got some skin in the process. I was the only one who thought it was cute.

> She almost killed me once. I was up on the roof cleaning out the rain gutters. I'm not comportable with heighths and there I was leaning out over the edge of the highest part of the house and something rubs up against my behind. I almost fell off the roof!!! She had climbed a dogwood tree and leaped four feet to the roof and was just being friendly.
> Howard

Sounds familiar... my first cat [mine, not the family's] would jump off our front deck, which is on the second story. Usually if we watched him, we could pull him away from the edge in time to save the paint job on his favorite landing site-- the car. One day he decided to branch out into other sites-- namely Dad's head.

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