We have in our bedroom an 8 foot tall shelf that runs along on wall over our closet space. Unless a cat climbs up the clothes (which has happened more times than I wish to count!) There is no discernable way for a cat to get up to that shelf because it holds things that cats can get in trouble for playing with:shoes, purses, fur hats etc.. I have caught Delilah up there several times now in the past few days. She has taken a liking to mike’s Alaska fur hat! I remove her immediately and look at the clothes which are not hanging astray nor are the hangers swinging in the breeze and the clothes they were holding were not in the litter pans below. How the devil was this cat doing this?

Last night, Mike’s on a new CPAP machine and it is noisy, so I went into the bedroom to sleep and the mystery is solved. We have motion detectors in the room. Delilah will jump on a small dresser that is about 4 feet away from the shelf (near the door of the room) From there, I watched her gauge the distance to the top of the doorframe. The door was propped halfway open. She leaps to the top of the door. And because it won’t budge, she started rocking slowly back and forth until it disengaged from the door opener and swung over to the closet (no doors on our closet) once it was all the way opened- she merely had to step over and get on the shelf! Now how do you combat that intelligence? LOL

Now she has a ladder:

I am waiting for 8:00 for the vet to open. Raleigh started gurgling last night. I thought at first he was purring. He had been outside and I scooped him up in my arms and he was making this noise- but then I realized it wasn’t a purr. He also has a deep intermittent hacking cough. I tried to stick him finger down his throat to see if something was obstructing his throat and he bit me. My fault totally. I used to be able to do it quicker. Guess I am getting old. I put him in a the small enclosure with a humidifier and heater going where he spent the night. He is eating and drinking. My guess is he is coming down with pneumonia, his eyes look wonky to me. Vet opens in ten minutes. I pray they can work us in.

1:00 update- pneumonia has been ruled out. No discharge from eyes and nose- no sneezing just the hacking cough. Lungs sound full so they gave him a cortisone shot and some antibiotic. Ben said if the antibiotic fails to help with the issue and the cortisone does not decrease the inflammation than this 1 year old kitty has asthma. He was just like his color- solid gold with Ben. I am not sure where he was for 48 hours but with all this rain somehow fluid got into his lungs. He is home now and picking fights with Coop so I think he is feeling better! LOL