Verticular kittenous skirmish

Now, I know I write about my cat a lot, and perhaps I find her funnier and more interesting than all of you out there, however she is constantly good fodder for blog entries. Take today, for example. Garrett came over this afternoon, and because it wasn't super cold out, we let Pumpkin go outside for a little bit. As soon as Garrett let her out the door, though, she took off like a bat outta hell. This is because the neighbour's little white kitty (aka Pumpkin's arch nemesis) happened to be just outside the door when the hound was released. Woosh! These two crazy kitties bolt off behind the garage, whereupon Garrett hears hissing, mrowing and the usual cat fight noises that we are all familiar with. Garrett came to grab me from inside and we headed out to survey the situation. Not only had the cats ran behind the garage, they had CLIMBED up a tree as well. And not just a little tree. Oh no, Pumpkin was only about 8 feet up the tree, however little white kitty was about 20 feet up, clinging to a teeny little branch. We were trying to grab Pumpkin and bring her down, because she was sort of stuck, when for some reason (I still can't fathom why), the little white kitty started climbing back down the tree...passing right next to Pumpkin who clung to the same tree trunk. As you can imagine, the cat fight resumed, in a vertical-kitty-tree position. It was really quite hilarious to watch, as both cats tried to hang on to the trunk and get at each other. The engagement only lasted several seconds before little white kitty jumped (er...fell) to the ground and took off outta there.

In the mean time, Pumpkin was still stuck in the same spot, so we watched her for awhile until she was farther down the tree and we deemed her capable of making her way out on her own. Garrett brought the camera out to take some pictures of her, but she was almost extricated from the tree by this time, so what you see below is what we got: The next photo is a funny one of her walking through the snow, with a very displeased look on her face. She seemed to have forgotten that if she went the other way around the garage, she could walk on the cleared path...instead she trekked through the snow. We've never really claimed that she's a smart cat, after all...