We have our own personal catwalk in our bedroom. Just for two. His and hers. Seven feet off the ground. And it gets used on a daily basis.
It didn't start out as a catwalk. The designer would probably be insulted to know of its current use.
The catwalk is actually the canopy of our bed. Now I know I'll get lots of mail about this, but I was always taught that if a bed had four tall posts but no frame between the tops of the posts that it was a tester bed. If it had a frame at the top of the posts (with or without linens hanging from the frame) then it was a canopy bed. Our canopy bed has no linens hanging from the frame.
That frame is the catwalk. And it's used by cats. Thing 1 and Thing 2 figured out how to jump onto the frame from the headboard. Not only do they walk on it, they perch on it to watch while we putter around the bedroom. They also stalk each other on it.
Thing 1 has a habit of following Thing 2 closely and swatting at her back legs to trip her and knock her off. He doesn't share well. There are countless scratch marks where Thing 2 has tried to hold on for dear life, her ears back in fear, and her eyes wide, as she's tried to push herself back onto the catwalk.
The worst part of having the catwalk right over our heads is when one or both are sitting on the rail when it's time for the humans to go to bed. First the lights go off, but sleep doesn't follow quickly. We're waiting to the muffled thud of a cat jumping onto the mattress from the frame.
It's that fear that one of them will land on our heads.
Sunday
3 weeks ago
HAHAHAHAHAA, I am dying in laughter over here! Oh, geez, the visual! I have 2 cats and 2 canopy beds, but only once has one of them tried to make that leap to Heaven to the rails. In a split second the most awful wail sounded and I turned to see Lucy hanging by a foot for dear life. But you know what happens when you try to help: they won't let go and then the nails dig even deeper. Gawd, what a day that was. THAT canopy I took down; the other is still over my head and woe to the fur ball that tries to jump it. Lol, I'd love your cats :D
ReplyDeleteSo that is what a tester bed is! I always thought that was called a four-poster bed. Which I have - without the rails. I had one with the rails, which I really liked - I never put a canopy on it, but I did have a single linen which hung from the rail at the headboard end. When I had occasion to move from the house of my friend(?) Tiko, I left the bed, but missed it - so when I got my own house I bought another but saved $200 plus by not buying the upper rails - which I now regret. Happily (or no), neither here nor there were there cats to walk thereon.
ReplyDeleteHand Clapping Happy Laugh. Thanks for sharing your cat story. :)
ReplyDeleteI would love them too. Can you put their pictures in one day? I love this story and I love imagining all of that. Especially the thud as one or both land on the mattress. I'm grinning from ear to ear.
ReplyDeleteSo now I know what to get my cats for Christmas! (I, too, love the visual - thanks for the chuckle this morning!)
ReplyDeleteI too am laughing when I read that post, I can just picture it, but I'm sorry I read it as I'm off to bed in a minute and it's not the most sensible of things to do, that is go to bed laughing, I do hope I sleep, BTW the names are such originals. Priceless,
ReplyDeleteWhy do I have to keep having my comments approved WIfie, don't you trust me yet, maybe you or Blogger think I'm an enemy agent LOL now I'll have to be approved ......again.
ReplyDeleteyou must take a video of this & put it on youtube, i've got a friend who loves seeing cool cats strut their stuff :)
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