Chris disturbs Abbey’s nap.
When we first got abbey, we soon pinned a nickname on her, “The Topper”, because she would poop and not bury it. She would just leave it on top for everyone to see…and smell. Chris could also be considered a topper because he is always plopping himself down on top of someone, or something. As I write this he just went from bothering me and plopped himself on Abbey who is graciously licking his ears. (Can you tell I am trying to avoid the lay, lie, laid. lain dilemma?)
Chris napping on Tigger
We feel bad for Chris sometimes because he is like the kid that nobody wants to play with…or nap with. Sometimes we think about getting another hyperactive cat that he can be friends with. That could work or it could be the stupidest idea since New Coke.
Abbey annoyed with Chris.
Chris’s obsession with being on top doesn’t stop with the other cats. As I mentioned before, he is always on my shoulders, especially right after I get out of the shower. He stands on top of the counter waiting for me. This really makes it hard to dry up, brush my teeth, shave, etc.
He also lies on Rose and I while we watch tv. He’s on me for a couple of minutes, then he moves to Rose, then to me, then off to who knows where and soon the cycle starts over again.
Chris on top of Tigger & next to Alex.
Then there’s the cabinets. He jumps on the counters, then the refrigerator, then to the top of the cabinets. Sometimes he jumps across to the cabinets on the other wall. He likes to lie up there and roll around. I always feared he would roll off and fall.
Chris on China Cabinet
He also gets on top the China cabinet. He jumps from Rose’s living room chair to the fireplace mantle and then to the top of the Cabinet. After she decorated the mantle with breakable items and put other decorations on the China cabinet, we assumed he could not get up there so he would quit trying. Wrong! He jumps up there like Ricochet Rabbit without disturbing any of the decorations.
He also gets on top of Rose’s curio cabinet. That is six and a half feet tall and too far from anything to jump from. She also has wooden boxes along the top that he almost never disturbs. It was a mystery how he got up there until I saw him out of the corner of my eye. He stands on the bathroom counter and jumps through the doorway. It’s a long jump and I am worried he will bring the cabinet down on top of him someday. Fortunately he seems to have lost interest lately.
Bad Cat Chris 
“We feel bad for Chris sometimes because he is like the kid that nobody wants to play with…or nap with. Sometimes we think about getting another hyperactive cat that he can be friends with.”
This sounds like my cat Zooey! She climbs on everything, and is a *little* overly-enthusiastic for her cohort Baseball (although he’s the one who stands in the bathroom sink waiting to get on my shoulders to “help” me with my makeup in the morning!).
Thats funny. What is with cats in the bathroom? We had a cat, Princess (who I will mention again soon in my posts) that would sit on the bathroom sink and demand I turn on the water so she could drink it.
Haha, Baseball does that too! Obviously whoever said cats hate water never had a housecat 😉
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Chris hasn’t changed much since I wrote this although his added girth does mean he now lies more “next to” than “on top of” the other cats.
Bless him..he’s a cling-on Cleo is similar..and when she leaps off you it is without warning amd always painful! we found out she would get on the ensuite bathroom basin..leap into the wardrobe on the lower shelf the do some weirdo move and get up to the top ..where she sleeps on a suit case..but the fridge is good too…i am sure the other kids really love him 🙂
Sometimes Rose gets up first in the morning and Chris comes in, jumps on the bed and then haphazardly jumps on me without regard for what part of my body he is jumping on.
Yes the seem haphazard don’t they ???? or……
Oh my, Chris is definitely one hyper cat. But it is rather frightful to think of TWO hyper cats in the same home *shudders*