This post was from two and a half years ago and Puck still can’t ride my shoulders like Chris can.
When I met Rose, we both had an eight year old son living with us. My son, Chris, was somewhat easy-going and spent too much time indoors playing video games. (Just a side note: Bad Cat Chris was not named after my son. That is the name he had when we got him. See “What’s in a Name“) Rose’s son, Nick, was hyper-active and it was difficult to keep him in the house. When we all moved in together, we thought Nick would motivate Chris to go outside, but instead, Chris got Nick interested in video games. I don’t know if undesirable behavior is more influential or not, but in our household, that seems to be the case.
Take Puck for example. He came to us as a kitten and had surprisingly good behavior, but lately he seems to be picking up some of Chris’s habits. Recently he…
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Bad Cat Chris 
It’s kind of like that here – any bad behavior on Boodie’s part usually happens because she saw Binga do it first.
There is always one in every family. 🙂
MOL We seem to be da opposite. Me has learned many good fings fwum sis Lexi and vice versa. And she dusn’t follow any of da bad habits me formed and instead twies to stop me. Me finks me has 2 mommies. MOL Da shoulder twick is a twicky one fur sure tho’. Da human has to have da wight shoulders to balance on in da furst place. Good Luck Puck, yous’ll get it figgered out.
Luv ya’
Dezi and Lexi
I don’t know how Chris learned to balance on my shoulders but he has always been a natural.
Sum cats just have it. Me duz it a lot but sis Lexi has never even twied it. Mommy sez she had one uddeer kitty dat did it too.
Luv ya’
Dezi and Lexi