Another bit of random silliness

The other day, I was playing around with Ball on a string, which I nabbed from the loverly snowgrouse, and my cat, Trixie caught sight of it. LIke Noki, she was much confused, trying to grab the ball through the glass screen.

Then, she did something I did not expect. She stood up on her hind legs, on the desk, and tried to see inside the computer from the top, to see if she could reach in and grab hold of the ball that way.

Is it just me? or is this understanding of spatial relationships unusual in cats (or has anyone even thought to study this)?

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Top 5 Samhain⁺ (aka Halloween) costumes I've dreamt up but have never actually worked out the logistics in order to pull off⁺⁺:

#5: A bronze statue of a dragon-slaying knight (I once saw a craft show where the host demonstrated how to make faux bronze out of brown paper, white glue and candle smoke).

#4: A gryphon -- with black and gold plumage.

#3: A little green space man in a silver flying saucer

#2: A pot of gold at the end of a rainbow (The pot would be fit around my wheelchair, and I'd wear a sky blue sweatshirt with cotton batting stuck around my neck and wrist cuffs for clouds; I'd paint a vertical rainbow on my face with stage facepaint, and somehow make a hat in the shape of a giant rainbow arch. For candy, I'd give out little bags of chocolate coins, natch).

and (drumroll)

#1: Mother Goose and her gander (The body of the goose would be fit around my chair, and my legs would be done as goose legs, and I'd make the gander's head out of a foam ball and a length of vaccuum hose, so I could move it by the reins, as a puppet. I'd be dressed as MG from the waist up, with false human legs hanging from my waist, slipped just under the armrests of my chair to make it look like I'm astride the gander. If I can hook up with a couple of other people, to dress as bo peep, Little Boy Blue, the Fiddling Cat & Co., so much the better).

⁺In the Neo-Pagan calendar, at least, Samhain is considered the new year in the cosmic sense, so a couple of these are what I would wear to symbolise my hopes for the coming year. Can you guess which ones? ... not really a challenge, I am so obvious!

⁺⁺If you can figure out how to adapt any of these for your own use, please feel free!