Many years ago, I bought my wife a doll house kit, a two-story, two-bedroom house with a wrap-around porch and real cedar shingles. We built the doll house and have had it for years, but we never finished it completely. It has gone through many moves and has suffered various degrees of neglect, but we would not give it up. Currently, it is sitting in the bay of the dining area of our house on a cabinet, surrounded on three sides by windows.
As fate would have it we now have three cats: Gadget, a female black cat about nine months old and two kittens about eleven weeks old, a gray male named Albert and a gray tabby female named Birdie.
Birdie is a natural climber and early on figured out how to climb onto the doll house. When one of my sons brings his three cats (Bandit, Brillo and Cammo) over for a "play date" (or when we are "cat sitting" for him) they all like to climb it and squeeze through the picture windows that never got finished and climb up on the roof. Albert, however, being a straight ahead sort, figured that he could just climb up the front of the cabinet. We could always tell when he had tried this approach because all he had succeeded in doing was to pull down the books on the shelves of the cabinet.
Lately, however, Albert has learned that an indirect approach works best, that is from a chair to the cabinet. Now we are treated to epic kitten battles that would make Toho Studios proud. We may not have a miniature model Tokyo for an actor in a rubber Godzilla suit to destroy, but what we lack in production values is made up for in live spontaneous action. Free kittens may cost a lot in upkeep, but they are a great entertainment value.
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