Don’t Look Down!

With grace and precision, the mountain goat boldly leaps from rock to rock on the treacherous cliff face. He laughs at Death as his cloven hooves find their mark among the tiny outcroppings, as if he was part of the very rock itself. One slip could send him plunging into the icy waters of Lake Pupucaca, yet he feels no fear, his impeccable senses plotting every step of his daring journey… to the top… of the…

Heck.

I guess I really am the goat now.

Via Imgur.

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23 thoughts on “Don’t Look Down!

  1. allein ? June 5, 2017 / 3:01 pm

    American Ninja Warrior: Cat vs the World

    • Birdcage June 5, 2017 / 3:22 pm

      Dang – I was going to write that almost word-for-word.

      • allein ? June 5, 2017 / 3:30 pm

        Were you watching last night, too?

        • Smartypants June 5, 2017 / 6:07 pm

          I watched part of it – it was really cool to see the international teams.

  2. Dana June 5, 2017 / 3:10 pm

    3…..2……1……?

    • Dana June 5, 2017 / 4:05 pm

      I can’t even climb up a ladder without getting nauseous. This….I can’t begin to comprehend.

  3. Catwhisperer June 5, 2017 / 3:29 pm

    I had a cat that would always act like he wanted to get in the tub. So one night, I picked him up and held him above the water, expecting him to freak out. He didn’t, so I slooooowly lowered him until his back paws touched the water. Still nothing. So I kept lowering him until he was completely in the water. I don’t know how long he would’ve stayed, but I decided not to tempt fate any more! I wrapped him in a towel and kept him on my lap so he wouldn’t get cold. He purred himself to sleep like that, the little weirdo!

    • Smartypants June 5, 2017 / 3:40 pm

      That’s adorable (as if we needed more proof that cats march to the beat of their own accordion!) 😀

    • Gigi the cat lady June 5, 2017 / 4:21 pm

      That reminds me of the time when I was a kid and the neighbours hired me to feed the latest litter of barn kitten while they were away. I saw one fall into the cow’s water trough from a bale of hay, so I ran to rescue it and when I put it back on the ground he promptly ran back up on the bale of hay and jumped in the water! The litter nutter loved to swim!

  4. fkaWaldenPond June 5, 2017 / 3:42 pm

    Lake Pupucaca???!!!!!!! 😀 😀 😀 Ok, I am going to use Pupucaca in my nickname proper noun vocab going forward. Thank you!

    • debg June 5, 2017 / 4:14 pm

      There is actually a Lake Titicaca in Peru. When I would mention it in lectures on the Inca civilization, the whole class would crack up. Including me.

      • Gigi the cat lady June 5, 2017 / 4:28 pm

        I thought Lake Titicaca was a very small dirty lake when I was a kid because in Québec French “Ti” means small, like ‘Ti-min” for small cat.
        And “caca” can mean poop but we also use it for telling small kids that something is icky like “don’t touch that it’s caca”.

        • debg June 5, 2017 / 5:33 pm

          Caca actually comes from the Latin and Greek words for poop. You may recently have heard references to a political kakistocracy–rule by the worst. The Greek root is kakos, or worst. I think you can imagine how that root got, ummm, vulgarized. Latin borrowed it as a noun, and then turned it into a verb meaning “to defecate.”

          Some words are the same in every language.

          • tara June 5, 2017 / 5:40 pm

            I had not heard of the kakistocracy – but I LOVE it. hahahaha!
            The things I learn on this sight. Thanks DebG. 🙂

      • fkaWaldenPond June 5, 2017 / 6:24 pm

        Debg, you are cool beans. 🙂 I have decided to use Lake Pupucaca in more milder situations and in well, when it is called for- Lake Shitshit will be dropped. As in, my delayed flight Pupucaca became Flight Shitshit when it was cancelled.

  5. Kar June 5, 2017 / 5:05 pm

    That is a gorgeous kitty

    • debg June 5, 2017 / 5:34 pm

      And it’s going to become an angry gorgeous kitty if it falls in! Cats–they just love to live on the edge.

      • Kar June 6, 2017 / 1:59 am

        I bet if kitty slips we’ll see it walk on water, VERY QUICKLY,

  6. Ricky's Mom June 5, 2017 / 6:06 pm

    So worth reading slowly for the scrolldown.

  7. Scoobie June 5, 2017 / 6:17 pm

    There’s a second a third photo in the series that continues the story – hilarious
    See the imgur link above

    • allein ? June 5, 2017 / 7:01 pm

      lol. thanks for the heads up!

    • debg June 5, 2017 / 10:00 pm

      That’s fantastic. Thanks so much for the clue!

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