Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Learning Limits

Kermit is learning the extent of his Squirrel Superpowers. To wit: he has found out that he Can't Jump Onto Walls.

After D&D Monday night, he was scampering around on my person as I prepared his supper and said goodbye to folks. There was a lot going on, lots to sniff, and the little guy got a bit overexcited. He saw a patch of wall and made a full-body flying leap (literally), which turned into a full-body belly flop against the wall. Slide down the wall about 5 feet, to land underneath our bookshelf. We eventually coaxed him out with an almond.

I'm getting the impression that the only way to person-to-person train this guy is to let him try out all the furniture and find out for himself why it's not Good for Squirrels. Sooner or later he will have thrown himself against most everything else and find that humans are simply preferable: he can stick to them.

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