Ada's New Trick

Ada is obsessed with water. She knows that water is in the shower and it drives her crazy that shower doors are closed whenever she is in the room. She mews and cries, pacing the bathroom floor, sniffing at the doors...looking at me...and then sniffing again. I don't need the little rat tromping around in the bathtub. It's off limits. Out of bounds. Whatever.

So, one morning an idea hatched in her little brain. She paced the bathroom as usual, but this time she had an intensity about her. Then, suddenly, in a flash of gray and white she pushed one foot off a drawer handle and leapt to the top of the shower sliding doors, landing like a little ballerina. It was so amazing, I just had to take a picture...before I escorted her to the floor.

She's done it several times since. Each time with grace. But, I have to say, I never let her get much further than that. She still hasn't met her goal and the tub is still off limits.

(By the way, the bathroom is under construction...pardon the ugly walls)