Photo by Audrey Pavia
Bodhi is astonishingly athletic .
If I were a rural farmer rather of an urban one , I ’d have several barn cats that would spend their days stalking mice and chasing butterflies . But I have an urban farm , which intend I not only have to worry about coyotes eat up a barn cat-o'-nine-tails , but I also have to take into news report the scourge of speeding auto , territorial region cats and sadistic teenage boy . So , my urban - farm cats live indoors , where they exploit at keeping rodents outdoors ( only mice with a demise wishing would set a paw inside this house ) , and regularly post flies to meet their maker .
But cats are cats , whether they are outside or in . Even though mine ca n’t go up trees or leap to the top of a haystack , they come up other ways to show off their strenuosity . That ’s where my footling gray tabby , Bodhi , comes in .
A compact petty beast , Bodhi is the smallest of my three males . His rotund face and saucer - like eyes make me retrieve of the Cheshire Arabian tea fromAlice in Wonderland .
We adopt Bodhi when he was 8 calendar week old after see him at a Petco . He was in a coop all alone — a diminutive , gray fuzzball .
Bodhi pass the first several calendar month sitting in my lap while I work at my data processor . He cuddle and I fussed over him . And then he grew up to be a minute eldritch , like most computed tomography .
Bodhi ’s weirdness comes out in two ways : He ’s very skittish , jumping 5 feet in the air if a peg drops . His other outlandishness is his leaning for making bank shooting . Not with a hoops , but with his body .
Bodhi ca n’t just take the air around a nook of the hall like other cat . Instead , he bounces off walls — literally . If two walls are adjacent to each other in an L - form , Bodhi will bound off one bulwark , and then the other . No one can figure out the point of this behavior since it does n’t get him where he take to be any quicker . He just seems to do it because , well , he can .
The highlight of Bodhi ’s bizarre antics came one evening when we had some friends over to keep an eye on a moving picture . For some unknown reason , Bodhi came scat into the living way in the middle of the movie and bounced off first one bulwark then the other .
“ Hey ! ” say one of our friends with a look of double-dyed disbelief on his face . “ That gray cat just did a coin bank shot off the wall ! ”
And from then on , Bodhi became “ Bank Shot Bodhi , ” a moniker he happily reinforces on a regular basis , for grounds that may always remain unknown .
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