kitten athleticism

I don’t know enough about cat development to know if maybe there’s typically some sort of Week 8 Explosion, but Tamanya seems to be gaining new skills every day now.

What astonishes me most is her sheer athleticism. Today for the first time she’s jumping easily between the two rather distant beds in the guest room. She stalks me and attacks my hands from out of nowhere with long-distance leaps, so in a sense she’s actually a bit scary to have too close by at any given moment– always in striking distance if you can see her.

And she runs like the wind already. The days of her cute but awkward rabbit-hops down the hallway are long gone. She’s approaching something like complete physical control of herself now.