Once upon a time, there was a tiny cat named, Boo! She only weighed four pounds but she had a BIG personality. Boo! and her brother, Dash, got into a lot of mischief.
One night, Boo! was bored, so she decided to investigate the shelves around the big box her humans always sat and stared at. The box had pictures that moved but nothing ever came out of the box. She didn't understand why they stared at it. But they did - a lot.
Boo! easily jumped up to the middle shelf, where she found something that looked like her bunny, Roxy. It just sat there, though. Boo! sometimes got confused when her human Mom put stuff out that she wasn't supposed to touch. And if it fell off the shelf and made a great crash, Boo! went running because it seemed to make Mom grumbly.
From the shelf, it was a short hop to the top of the big box. It was fun pretending she was on a big adventure, walking across the slippery, narrow box. When she got across it, it was another quick hop to the highest shelf in the whole house. Up there, she could see forever. And there was another big box which was perfect to hide behind. Boo! felt like she was on top of the world.
Mom and Dad seemed kind of worried, though. She heard it in Mom's voice when she asked Dad how high it was and did he think Boo! would try to jump down from there. Dad got up and got the thing they climb on when Boo! gets up high and they get scared. It makes them taller. But Dad wasn't tall enough to reach Boo! She thought it was funny.
Then she heard Mom say she was going to do something that would get her down and Dad needed to be ready to catch her. Boo! wondered what they were up to. As she peeked around the big box they call "speakers," she could see Mom go to another big box in the kitchen. She didn't know what it was called but it has food in it and that's where the ice cubes, she and Dash like, come from. They know when the ice is coming out because it makes a big, scary, crunchy sound.
Sure enough, Mom was getting ice for them! Boo! took a short cut and went across the black box again, then onto a shelf and the new thing around the place where there is sometimes fire. It was no big deal.
Boo! heard Dad say it wasn't the first time Boo! had done that. Mom and Dad didn't know it, but she's been doing this while they sleep. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy!
Boo! got some ice, and played awhile, but then Mom picked her up and gave her lots of kisses and told her it was time for bed. She heard Mom say, "I would like to watch my show without worrying you're going to kill yourself, Baby Cat. See you in the morning."
Dash was already in there, waiting for her. The two of them made plans for their next big adventure. It was gonna be a good one....
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