Oh Zeus!

So I'm not sure if you remember our humongous cat lion, Zeus who calls our new house his home now. He is a very sweet cat, but when he first moved to the new house, we weren't here yet. He had to tough it out inside for the first week with no one here in a strange new place- not to mention that he is a mostly outside cat! It was not fun for him, even though i visited daily. So, we were painting over here one night and we left the skylights open in the upstairs loft room.

Zeus got it into his little head (that I think is a little disproportionate to his body) that he needed to get out and fast! So, he climbed out of the skylight on to our super steep roof. Well, that was all he wrote. He hadn't thought past the flight. He's not a great climber in the first place and he couldn't get down.

We tried and tried to coax him back into the skylight but he was just too scared. So, we went back to my parents' house for the night feeling pretty bad for him just meowing away up there.

The next morning, knowing Zeus was probably just hanging out up there scared, we took a ladder over to attempt the climb up to get him.

I was going to get him, but Dan in his macho manliness decided he would do it.

What a sight! He crawled up the super steep roof (with our new neighbors watching), got Zeus (who was still meowing) and scooted down!

I was hysterically laughing and Zeus was terrified, but we got him and I am pretty sure he is never attempting that again.

Oh Zeus, we'll keep you around a little while longer....