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[FuzzyFace]

My big boy, Maine Coon cat BooBoo, isn't very bright and I love him almost beyond description but his ... mental slowness ... is starting to be a problem.

Before everyone chimes in, I DO have a vet appt. for him.

We always have to move our furniture around at Christmas time to put our tree where it usually goes. Long story short: Boo can't figure out how to get onto his ceiling high condo without the easy chair in place for him to jump from. He CAN and does know how to climb it but he prefers to try to jump even if he's risking life and limb.

Well, you've probably guessed it by now--he's tried to get up OR down and fallen to the floor. He's no little lightweight kitty, he's about 15 lbs. and most of that is in his lower half so he hits the floor fairly hard. I'm hoping some of that extra padding helps absorb some of the shock of the fall.

Today he's done this TWICE and I've tried to intervene and either help him up or down but a couple of times I couldn't move fast enough. The 2nd time happened a little while ago and the poor thing CRIED--well, whimpered, really. (Maine Coons have very sweet, high-pitched voices and it can be funny to hear these high-pitched squeaks coming out of such big, burly cats.) Then he did the crouching-down running thing that's both funny and pathetic.

I'm going to take him in for an overall checkup and see if there's something we can do to allieviate the situation. And NEXT Christmas the tree will go somewhere else so that we don't have to move furniture and cause him so much physical and emotional distreee.

Please send hugs, good thoughts, etc. for Boo.