Originally Posted by
Rock Monkey
They are fearless. "Go for it!" is their motto. I quickly learned that there is pretty much no place in the room they won't try to get to and eventually they will be able to get there. She has leapt off my shoulder onto the top of the door as I was beginning to pass through it. Fortunately, I stopped closing the door.
First time she hit the ground as a little thing, I was like "Oh Crap." She got up and tried the 18" leap again so I put a pad down because I realized that she wasn't going to stop trying.
Slowly over time more and more objects have stowed away somewhere. There hasn't been a container or bottle that she hasn't tried to get into. Child proof cap, no problem.
They will take negative attention if they can't get positive attention. They have a list of all of the things that they aren't supposed to do. They are very observant and know what sounds correspond to what.
They can be noisy rambunctious, but they also possess a stealth mode and are perfectly capable of moving about in the dark. They will climb into the fridge, they know where the food is, be sure to stack things in a sturdy way.
If an object that they landed on starts falling, they accelerate and keep leaping until things stop falling down.
I have learned to walk slow so as not to be a moving target. Otherwise, you might get a squirrel in the face.