anytime in the city a cat will catch my eye. Like the ambling feline near Roosevelt St in Chicago, or the calm stress free calico with her Gypsy owner near the Paris Opera house
Large ginger and white fluffy thing, just like the one we’d left at home, on the Paris Metro sharing a large shopping bag with folders and papers. It remained very calm whilst the young female owner shuffled through said folders and papers.
Neighbour’s cat sitting atop a 15’ pole that had just been installed by the council as the first part of a fence to be. He had to be rescued. Half an hour later our cat, who had been watching from the window. She, of course, also had to be rescued. To this day I believe she was jealous of the attention the first cat got.
Intending to jump on top of the compost bin, a rather silly cat found her ridiculous self in the bin on top of the compost, as I had just removed the lid. She had the most absurd expression of bewilderment and I turned away before I burst out laughing in her face. But, too late, she got to see me doubled over and gasping for breath once she had extricated herself.
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Saw a halfbreed “Siamese” cat in a Buddhist temple … yeah. In Thailand.
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On top of my old phototypesetting equipment, where it was always warm. Via the keyboard, hence turning the keyboard OFF, thereby destroying the phototypeset galley-in-progress, because the light would FLARE and create a huge black spot. I eventually had to tape a 1" clear plastic box over the on-off switch. Never used it again … used the PLUG to turn the phototypesetter on & off thereafter. Yes, this was inconvenient & bad for the equipment.
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Stuck UNDER the LP shelves, which had caused the subfloor to buckle. I had to call a vet (“EMERGENCY!”) to anesthetize the cat, in order to pull it out. The landlord was not amused at the condition of the floor
On the roof. My cat enjoys climbing out 2nd story windows, then latching onto overhanging tree branches and climbing down. Of course, she could just use the front door, but where’s the fun in that?
One dumb kitten I had for a while.
Couldn’t find him and then I noticed the smell of burning fur. I had a lamp shaped like and urn and he was on the top of the urn wrapped around the light bulb.
Second time he went missing he had somehow gotten into the spare bedroom and was under the bed stuck to the bottom of the box spring. He had scratched a bunch of threads lose and got tangled in them and was attached to the box spring. The threads were so tight around him one of his paws was cold.
The first time I came across some feral cats they were in the trees above our heads on the trail. To see a bunch of kittens barely hanging on to the branches while hissing at us as we rode under them was rather unnerving.
This happened once to one of our cats:eek:
Clinging half-way up a screen door at (my) eye-level. Scared the wits out of me when I opened the main door to go out.
Here’s my current kitten hidingfrom me. 
At the Tannhäuser Gate
Reminded me of a friend whose cat would spend her days hanging out at the local laundromat. She was so popular with the patrons that after she died, my friend put an obituary in the local weekly paper to let them all know she’d passed on.
Yes, a feral had kitten in our back yard, so we were catching the kittens ans rescuing them. One day my SO went out to pick some apricots and found a kitten in the tree, brought it back with “Well, would a nice ripe kitten do instead of a apricot?”
(We gentled them and then sent them to 13th Street Cat Rescue, where they all got great homes. They are an amazing org.)
About two hours ago, sprawled across the checkout counter at the local True Value hardware store. Sound asleep, and not moving for anybody. People would just stack their stuff around the cat as they checked out.
Looks like he’s the boss there.
Back of a police car.
We had a cat who refused to be an indoor cat. One time he got out and disappeared for abut a day. Got a call at 10:00 pm the next night from the back about a mile away. He had set off a perimeter alarm at the bank and had been caught by the officer responding to the alarm. I had to drive over and get him. When I got there the officers response was that the cat was getting pretty upset, so they stuck him in the back seat of the cruiser. I found him in the foot well pissed as hell at having been caught.
Is this your cat?
:Di have you know there are 3 here.
In all my years – nay, decades – here, I believe I can count the number of times I’ve seen a Siamese cat on one hand. I’ve been assured they are here, it’s just they’re expensive, so their owners keep them indoors. Well, maybe. But it seems odd not to have seen more than I have, indoors or out.
Atop a 9-foot-tall brick wall. I can only assume they get up there by using the property owner’s BBQ grill as a stepping stone.
I forgot this one: My former feral got himself shut in the factory unit across the road at the start of the Easter Bank Holiday. I emailed the boss and he came down the next morning and fetched him out. A fortnight later he was caught raiding their bin 
You can take the cat out of the streets…