The Cheepy Maneuver - historic footage

This is being inserted somewhat out of order, it was shot Sept 16 2019 when Cheepy was a young adult. He kept visiting until March 2020 when the parents of the Fluffbutts started keeping him more effectively away.

Our house is kind of oddly arranged, but has a nice view. It has been in a state of flux for well over a year, with all manner of things in the process of being moved from one place to another, so this vid may well be censored by Sue rather than allowing people to see how messy it was then; (it's similarly messy now but a DIFFERENT mess.)

But the point is that the upstairs is designed with big windows all around, and the first few times a shama gets into the upstairs, it's hard for them to figure out how to get out.

So that's where the "Cheepy Maneuver" comes in. He used this multiple times, as his go-to disorientation strategy: if he ever couldn't figure out how to get out of the house, he would just find Sue and land on her head, and she'd walk him to the nearest port of debarkation. This really did happen multiple times until he could get back to the kitchen door from any place in the house. He didn't land on her head any other time, nor have any of the other shamas come up with a similar strategy. It worked for him every time. Why he was so sure it would, we may never know.