Three orange cats on a ladder

Two of them are tabbies. Strange cats. Up and down the ladder they go. The going up is swift, straightforward enough, but they watch what they're doing on the way down. Head first, whiskers stiff, tail steady, rung after rung. It feels like a lesson. Left front paw, right front paw, both back paws at once in a slow downswing of the hind end.