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  • #1

    'Scuse while I go strangle a kitty ...

    Heart attack city ... I wanted to put my bike out on the balcony and Very Curious Kitty was eating, so I thought I was safe ... haha on me.

    Just as I got the rear wheel out the door, guess who scoots out after me?

    This apartment is FOURTEEN FLOORS UP. If he falls from this height, all 9 of his lives will go out in one shot.

    So I'm scrambling to grab any part of him I can get hold of, managing finally to shove him back through the door, all the while thinking that if anything might make him bolt in the wrong direction, my panic would certainly do it ...

    He doesn't know it yet, but Very Curious Kitty is going to become extremely well acquainted with the bathroom whenever I remove or replace my bike on the balcony in the future ...
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    The title had me thinking of this.

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    • #3
      So his love for outside is greater than his love for food? I would've had to take at least 15 minutes to calm down. Fourteen stories??? I don't think we have any buildings that high in the whole state...
      "Is it hot in here to you? It's very warm, isn't it?"--Nero, probably

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      • #4
        Quoth dendawg View Post
        The title had me thinking of this.
        So wrong!

        Lets hang out.
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        • #5
          Cats have been known to survive falls of that high and higher with little or no injury. They really are remarkable creatures!

          ... Of course, not all of them do, so you're quite right to make sure kitty can't get somewhere that he or she can fall that far...
          “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.
          One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world.
          The other, of course, involves orcs." -- John Rogers

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          • #6
            Too bad you can't put something like the Ocelot system around your railing...

            (basically a star-shaped cylinder that rotates, sort of like a car axis. The cat can't get a grip and falls down harmlessly)

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            • #7
              Quoth LadyofArc View Post
              Too bad you can't put something like the Ocelot system around your railing...

              (basically a star-shaped cylinder that rotates, sort of like a car axis. The cat can't get a grip and falls down harmlessly)
              Is this the one you mean? Oscillot That video is pretty good.
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              • #8
                The cats all look a bit sheepish in that video Like "Oh, I knew that was gonna happen ..."

                If I had a yard I'd definitely go for it. Problem is, of course, railing's on balconies aren't generally 7-10 feet high ... I wouldn't be surprised to see my cat go up and over it.
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                • #9
                  Our old cat McGriff would routinely scale the 20-foot stockade fence on our property line...no clue how he did it. He never actually went over the other side (parking lot); typically he'd balance on one of the uprights (6" diameter!) and terrify squirrels/birds/us until he got bored enough to come back in.

                  Despite all efforts of mom and I, my stepfather was convinced that he should be allowed to roam...just because Gozer the Demon Cat would take a coyote/hawk down with her doesn't mean he could.
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