This morning I walked into our bedroom to see one of our pair of 6-month old cats walking on the outside window-ledge. This gave me a shock as this ledge is only about 4" wide and sloping, and there is a big drop onto a stone patio. I walked slowly towards the open window and called the cat. It turned round and started walking back towards the opening, but 1/2 way back it lay down and started rolling round on it's back, as cats do.
Then it fell off.
I ran to the window and looked down and realised that it had missed the patio and fallen even further, and was lying on our cellar steps.
I called my wife and we both rushed outside but the cat had vanished; presumably it had run into the cellar as the door had been left open. We searched all over but the cellar is quite large and so full of junk that there are too many places where she could have hidden.
We had our breakfast worrying that it had crawled away to die or that it had broken bones at least. Thirty minutes later the cat walked into the house and sat down on a chair and although it looked as bit stressed at the time it seems ok now.
I stuck a tape measure out of the window and measured 17' (5.2 metres) to where the cat had fallen onto the concrete steps. Lucky or what?
Then it fell off.
I ran to the window and looked down and realised that it had missed the patio and fallen even further, and was lying on our cellar steps.
I called my wife and we both rushed outside but the cat had vanished; presumably it had run into the cellar as the door had been left open. We searched all over but the cellar is quite large and so full of junk that there are too many places where she could have hidden.
We had our breakfast worrying that it had crawled away to die or that it had broken bones at least. Thirty minutes later the cat walked into the house and sat down on a chair and although it looked as bit stressed at the time it seems ok now.
I stuck a tape measure out of the window and measured 17' (5.2 metres) to where the cat had fallen onto the concrete steps. Lucky or what?