Jumping off a three storey house

She probably does climb a tree up to the roof, walk along a branch then jump onto the roof. Mine do, at any rate.

nanna8

Thanks for your replies. I am not sure how she gets up there. It is from the garden outside and we have quite a few big trees so I am guessing she climbs up one of them and launches herself across. Quit a long launch though. We have an outdoor decking on the third floor and she gets up to that sometimes, I just can’t imagine quite how. She is a small cat, never got very big, so maybe her ancestors lived up trees? The resident possum is bigger than her and she watches him through the window. She is not allowed out after dark because it is against the law here.

Thanks. It is just that it was reported that many people with indoor cats allow them to access roof by roof windows.

Just exploded towards it at waist height all fluffed up! It fled.

My terrier cornered a cat with a litter of kittens, the cat stood her ground and made a real mess of the dogs face
Terrier now leaves cats strictly alone

Thanks for your replies. I am not sure how she gets up there. It is from the garden outside and we have quite a few big trees so I am guessing she climbs up one of them and launches herself across. Quit a long launch though. We have an outdoor decking on the third floor and she gets up to that sometimes, I just can’t imagine quite how. She is a small cat, never got very big, so maybe her ancestors lived up trees? The resident possum is bigger than her and she watches him through the window. She is not allowed out after dark because it is against the law here.

Probably from a tree Fleurpepper

How do they get on the roof? From roof windows? Can't you close the doors upstairs so they can't get out on to the roof? Are they supposed to be indoor cats only?

Is she climbing up from the ground or climbing out from upstairs windows?

My DD has a cat who has climbed on the roof from the windows - a bit problematic since she moved to a 7th floor apartment. She has netted some windows, which keeps wasps and mozzies out as well

We once had a female Norwegian forest cat. A lovely creature and a great climber. She used to spiral her way up the conifer at our front door and on to the garage roof. She'd have a lovely day crouched up there watching the world go by. In the evening she'd just jump straight down on to the concrete driveway. Looked like she dislocated her shoulder joints. She just shook out each paw and carried on in to the house. A very brave girl, she once saw off a doberman which came in to our garden. Just exploded towards it at waist height all fluffed up! It fled.
Sadly, she went out one night and never came back. So painful just not knowing what happened to her

Cats have survived unhurt from falling from a great height than you are talking about.

Added to that a cat who jumps and does it more than once has somehow been able to judge the distance and landed safely.

I know this is not terribly reassuring, as she may misjudge her distance at some time or other and come to harm.

The fact that she chose a lower part of the roof to jump from today, shows that she herself felt the height was a bit scary.

All you can and should do, is to make sure there are no unseen obstacles where she lands that could harm her, stones, gardening tools etc. hidden in grass or bushes.

My year-old Tigger scares me by crossing a busy road to play with the cat who lives on the opposite side and steal his left-overs, even although Tigger gets enough food at home. Nothing I do will stop him, and not even his sister thumping him when she catches him coming in from the road, which she doesn't dare cross, deters him.

We have a basic choice: either we force the cats to live an unnatural life indoors, or we reconcile ourselves to the horrible thought that they might be run over, hurt themselves seriously jumping or falling from a roof or a tree or be caught and savaged by a dog. Happily, they may instead live to a ripe old and healthy age.

I think to stop her would be hard she should be free to live her life as she wants so as hard as it is for you to want to save her all the time I think she needs her freedom to choose Cats are canny creatures
Shes 2 so been doing this a while I should imagine and still alive I d leave her to it cats are beautifully free spirits and not so easily changed as dogs she probably threw herself off the top bit when she knew you were there and watching
I d ignore it