My kitten just jumped out of my 1st floor window...
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So my 3 month old kittie Wilbur (see the pic below) took a running jump and leapt out of the 1st floor bedroom window last night... I ran into the room to see his brother hanging out the winder meowing at him while he lay in a stupor outside.
I stuck some jeans on and ran outside - I found him in a complete daze with a little blood on his lip. Of course as a non-vet I worried he'd broken a leg or something so carefully carried him inside. Opened his mouth and beyond a loose kitten tooth, his mouth was fine, he was naturally reluctant to put much weight on two of his paws but was walking around - the worry was he'd had a hard head knock and potentially dammaged himself internally as he wasn't making a sound (which is not like him - he's always talking and purring) and just looking around the room at nothing in particular...
Rushed him down to the out of hours emergency clinic and the vet jested - another high riser - and said it's fairly common...
vet checked him over and was amazed he didn't break his jaw or any ribs, apparantly the typical injuries he would recieve through this type of activity. the only injuries he recieved was a bruised elbow, a loose tooth and a sore knee... amazing for a 1.2kg 3 month old cat jumping out fo the first floor of a victorian terrace... amazing. I will be closing all windows big enough to allow a kittie through at full peg.
anyone else experienced this level of stupidity?
I stuck some jeans on and ran outside - I found him in a complete daze with a little blood on his lip. Of course as a non-vet I worried he'd broken a leg or something so carefully carried him inside. Opened his mouth and beyond a loose kitten tooth, his mouth was fine, he was naturally reluctant to put much weight on two of his paws but was walking around - the worry was he'd had a hard head knock and potentially dammaged himself internally as he wasn't making a sound (which is not like him - he's always talking and purring) and just looking around the room at nothing in particular...
Rushed him down to the out of hours emergency clinic and the vet jested - another high riser - and said it's fairly common...
vet checked him over and was amazed he didn't break his jaw or any ribs, apparantly the typical injuries he would recieve through this type of activity. the only injuries he recieved was a bruised elbow, a loose tooth and a sore knee... amazing for a 1.2kg 3 month old cat jumping out fo the first floor of a victorian terrace... amazing. I will be closing all windows big enough to allow a kittie through at full peg.
anyone else experienced this level of stupidity?
Edited by kieranjholland on Thursday 18th August 18:04
Mine did the same at about 8 months old.
Next thing (it's a bengal so van be VERY loud) I know its making an ungodly noise (its not at outdoor cat) that was so unusual that a crowd of people had gathered on the pavement as it was sitting in the corner. Luckily at that moment my gf came cycling back and took her in. Hasn't done it since. But the confidence they show on the window sills still makes me think it won't be the lsat time it happens.
Next thing (it's a bengal so van be VERY loud) I know its making an ungodly noise (its not at outdoor cat) that was so unusual that a crowd of people had gathered on the pavement as it was sitting in the corner. Luckily at that moment my gf came cycling back and took her in. Hasn't done it since. But the confidence they show on the window sills still makes me think it won't be the lsat time it happens.
My OH is a vet nurse, and we took on a 5 month old kitten that got handed in as lost. We decided to keep him in for around 6 weeks before we let him out, seeing as he had run away from his previous home. About a week before we are planning on letting him out we're sitting watching tele at about 8.30pm. Nelson (the car) hasn't been with us for a few hours which is unusual, as he normal sits with me or the OH. The OH says we should go get him, I'm comfy so tell her to go look. 5 minutes later she can't find him upstairs so I check the kitchen. No where to be seen.
SO I wander upstairs and searh around, under beds, in suitcases.. everywhere. Really no idea where he's gone. Hannah says "is he outside, did you let him out" and goes to look outside. I respond by telling her I haven't opened the door and he's been in since I got back. She opens the door to find Nelson sat on our doorstep. He looks at her, meows and saunters in with a "What?" look on his face. The only way he could have got out was to jump out of the seconds storey window. Stupid Cat. A week later he gets himself stuck 30+ foot up a tree.
SO I wander upstairs and searh around, under beds, in suitcases.. everywhere. Really no idea where he's gone. Hannah says "is he outside, did you let him out" and goes to look outside. I respond by telling her I haven't opened the door and he's been in since I got back. She opens the door to find Nelson sat on our doorstep. He looks at her, meows and saunters in with a "What?" look on his face. The only way he could have got out was to jump out of the seconds storey window. Stupid Cat. A week later he gets himself stuck 30+ foot up a tree.
kieranjholland said:
anyone else experienced this level of stupidity?
I have 2 cats, one is rescue cat who could be anywhere from 4-8yo, is very well behaved (apart from the tendancy to fight foxes and terriers) and doesn't give me any major worries. The other one (Horatio), also kind of rescued, he came home from a pub with the ex for the price of a pint of stella.
He is beautiful, long haired, looks black unless in bright sunlight when he has aurbun flecks in his hair and he is the most incredibly stupid cat!
We got him during the snowy bit of Feb 2010, so when the snow melted he was to scared to go outside for a few weeks.
At 6 months he brought home his first trophy, a stunned magpie who was bigger than him, and then it chased him round the house until i could catch it.
He constantly tries to playfight with FTC (Freya the cat), she is a proper Greebo and even the foxes and local dogs avoid her now, yet he is always surprised when she whacks him.
He walks to heel when i'm out in the fields.
He has tried and failed on more than one occasion to take down a fully grown sheep.
I've seem him sizing up the horses, i'm waiting for him to try to have one of them.
I have seen him stalking a magpie whilst trying to carry the remains of a squirrel.
He is often spotted in winter at the top of the oak tree in the field, and has been witnessed to fall most of the way down twice.
If i am on the phone he takes it as an invite to attack my free hand.
He tried to get into my Imprezas exhaust when he was smaller.
I have had to move the garden furniture after he lept into my car window from the table when i was trying to park.
I drove to the local supermarket, shopped, and when i went to open the boot he was asleep in there. I still don't know how he managed that one but i have a feeling he'd been there for at least 14hours.
He jumped into my laundry bin and knocked the lid shut, when i found him he was stuck in the arm of one of my work shirts.
I left the ironing board resting against the wall in the living room when he was about 14weeks, he got stuck halfway up it because he could retract his claws fully, agian i'm not sure how long he was there but he was asleep hanging there when i got home.
The general rule i have discovered with him is that if it is stupid, dangerous or both he will attempt it gladly.
ETA he does getting himself stuck and then sleeping until he's rescued very well, which means you cant find him because he makes no bloody noise.
Edited by omgus on Thursday 18th August 18:28
OMGUS I have tears in my eyes reading that!!
OP I've never had a cat leap out an upstairs window and now we live in a bungalow (so often get one "stuck" on the roof, but I've eventually worked out if I leave her she makes her own way down the arbour) BUT I am very glad that yours is well after his excursion....
OP I've never had a cat leap out an upstairs window and now we live in a bungalow (so often get one "stuck" on the roof, but I've eventually worked out if I leave her she makes her own way down the arbour) BUT I am very glad that yours is well after his excursion....
We had a lovely ginger tom (neutered) (George) who was abandoned by his owners who emigrated. At the time we has a seal point Siamese (Vishnu)who made real friends with George when George came visiting. We adopted George.
From the start George always walked around the tops of fences along the neighbouring properties. He never walked on the gardens.
He loved climbings and we frequently got calls from neighbours who were worried about him climbing up telegraph poles and sitting at the top. As I explained to the callers, George was a real climber and unlike most cats, would turn around when ready AND CLIMB DOWN BACKWARDS.
We moved several times and every time George would find the biggest property around climb up to the top of the Chimneys and settle down for a sleep. Then down he would come when ready, safely, every time. He was a very clever cat.
We still got dozens of calls about him as we moved. He just NEVER got stuck.
Finally George decided to expand his activities and as I sat in my lounge an orange flash dropped by.
It was George jumping out of the window. His latest trick. About 2 years old at that time. Perfect timing never even broke step just ran off happily.
And he continued to do this for ten years till we moved to a bungalow. Never hurt himself, never got stuck, he just loved it.
Interestingly our Siamese cat had an equally unusual habit.
We had door handles with long arms and he found that he could flick the door handle by holding on with two paws and swing against the door. And the door would swing open. He was a very big heavy cat.
So from about 2 he let himself in and out when he felt like it.
Perhaps even more surprisingly George found that if he mewed outside the back door Vishnu would come up and swing on the door to open it for George.
Which he did time after time after time for ten years. Then Vishnu died and George died a year later.
One question: who was the brighter cat?
The one calling his friend to open the door or the one opening the door?
I could never decide.
But they were lovely animals very child friendly.
Both walked to the Primary school (physically behind out House) at lunchtime every day once they had worked out where the kids had gone, and played with our three kids who went to the school.
Five days a week never on a Saturday or Sunday.
All the children at the school loved our cats.
But they stopped going as our kids went to new schools further away.
Happy Times!!
From the start George always walked around the tops of fences along the neighbouring properties. He never walked on the gardens.
He loved climbings and we frequently got calls from neighbours who were worried about him climbing up telegraph poles and sitting at the top. As I explained to the callers, George was a real climber and unlike most cats, would turn around when ready AND CLIMB DOWN BACKWARDS.
We moved several times and every time George would find the biggest property around climb up to the top of the Chimneys and settle down for a sleep. Then down he would come when ready, safely, every time. He was a very clever cat.
We still got dozens of calls about him as we moved. He just NEVER got stuck.
Finally George decided to expand his activities and as I sat in my lounge an orange flash dropped by.
It was George jumping out of the window. His latest trick. About 2 years old at that time. Perfect timing never even broke step just ran off happily.
And he continued to do this for ten years till we moved to a bungalow. Never hurt himself, never got stuck, he just loved it.
Interestingly our Siamese cat had an equally unusual habit.
We had door handles with long arms and he found that he could flick the door handle by holding on with two paws and swing against the door. And the door would swing open. He was a very big heavy cat.
So from about 2 he let himself in and out when he felt like it.
Perhaps even more surprisingly George found that if he mewed outside the back door Vishnu would come up and swing on the door to open it for George.
Which he did time after time after time for ten years. Then Vishnu died and George died a year later.
One question: who was the brighter cat?
The one calling his friend to open the door or the one opening the door?
I could never decide.
But they were lovely animals very child friendly.
Both walked to the Primary school (physically behind out House) at lunchtime every day once they had worked out where the kids had gone, and played with our three kids who went to the school.
Five days a week never on a Saturday or Sunday.
All the children at the school loved our cats.
But they stopped going as our kids went to new schools further away.
Happy Times!!
My kitty ended up falling out my 1st floor window last year when she was 3 years old.
I Just heard a little squeel and small thud on the stones below, she must have slipped.
I ran down expecting the worst but she was wondering about fine.
I think cats automatically shape their body when falling so that they are always upright for landing.
This may be a lot of rubbish but I'm sure I read it somewhere.
I Just heard a little squeel and small thud on the stones below, she must have slipped.
I ran down expecting the worst but she was wondering about fine.
I think cats automatically shape their body when falling so that they are always upright for landing.
This may be a lot of rubbish but I'm sure I read it somewhere.
ali_kat said:
Pleased to hear Wilbur is okay after his adventure
Bast will jump out of the bedroom window if she sees a rabbit in the garden, this means I have to sleep with the windows closed
He's on my lap right now, not happy I'm typing here and not playing with him - it's like nothing happened!!Bast will jump out of the bedroom window if she sees a rabbit in the garden, this means I have to sleep with the windows closed
My OH isn't going to get over it that quickly though and we're doing exactly the same, all windows bar the tiny pointless ones are closed...
okgo said:
Mine did the same at about 8 months old.
Next thing (it's a bengal so van be VERY loud) I know its making an ungodly noise (its not at outdoor cat) that was so unusual that a crowd of people had gathered on the pavement as it was sitting in the corner. Luckily at that moment my gf came cycling back and took her in. Hasn't done it since. But the confidence they show on the window sills still makes me think it won't be the lsat time it happens.
Some lovely tales of exploits on this thread, makes me remember our cat who used to love waltzing around peoples rooftops oblivious to mere humans distress.Next thing (it's a bengal so van be VERY loud) I know its making an ungodly noise (its not at outdoor cat) that was so unusual that a crowd of people had gathered on the pavement as it was sitting in the corner. Luckily at that moment my gf came cycling back and took her in. Hasn't done it since. But the confidence they show on the window sills still makes me think it won't be the lsat time it happens.
However, in this case can you not fit some mosquito type screen to whichever window(s) are vulnerable to feline escape? Next time you (or 'it') may not be so lucky, not just possible injuries (falling/running into road), getting lost etc but a pedigree Bengal is worth a few quid to the opportunist.
kieranjholland said:
This was the best post I've seen in a little while - you've got some funny cats there omgus!
We had Siamese when I was growing up - nothing was off bounds for them. They are great cats. One regularly came home with seagulls, hares and other medium sized creatures, many still alive. Mum got cross when it appeared with a collection of baby owls (obviously brought one at a time from somewhere). One cat would sit under the car parked on the street and attack all the dogs who were walked past. Dog owners used to cross the road to avoid our house :-) This cat also used to be a devil to get in at night, so we used to let the dog out telling him "puss cat" and he'd run off up the housing estate (quiet, 11pm or later) looking for the cat. The cat would then chase the dog home and into the kitchen. Slam door - only time we ever outfoxed that cat! It also liked to roll in the road even when cars were coming and wouldn't move - never got run over though, lucky it was a small estate. Same cat would also come for a walk with the dog in the local fields, quite a long way from home.66comanche said:
Some lovely tales of exploits on this thread, makes me remember our cat who used to love waltzing around peoples rooftops oblivious to mere humans distress.
However, in this case can you not fit some mosquito type screen to whichever window(s) are vulnerable to feline escape? Next time you (or 'it') may not be so lucky, not just possible injuries (falling/running into road), getting lost etc but a pedigree Bengal is worth a few quid to the opportunist.
I don't open the lower half of our sash windows now to avoid that, but they still like going out onto the roof of the below extension, which is fine.However, in this case can you not fit some mosquito type screen to whichever window(s) are vulnerable to feline escape? Next time you (or 'it') may not be so lucky, not just possible injuries (falling/running into road), getting lost etc but a pedigree Bengal is worth a few quid to the opportunist.
kieranjholland said:
gentlemangreen said:
omgus said:
I've seem him sizing up the horses, i'm waiting for him to try to have one of them.
Just superb!gentlemangreen said:
kieranjholland said:
gentlemangreen said:
omgus said:
I've seem him sizing up the horses, i'm waiting for him to try to have one of them.
Just superb!
Marf said:
Is it a case of "these horses are small, those horses are faaar away" ??
I just showed him that, he yawned and then licked the area where he used to have testicles. What makes his hunting shenanigans worse is i have two degus and a guinea pig that he just ignores now. He used to sleep on top of the degu cage, but then they got big enough to climb properly and started nibbling his feet if he was up there, he now keeps well away from them. Also if you put the degus in their exercise ball they chase the cats, they have figured out that they are invincible in there whereas the cats can be rammed at quite high speed.
It is sadly not an uncommon site to see a cat pushing a rodent exercise ball one way down the hall and then a few seconds later to see the cat fleeing from the same ball back where they came from.
I love my pets, they do entertain me constantly.
ETA, so you can see what i mean, Horatio beautiful but stupid, and black in anything other than direct sunlight.
The iron had been off for about 2 minutes when i found him like this.
FTC the sleeping death machine. Ears are slightly tattier now, when this was taken she had only the one tear in it.
When she fist arrived and was still pretending to be cute to win my affection.
And both cats are often chased around by Dylan (pictured) and his brother Diego. :facepalm:
Edited by omgus on Friday 19th August 17:37
Excellent Thread. Some great tales there.
When we first moved to this house we would go for walks and find two of my cats had followed us.
Another time we went for a walk and was followed by the youngest cat (Tinker) for up to over a mile from home. She took the long way of going through every bodies gardens.
Recently the big Dumb cat (Felix) climbed out of the sash window at the front of the house. jumped onto the roof of the bay window below, and then meowed. A lot, as there was no clear way for him to get down.
All three have brought back various animals over the years, including larger birds and one Rabbit who was bigger than the cat who brought it back. Somehow getting the rabbit over the fence!
When we first moved to this house we would go for walks and find two of my cats had followed us.
Another time we went for a walk and was followed by the youngest cat (Tinker) for up to over a mile from home. She took the long way of going through every bodies gardens.
Recently the big Dumb cat (Felix) climbed out of the sash window at the front of the house. jumped onto the roof of the bay window below, and then meowed. A lot, as there was no clear way for him to get down.
All three have brought back various animals over the years, including larger birds and one Rabbit who was bigger than the cat who brought it back. Somehow getting the rabbit over the fence!
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