The late lamented Feather could reach the top of the refrigerator
without any apparent effort. The first time he did this, although it
became a habit, was the time I answered the door and my friend Bruce
was standing there with his Airedale terrorist, Heather. In the
fullness of time Feather became friends with the d*g but he never
stopped jumping to the top of the fridge once he knew that he could.

WooToo, however, can only get onto my admittedly high bed by jumping
first to her chair, which must be placed near the bed.

Will in New Haven

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Do you hear little Yeeeeeeee-haaaas coming out of her?

Theresa
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Make Levees, Not War

It just goes to show, catproof is an oxymoron. ;o)

I can one-up you on that.  when Smokey was a youth, we used to let her out
on our enclosed front porch (we don't anymore, as that's where I keep my
gardening implements, and those can be dangerous for a kitty), and one time
a bird somehow got in there.  The previous owners of the house had some
nails sticking out of the wood above the windows, I'm assuming for hanging
plants on.... the bird perched on one of these nails.  I stand at just a
skoonch over 5' 5" in my bare feet, closer to 5' 6" in shoes - and this nail
is at least 3 inches over my head.  Smokey *really* wanted that bird - she
sat below it and stared for a good 5 minutes, before finally doing a
wiggle-but and leaping *straight up* and nabbing the bird in her mouth as it
tried to fly off the nail & escape!

Bird was squawking and chirping, so she didn't have a death grip on it, we
dunked Smokey's head under the tub faucet to try & get her to let go of the
bird.

No way.

This was *her* bird. Nobody was going to take it away from her.

We put her on the enclosed back porch, and DH was going out the back door
for something (this was over 10 years ago, so I don't remember for what he
was going), and at the exact moment he had the inner and outer doors to the
outside opened as he went through them, Smokey *let go of the bird*
(presumably to play with her prey, as cats do), and the bird seemed to sense
it's change, flew straight out the doors, and it was all DH could do the
close the doors before Smokey, in hot pursuit of *her* bird, followed it
into the out!

Our cats love to get above the upper cabinets, specifically, Bam-Bam,
Barney, Ping & Ernie.  Sometimes they play chase back & forth up there, I'm
worried about the cabinets crashing down off the walls!

She's young, still.  I would put all breakables away until you see that she
no longer has an interest in going up high - which might take a few years

much trouble & work to get up there!

Heh.  Shamrock is like this. I can't cat-proof any high surfaces
from him.  He only needs an inch of clear space spaced out in at
least 3 spots because he can jump to any surface, land on three
feet and find room for the other one. I don't know how he does it,
but I've found it's better to just leave a spot for him to land on
all fours. Nothing can block him. In fact, trying to block him only
pisses him off and he knocks stuff off to prove to me that I can't
prevent him from jumping up there.