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Okay, for the first time Sasha scared the willies out of me! Not long after we brought him and Nina home, Sasha took a fall off the stairs up to our second floor. We don't know how far he fell, but he made a pretty solid thump when he hit the floor, loud enough that we clearly heard it in the next room. Fortunately he was okay, but after that I put up a cardboard barrier around the upstairs landing so he and his sister couldn't walk through the vertical supports in the stair rail and fall the twelve or so feet to the first floor (which is very hard vinyl). Now that they're five months old, we decided to take the cardboard barrier down. No sooner had I taken it off when Sasha pokes his not-so-little head through the railing and tries to walk on the outside of the bottom of the railing: about two inches wide and open to the floor a long way below. Maybe I'm an overprotective dad, but I pulled his furry butt back and just kind of sat and looked at him, wondering what to do. That's when he spied Nina down below, just coming out of the basement. Sasha, the lunatic, crept right up to the railing and was in the act of pouncing when I caught his fluffy tail! So, I put the cardboard barrier back up. But then they wanted to climb it to get to the bannister railing. So I improvised a little barrier of duct tape - sticky side out - along the top of the cardboard barrier, and gently but insistently introduced them to it in hopes they wouldn't like it (which they didn't). Am I overprotective? Can a young cat survive a fall like that (a good twelve feet)? Or is he just a crazy kitty? I thought cats would have enough survival instict to not do things like that; on the other hand, there's the old saying that "curiosity killed the cat." All I know is that I don't want Sasha or his sister to be an example of that! Discuss this article on the forums. (0 posts) |
