Thread: landing bannisters

Ours is the same, just testing out her balancing skills I think, the older one stopped doing it about 2 years old, the kitty keeps jumping up and walks it like the tightrope She did fall off the other day but no damage done, they just seem to get back up, dust themselves down as it were

Now I've typed that.. I don't think I've seen her get up there since

We had a ledge over our foyer that was about 13ft high. Our cat would love to sleep there with his back to the door. When we walked into the room, he'd wake up, roll over to look at us, (not realizing he was at the edge) and fall to the floor. He always landed on his feet and walked away with his pride intact. But talk about waiting up to a nightmare. Wonder what went thru his mind as he was plummeting to the tile floor?

I would strongly advise caution on this one. I know of kittens who have been injured or even killed by falling from the upstairs landing down to the ground floor. It is a myth that cats always land on their feet. Sometimes they don't. It might be an idea to consider putting something across your banisters to stop the cat walking through or jumping up and possibly falling down.

Yes I am very concerned about it but just can't think what to do. O/H had an idea of fixing a roller blind to the wall to roll across and be fixed onto the banister, but this is it at the moment. So any better ideas will be gratefully accepted.

Lightbulb moment a painted piece of trellis-work attached to the banister going right up to the ceiling, should do the trick, now the tricky bit - getting O/H to do it

A friend of mine said they taped cardboard on each side of the banister and bent it so it would come up at a 45 degree angle. They said it looked terrible, but prevented their moggies from jumping onto the banister. They left it there for a month then took it down. They report their cats haven't jumped up on banister since. That was a few years ago.

Occasionally mine go for it and they have never landed in trouble yet but I appreciate the worrying thoughts about it. I'm sure that's why my little girl does it just so she can snigger at me having panic attacks I don't know if it was on here or elsewhere I saw pictures of someone who had broadened and flattened the bannister by somehow fixing shelving to it which I think might have been carpeted too.