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From: liz@tove.UUCP (Liz Allen)
Newsgroups: net.pets
Subject: Re: cats and appartments
Message-ID: <324@tove.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Sep-85 14:08:14 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  6 14:08:14 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 10-Sep-85 20:14:28 EDT
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Reply-To: liz@tove.UUCP (Liz Allen)
Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD
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In article <132@vaximile.UUCP> rer@vaximile.UUCP (R.RICHARDSON) writes:
>A good friend of mine let his cat out on the (5th floor) balcony of
>his condo.  The cat has fallen twice now.  Once onto a foot of snow,
>and once onto bare ground.  The cat's still alive, and the vet has
>gone into retirement, a very wealthy man from treating the cat's
>injuries.  Cat's do not seem to grasp that the little birdie that
>looks delicious way down there is going to live longer than the cat
>thinks!

I'm surprised to hear this (and other similar notes on the net).
I lived in an apartment with a balcony (4th floor) and never had
any problem with the cats on the balcony.  Even the kittens that
I had at one point, once they were old enough to be wandering on
their own, did not seem likely to fall off -- unless they were
playing around and not paying any attention.

I guess, though, with so many stories to the contrary, it would be
a good idea to watch your cats carefully on the balcony before
assuming they'll have enough sense to be careful.....
-- 
Liz Allen    U of Maryland   ...!seismo!umcp-cs!liz   liz@tove.ARPA

"This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you:  God
 is light; in him there is no darkness at all" -- 1 John 1:5