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I know it varies a little bit from cat to cat, so I'll be really curious to see how high TCS cats can jump. Charlie can jump from the ground to a perch that's about 6 feet high.
Athletic kitty! Thanks for sharing! I'd love to see pictures or videos if you have any!Playing with the laser toy Luna has jumped up straight up the wall about 7 or 8 feer maybe
I'll have to measure Charlie, to figure out his theoretical jump height (if he can stay still long enough). I'm curious!.
White Tip - my top jumper - can reach the top of a bookcase which I just measured at 70 inches - just shy of six feet. The rule of thumb is six times a cat's body length from nose to the base of the tail, which means that Bob could ostensibly attain a vertical leap of roughly twelve and a half feet, however, at almost 35 pounds, I believe he'd require either a hot air balloon or a medium sized skyrocket as a booster. He doesn't even jump to the counter in a single bound, but instead, uses a chair as an interim step, though to be fair, his speed from the sofa to the food bowl is probably the equal of any Cheetah.
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That's what I'd imagine, especially after watching the slow motion Gibbs video!.
You'd have to ask basscat directly, but I believe that Gibbs can jump twelve feet even before he's had his morning coffee.
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That's impressive! Beautiful pictures, too.Our Bengal Makena can do 10 feet straight up. I know this because he saw a bird on a rafter in our barn and went for it. I measured it later. He then let out some very worried sounding yowls when he realized how far back DOWN he had to go. With a little coaxing he found he could jump onto a shelf along the wall, then down to the floor.
I find it more amazing how far he can jump horizontally: about 12 feet from standing still, quite a bit further if he has a running start.
This was taken during a jump of around 10 feet across a steam landing on a rock about 4 feet higher than his starting point..
This was about 6 or 7 feet across..
Seems like he is more hesitant to go up than horizontal. I think he is cautious about being able to clearly see what he is landing on: tough to visualize the landing zone when it is above.