Cat-a-die-up-trick

[Rusted]

Early this morning I looked across at my half finished observatory.
To see a cat desperately trying to escape from the new base ring.
It was 4m or 12' above the ground and kept putting a foot over the edge.
Then going round and around looking for a safer way down.
Eventually it dropped down inside. Between the two, nested buildings.
I have been over to check but there was no sign of it. Presumably gone.
The poor image was taken through a rain covered window.

[David at Bythel Obs]

Sad about the cat hope escaped. Looks a fantastic observatory what will be inside? I have just put up a second pulsar observatory for AP so very keen to hear of similar projects.

[Rusted]

Hi David and thanks.

The old dome houses my 6" f/10 H-alpha, solar refractor. The new 4.3m /14' Ø GRP dome will house my 6".
Plus my 7" [f/12] refractor and my 10" f/8 Newtonian. I don't have room in my 3m/10' dome for the longer instruments.
So I have been concentrating on H-alpha solar imaging. The new dome is down on the ground in front of the obs. building.
Waiting for crane hire when the larger building [and dome] are completed.

[DaveL59]

awww poor kitty, probably went up the ladder to have a prowl around but then no easy way down other than a long drop to the ground below. Hopefully it made a good landing and is ok. One of mine fell off a first floor window box onto the concrete drive when he was 10 months or so and was fine, thankfully so hope this one was too 🙂

[Rusted]

3 hours ago, DaveL59 said:

awww poor kitty, probably went up the ladder to have a prowl around but then no easy way down other than a long drop to the ground below. Hopefully it made a good landing and is ok. One of mine fell off a first floor window box onto the concrete drive when he was 10 months or so and was fine, thankfully so hope this one was too 🙂

There is plenty of timber structure within the buildings for the cat to climb down safely.
It just needed to remember how it got there. No felines were injured in the construction of this thread.

[Macavity]

Cats are not very good at climbing DOWN from things!
"The only way is up?". But they CAN usually find a way. 🙃

I was amazed when my "slightly portly", AGED Feline
climbed up a round-rung metal ladder into the LOFT!
Took delight in hopping from joist to joist (laughing
at my clumsiness) as she avoided capture for an hour! 😼

[DaveL59]

I was lucky enough to spot one of mine before it managed to hop from the ladder into the loft, saved me a lot of fun trying to herd it back out. I've also had a couple years ago that found the builders scaffolding very interesting to explore up to the roof of the house. Getting back down tho, not so easy, nothing to grip on metal poles so I had to set planks for them to find their way back to ground.

[iapa]

On 20/06/2022 at 12:24, Macavity said:

Cats are not very good at climbing DOWN from things!
"The only way is up?". But they CAN usually find a way. 🙃

I was amazed when my "slightly portly", AGED Feline
climbed up a round-rung metal ladder into the LOFT!
Took delight in hopping from joist to joist (laughing
at my clumsiness) as she avoided capture for an hour! 😼

Our Bengals can go down near vertical planes face down - but, not average domestics.

[Macavity]

😎 Perhaps they've got some Margay in them. lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RewQMq13pw
... 180 deg rotatable ankles... walks vertically down trees. 😎