# How high could I jump if my legs were as powerful as a house cat's hind legs?

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**Created:** [December 22, 2003, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-high-could-i-jump-if-my-legs-were-as-powerful-as-a-house-cats-hind-legs/220421 "2003-12-22T06:24:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-high-could-i-jump-if-my-legs-were-as-powerful-as-a-house-cats-hind-legs/220421/39 "2003-12-22T12:37:31Z")

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> I realise this is going to go down as just another baseless assertion, but an almost universal problem for cat owners is that the cats jump up onto the kitchen worktops - worktops are more than two feet off the ground

I said 2 feet IIRC in my first post. It turns out I recalled wrong and the standard height all animals can jump to is about 1 metre/3’4”. Or slightly higher than the average worktop. I am sorry if I did not make that clear.

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