# My husband threw the cat down the stairs tonight. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 21, 2006, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-threw-the-cat-down-the-stairs-tonight/361527 "2006-06-21T02:29:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-threw-the-cat-down-the-stairs-tonight/361527/21 "2006-06-22T04:09:11Z")
I’ve got the table the computer’s on and another desk right next to it that holds the printer, CDs, various papers and other junk, and right now the cat. Shadow somehow manages to stretch out to three feet or so and is currently sticking his paws right in the way of the mouse. And he won’t move them, no matter how much I bump his paws. Stupid cat. Can’t you curl up like a normal cat? ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-threw-the-cat-down-the-stairs-tonight/361527/22 "2006-06-22T04:20:06Z")
I had a cat in a previous second floor apartment. There was a window in my bedroom and one in my kitchen on the outside of the house they were about 5 feet apart at an angle to one another. During the summer both windows were left open. My cat decided jumping from window to window was a great way to get around. It worked well for her untill one night I closed my window because a breeze. I was woken up to the sounds of something slamming into my window, a few desperate scratches of her trying to catch the window sil and a meow. After that fall she was limping a bit. The vet found no broken bones or anything. She recovered fine. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-threw-the-cat-down-the-stairs-tonight/361527/23 "2006-06-22T05:29:12Z")
> [@joemama24\_98](#): > > My wife and I were recently invited over to couple’s house (first time, just starting to become friends). We were having drinks on their third floor balcony. > > Their 12 year old cat was sitting on the porch railing and I accidentally bumped her and knocked her off. I swear I could hear the Doppler effect on her mournful meow as she fell off. Bwah! Tears. Actual tears of laughter. Sorry, poor kitty, but… Bwah! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-threw-the-cat-down-the-stairs-tonight/361527/24 "2006-06-22T09:46:42Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > She ran head first, full-speed into the door; when he opened it to see the damage, she was just sitting there, licking her chops and looking a little dazed. She shook it off in about five minutes, and was off and running (full-speed) again. Our last cat did a similar thing - he charged into a closed door (I had shut it so my husband could sleep in - normally it was open) - after I heard the very loud _thud_, I heard the pitter-patter of paws charging back down the hall. I looked in the living room to see said feline sitting on the half wall having a casual wash. He was such a bone head. I miss the li’l guy… ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-threw-the-cat-down-the-stairs-tonight/361527/25 "2006-06-22T13:37:53Z")
> [@Savannah](#): > > Bwah! > > Tears. Actual tears of laughter. Sorry, poor kitty, but… > > Bwah! It’s the whole Doppler Effect reference that makes joemama’s post so funny. I mean, we can hear the poor kitty! And yeah, it’s funny. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-threw-the-cat-down-the-stairs-tonight/361527/26 "2006-06-22T19:08:59Z")
The **high rise syndrome** is pretty impressive until you consider that the vets never get to see the ones that didn’t survive the fall. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-threw-the-cat-down-the-stairs-tonight/361527/27 "2006-06-22T20:38:11Z")
> [@jeffrice](#): > > It’s the whole Doppler Effect reference that makes joemama’s post so funny. I mean, we can hear the poor kitty! And yeah, it’s funny. I concur. Well, plus cats being flung. I’m partial to that myself. ---
**Author:** ![fuffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fuffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuffle)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-threw-the-cat-down-the-stairs-tonight/361527/28 "2006-06-22T21:59:43Z")
I have some 12-week-old foster kitties right now and I accidentally double-punted one just last week when I was walking through the house. It all happened so fast I that I didn’t realize what was happening at the time and had to reconstruct the events later from forensic evidence. I think the kit was trying to catch my right foot when I kicked just his butt, which sent him spinning forward into my left foot, whereupon I caught him under the belly and booted him into the air where he bounced off the wall, ricocheted off a pile of junk, and eventually rolled to a stop under the couch. After I got my heart started again, I coaxed him out from under the couch, where he was giving me the stink-eye. He wasn’t hurt, it seemed, just humiliated. It’s left me paranoid, though, so now I do a heebie-jeebie dance everywhere I go around the house. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-threw-the-cat-down-the-stairs-tonight/361527/29 "2006-06-23T14:15:01Z")
You can tell people with cats by their somewhat cautious, semi-shuffle step while walking around the house (the better to not launch any cats who happen to saunter by while your’e in mid-step, a speciality of so many cats.) ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2006, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-threw-the-cat-down-the-stairs-tonight/361527/30 "2006-06-24T02:36:38Z")
Cats are _too_ supposed to fly! Our Shilla loves to sit in **Zyada** ’s lap, until she starts to warm up for a sneeze. He looks up at her as if to say “You’re not going to do that _again_, are you?” and watches, and watches, and as soon as she does sneeze, he goes straight up in the air, kicks off the wall, and rushes out the door. I’ve managed to kick our new one Amira a few times, but not too badly. Moody manages to avoid all that - she’ll give a dirty look to anybody making noise, and keeps herself out of the way of us clumsy humans. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-threw-the-cat-down-the-stairs-tonight/361527.md?page=1)