# Please Stop Leaving Your Cat Outside Tethered to a Leash

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [November 16, 2002, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-leaving-your-cat-outside-tethered-to-a-leash/136981 "2002-11-16T03:22:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-leaving-your-cat-outside-tethered-to-a-leash/136981/61 "2020-05-05T18:50:33Z")

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> [@CRorex](#):
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> The cat gets to go out to the top porch. [. . .] it can’t get loose (not many cats are going to jump down off a second story).

I know it’s a zombie, but in case now that it’s resurrected other people read the rest of the thread and come across the quoted post:

I have personally known at least two cats who jumped off a second story: one from a porch roof, one out of a window which he’d torn the screen out of. (Never use fiberglass screens if you’ve got cats. Use the older metal screens.) Neither of them was hurt (though I wouldn’t count on that; these were young healthy cats who landed on soft lawn); but they were both very definitely loose. (They both came back home; they were indoor-outdoor cats in any case.)

Also, google “high-rise syndrome.” There are plenty of cats who have jumped or fallen from higher than that. Results are all too often not good at all.

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