Can cats get out of 2nd storey windows?

[YellowHighHeels]

Bit of a mystery! We have 2 gorgeous boys who are allowed out in the day and evening but stay in at night as we haven't had a cat flap fitted yet. The only windows open at night (only slightly but as we know, cats are composed of liquid) are on the top floor of a 3 storey house. Vertical drop. No drainpipe in reach of windows.

Now, 2 mornings this week, we have found the younger and less predictable cat outside in the morning. I have no idea how he got there. I get up first. No kids/lodger or other means of exit.

We are as certain as can be that he was in at night the second time. We assumed first time he must've slipped back out when bringing the other in but I'm actually not sure.

Would a young, fit cat be able to just exit via a 2nd storey window without seemingly injuring himself at all?? Are they even known to try?

I had a cat who could open doors and windows. Once I shut him in the utility room and locked the window, so he unplumbed the tumble dryer hose and went out through the wall.

My current cat, however, has all the acrobatic prowess of a baked potato.

Yep, my cat got out to r bathroom window
had another who could get into the kitty biccies they are clever

Yes. We moved. Kept cats in, they got out, repeatedly, we had no idea how ubtil we were sat watching TV and saw a black and white blur sailing past the window, having jumped from an upstairs window.

I've just 5 minutes ago stopped my two from disappearing out of DS's bedroom window onto the roof

It is only first floor onto a chalet roof but still scares me

We live in a 2 storey house and have to be careful not to leave the windows open when hes roaming upstairs as he will climb on the window sill and jump up. We have windows that have a big opening and then a small one at the top and he will climb up to the small bit and try and hang out. 😅

@EmpressaurusOfCats there was a lot of commotion - this particular cat was very proud and protective of anything alive or dead he brought home as ‘presents’. Mum offered neighbours replacement sausages - this was back in the early 70s and a small hamlet of just 13 houses, so stolen sausages outrage made it quicker round the houses than a tornado! Dad had wanted the sausages cooked - but they did go in the bin.
For a while afterwards the nightly ritual of locking doors / letting dig out for a wee etc also included getting the cats in, shutting windows and blocking the cat flap up.

Yes I’m sure it’s possible , we had a Siamese cat who couldn’t be bothered to go down the stairs and would just jump out of the bedroom windows.

One of my cats used to jump out of the bathroom window, land on a very very small pipe, then do the second half of the jump to the floor. Came to no harm, but we did have to keep the bathroom window closed at night to keep him in.

Yes, they can. When I was a child my mother's cat jumped out of the upstairs bathroom window.

My own cat jumped out of an upstairs window to land on the conservatory roof when it was wet and slither down with a splash into the guttering. Arsehole creature!! 🙄🤣

Some can also climb in through upstairs windows if they can get a leg up on anything. My neighbour and his wife got the fright of their lives one hot summer night at about 2am when they were asleep in bed and their cat suddenly jumped in through the open window, landing on top of them. 😲🤣 It had gone out through the cat flap, then got up onto the garage roof and from there had been able to get to the bedroom window.

They absolutely can. My chubby tabby pushed my bedroom window open further, tiptoed along my windowsill, took a flying leap onto the garage roof and then totally panicked because he didn't want to be there. Fortunately he did it while I was there so I could rescue him.

This is why we have 'cat burglers'

Reminded me of this:

One of mine does. He spent a long time sneakily ripping the flyscreen off a window so he could go outside overnight. He is extremely angry I found this and closed the window.