Bern Residents Take Excellent Care Of Their Cats, And The City’s Cat Ladders Have Become A Tourist Attraction
Cats are wonderful and athletic creatures. They are strong and agile, making them ideal for performing fantastic acrobatics. They certainly don’t need our help when navigating dangerous structures (trees not included), but making it easier for them can’t hurt.
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The residents of Bern, Switzerland, take good care of their cats and want to make moving around easier for them in a way that improves their safety without making them lazy and bored. That’s why the city’s buildings are riddled with cat ladders.
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These ladders resemble fire ladders but are much smaller. They are attached to the outer walls and, besides creating safe paths for cats, also form an attractive image for tourists.
Brigitte Schuster, a graphic designer and writer, records this phenomenon in her new book, Swiss Cat Ladders.
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An average adult cat can jump five to six times its height, roughly 4 to 5 feet.
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Of course, there are exceptions.
During one study, cats were recorded jumping up to seven or eight times their height.
The Guinness Book of World Records states that the longest horizontal jump by a cat was 7 feet.
It is held by Waffle, the Warrior Cat from the U.S.
I wonder how he would do here?
Getting Ready
Looks like great fun.
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