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Mine are daredevils around the house, but one instance convinced me to not put a staircase on my tallest deck.
Back in 2000, when I first had the pond put in.. I'd go out on my large deck to check on things very often. Alway before we left and right when we came home, I'd peek out there. The deck has no stairs down..only access is from a upper (main) floor door on my house. One side is probably 25 feet down to rocks and the other is about 15 feet down to a boardwalk.
When I came home one night after being gone about 3 hours, I went to check the pond off the deck. When I got out there (flashlight in hand checking for racoons), I heard a thump behind me. Somehow, Bubba.. one of my pixie bobs, had snuck out the storm door as it closed 3 hours earlier when I checked on the pond before we left. Of all the cats, he's the most fearless. Well, instead of jumping and being long gone, injured or dead, he'd decided it was best to settle in on one of the deck chairs and wait it out.
Thankfully.
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