purplecthulhu

Our large cat (admittedly only 6 kilos, but he's underweight) is a very powerful jumper. All of the others are two to four kilos, and definitely prefer jumping to climbing.

And thanks for catching chihuahua. They can be very annoying, but the pedant in me went ballisitic. ;~)

Heh heh heh. Which is why I repeatedly warned my ex about allowing the cute little labrador puppy with ***enormous*** paws to climb all over him every time he lay on the floor, and strenously suggested he not begin the "Drakey lies on the floor and allows the puppy to wrestle him" game.
Cute and fun when the puppy is 6 inches tall and weighs about 2kg. Not so fun when the puppy is just under 2 feet tall and weighs 36kg, but still jumps on your head when you are, say, lying on the floor and reading the newspaper. Much as I love my Digby-dog, and cute and cuddly as he was as a puppy, I knew he was going to grow up big and never cuddled him on my lap. Next to me, yes, on me, no.

I knew people years ago who had an immaculate, fully coordinated house, with a sleek black leather and chrome couch on one side of their living room, and a grey, battered, broken down couch with 'dog couch, don't sit' spray painted on it, on the other side of the room. They also owned a newfoundland who weighed 95kg and considered laps fair game. They compromised by training him that he wasn't allowed on the 'new' couch, and just tried to keep people from sitting on the 'dog couch'. But they discovered to their aesthetic cost that if they took away the dog couch, no matter what they did, he'd climb up on the expensive couch, because since he'd been a puppy, he was always allowed on at least ***one*** comfy chair. Silly people :)