My friend, ThunderingBull, used to have a spring loaded tree stand. He had gotten tired of putting the tree back up several times a day.

One day I was snoozing in the living room recliner and the tree was in the adjoining dinning room. One cat climbed all the way to the top of the tree. The other two followed up the same side of the tree but only made it half way. The sound of the tree going over woke me up.

With the tree laying over, the two cats midway up just let go and ran off. The small cat clinging to the top branch was to frightend to let go, then. Physics, and the strong springs, took over.

As I watched the tree come back up, I realized that I was down range.

I put my hands up to try to catch the newest member of air-borne. Poor cat was not 'pulted that far. No damage to cat.