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I got bored and was curious myself.
Assuming a cat can jump just over 2m (record is around 7' apparently) then you have a launch velocity of around 6.5m/s. Plugging this in as an escape velocity works out to around a 1-2km diameter asteroid. Not huge, but not bad for a small animal.
My error bars are quite large, so it's only an order of magnitude calculation.
Yeah thats not bad, assuming the asteroid is a perfect sphere, that comes out to a surface area of 12km^2^ for an interstellar cat colony that can move into orbit at will.