premise: I said I was sorry and that he was welcome to look in our back yard for the cat . The gate is only waist high , so I was not too worried , but still ... this could be his weird rapist ploy ... Luckily for me , he is not a rapist . So , I go out back and ask him what his cat looks like . He thinks it went into the neighbors yard because the their dog keeps barking . Why did the writer tell the man that he 's welcome to look in the back yard for the cat ?
hypothesis: Because the gate is only waist high .