Me-Ouch: Cat Survives 80-Foot Fall

Thread view:

Enable EMail Alerts

Start New Thread

Thread rating:

Brandy Alexandre - 22 Mar 2006 21:40 GMT

Me-Ouch: Cat Survives 80-Foot Fall

Tue Mar 21, 9:54 PM ET

Piper the cat may have used up a life or two but was unharmed after
falling nearly 80 feet from a tree.

She had been in the tree for eight days when a rescuer started up to
save her Monday. But a scared Piper crept away until the limb
underneath her snapped.

She fell 80 feet, twisting and turning in the air before slamming onto
the ground. It looked like a CATastrophe, but Piper wasn't even dazed,
scampering off before her owner Rodney Colvin could catch her.

Piper was found a few minutes later under a vehicle. Her owner said she
had no broken bones and was only a little dehydrated.

Signature

Brandy Alexandre

-- Everything tastes better with cat hair in it. =^.^=

Reply to this Message

Toni - 22 Mar 2006 22:44 GMT

> Me-Ouch: Cat Survives 80-Foot Fall

I saw this cat and family on Good Morning America.

Good God, people.
The cat has just been through the most stressful experience of its life so
what do you do?
Drag it halfway across the country into a television studio? I find this to
be alarmingly close to torture from a cats point of view.

Some people have no respect for their animals.

Signature

Toni
http://www.irish-wolfhounds.com

Reply to this Message

Brandy Alexandre - 22 Mar 2006 23:05 GMT

Toni <Toni@nada.noway> wrote in rec.pets.cats.health+behav:

>> Me-Ouch: Cat Survives 80-Foot Fall
>
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
>
> Some people have no respect for their animals.

Yikes! That's mean.

I have a little video clip of a cat leaping from the top of a phone
pole, landing on its feet and running off. That twist and flipping and
propeller tail gets them out of a jam like no tomorrow.

Signature

Brandy Alexandre

-- Everything tastes better with cat hair in it. =^.^=

Reply to this Message

Claude V. Lucas - 23 Mar 2006 00:05 GMT

>Toni <Toni@nada.noway> wrote in rec.pets.cats.health+behav:
>
[quoted text clipped - 16 lines]
>pole, landing on its feet and running off. That twist and flipping and
>propeller tail gets them out of a jam like no tomorrow.

I saw the cat fall out of the tree on the news last night.
It looked like it spread itself out like a flying squirrel
to slow itself down while it was falling and then took off
like a shot when it hit the ground, poor thing.

Amazing

Claude

Reply to this Message

Brandy Alexandre - 23 Mar 2006 02:44 GMT

Claude V. Lucas <claudel@sonic.net> wrote in
rec.pets.cats.health+behav:

>>Toni <Toni@nada.noway> wrote in rec.pets.cats.health+behav:
>>
[quoted text clipped - 26 lines]
>
> Claude

Probably the most remarkable leap I saw was a cat on the second
floor balcont of a burning apartment building. It's owner was
outside and called for it to jump to him. It did! He caught it,
too! (but probably not without some claw tracks).

Signature

Brandy Alexandre

--Everything tastes better with cat hair in it. =^.^=

Reply to this Message