Cat falls 80' and lives

[bstewert]

Eight days in a tree is no big deal for a cat, but the 80' fall is pretty impressive. I'd sure like to know the details of why a good arborist couldn't get to the cat.


http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130103/NEWS/301030348/-1/NEWS

 

[Al Smith]

Well Tom AKA Alpine Tree cut a limb from under a cat and is was about 70 feet in the air at the time .Hit the ground and skeddadled .Came back the next day unscathed .

I've always maintained if a cat can climb up they should be bright enough to climb down .I got clawed up by one years ago and I'll never go after another one .

 

[top_notch]

Eighty feet aint nothin for a cat!

 

[Al Smith]

Hmm you might be on to something there .They have little rain coats for dogs why not a parachute for a stupid cat that doesn't have the sense to climb down .

I see it all now .A remote controlled rocket to launch the feline out of the tree and a self opening chute .I'll bet that cat would be pizzed if nothing else .

Then again being a typical cat once it lit down it would probabley shinny up the first tree it came to then sit there and meow like the idiot it is .

 

[Porkbrick]

actually, a cats chances of injury go down above heights of around five stories. they have time to right themselves and spread out the legs like a parachute, slowing them down enough to survive some amazing falls.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17492802

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I think those hexa copters might seriously come in handy for kitty rescue....

 

[Porkbrick]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=y2OCwQJSHZM
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[MasterBlaster]

I think those hexa copters might seriously come in handy for kitty rescue....

There is a video out there where someone made one of those out of his dead cat. I'm sure I posted it in the video thread. He was actually flying his taxidermied cat.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I remember that....LOL