Lucky the Cat Lives Up To His Name
June 2, 2009 by Heather R.
Filed under Pets
If this isn’t heart stopping I don’t know what is!
Three-year-old Lucky, a curious grey tabby cat, managed to squeeze through just six inches of open window in his owner, Keri’s, home office. The problem with this, though, is that the apartment was located 26 stories up and the ledge Lucky crawled onto wasn’t very wide.
A window washing team across the way saw the cat and started taking pictures — first they got Lucky on the ledge, then the fall, and then a very-much-alive Lucky on a neighbor’s patio 26 floors below.
The vet that was interviewed in the news story said that it’s actually a good thing that Lucky had such a high fall, because when a cat reaches its terminal velocity it actually relaxes, which helps keep injuries to a minimum upon impact.
Lucky had only a few minor injuries himself, and owner Keri said she’s keeping all windows in her apartment permanently closed from now on.
