Cat have an uncanny instinct to go into a metabolic stasis under extreme conditions. I have no idea what evolutionary environments gave them this ability, but I have heard of several stories similar to this one.
God is capable of miracles for animals.
He made them and loves them as much or more than we do.
I used to know a vet in HK who wrote paper on what she called “The Flying Cat Syndrome”. In places where cats live in high buildings they will occasionally fall out a high rise window. Almost miraculously the cats could often survive a fall from 40 stories or higher. If the fall was from 10 to 20 stories they always died. They’d break bones when they fell from higher floors up but live.
She surmised that in longer falls they relaxed and spread out to slow themselves down but didn’t know because there was no way to experiment except by tossing animals out of high windows which was not ethical
My vet once told me that a cat drinking a lot of water is a danger sign for kidney failure saying that they are essentially desert animals.
My vet once told me that a cat drinking a lot of water is a danger sign for kidney failure saying that they are essentially desert animals.
Yeah actually a lot of animals can go into a low activity mode under certain circumstances. Cat could have just remained still, used minimal energy and not moved much, which would reduce fluid loss.
Cats are desert animals.