Posted on 05/14/2021 2:23:17 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
A black cat survived after jumping out of a window of a multistory office building on fire Thursday in Chicago.
Chicago Fire Media shared a video on Twitter that shows the cat taking the leap and landing on its feet on the ground below. The video also caught people’s reactions to the cat risking its life...
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On a related note officials are actively looking for a certain black cat suspected of setting a fire in a midtown office building. His current whereabouts are unknown.
Some Cats are more decisive than other Cats.
When your office room is filling up with smoke and fire, there is no time for pussyfooting around.
saw video on a show the other night cat fell about 6-8 stories (I didn’t count how many stories, but it was a long ways up there-)- landed on feet in some sand, and ran off-
Black cats matter.
Well there went about 6 of its lives.
B9LM!
“WHEEEEE!”
*thud*
“I’m out.”
I just hope the cat was reunited with his humans, so he can gloat forever about how amazing he is!
Seriously. What was a black cat doing in an office building? Up to no good I bet...
Black cats are awesome. I have a big, chunky black tomcat, and wouldn’t trade him for anything. :)
Most cats that I know want to have NOTHING AT ALL to do with a Leftist-started fire.
saw video on a show the other night cat fell about 6-8 stories (I didn’t count how many stories, but it was a long ways up there-)- landed on feet in some sand, and ran off-
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Cats not only can twist themselves around to land on their feet, they instinctively fall with their limbs splayed out which increases parasitic drag. Amazingly, they then perfectly time moving their “landing gear” down-and-locked and just a fraction of a second before making contact with the ground.
I love my long hair black maine coons. I’m more of a dog guy but this cat may have turned me. He’s loving and he’s a bad ass. And pretty damn smart.
Streaky?
That’s why you have to tape a piece of buttered toast
to their backs before you throw them off the roof,
it gets them confused.
From Pets.webmd.com
Another common misconception is that falling from a lower height isn’t dangerous to your pet. However, a fall from a one- or two-story window can actually put your cat in more danger than a higher fall. It takes a little time for your cat to twist themselves around to land on their feet; short falls may not give them enough to do this, leading to injuries.
Luckily for pet owners, cats are unlikely to ever jump from a high window unless they trust that they will land safely. Cats have excellent survival instincts, after all. This means that many cases of high-rise syndrome happen when a cat falls accidentally from a high window or fire escape.
Cats are incredibly athletic but I wouldn’t have thought one could fall that far and not be hurt or killed.
There’s office buildings that have windows that open?
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