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Cat Falls 26 Stories, Lives to Purr Again
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| May 30, 2009
| LINDSAY GOLDWERT
Posted on 05/30/2009 9:26:22 AM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: Daffynition
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posted on
05/30/2009 10:21:09 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
05/30/2009 10:21:19 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
("If any of you die, can I please have your ammo?" ~ Gator113)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
05/30/2009 10:23:06 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
("If any of you die, can I please have your ammo?" ~ Gator113)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
05/30/2009 10:27:13 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Hot Tabasco
We have to be careful because for some reason our cats - a brother and sister - do NOT land on their feet if they fall. They just crash in whatever position they land in without even trying to make any course corrections on the way down. I guess they missed that lesson in cat school...
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posted on
05/30/2009 10:33:12 AM PDT
by
meowmeow
(In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
To: JoeProBono
My cat stays right where I put her. Fail safe.
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posted on
05/30/2009 10:35:08 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
("If any of you die, can I please have your ammo?" ~ Gator113)
To: meowmeow
What a funny lack of instinct. Or maybe they just expect you to swoop in and catch them ;)
To: JoeProBono
To: Yardstick
Or maybe they just expect you to swoop in and catch them ;)Welfare recipients.
To: JoeProBono
A couple of New York city vets that studied the fall of cats from the local high rises said that a cat was more likely to survive a 26 story fall than a three story fall.
The damage from the lower falls are easy to understand but the explanation for the better survival rate of the high falls is that the cat reaches terminal velocity anyway, but that after a point the cat relaxes and when it lands the blow is spread from it’s feet, legs and to its rib cage and belly, most of them die or at least are badly damaged, but some of them survive.
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posted on
05/30/2009 11:16:20 AM PDT
by
ansel12
(Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
To: JoeProBono
Okay. Now let’s try it off the Empire State.
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posted on
05/30/2009 11:19:13 AM PDT
by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
To: Daffynition
To: KoRn; Slings and Arrows; Glenn; republicangel; Bahbah; Beaker; BADROTOFINGER; etabeta; ...
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posted on
05/30/2009 11:58:10 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("If Dick Cheney is Darth Vader, then Barack Obama is Jar-Jar Binks!")
To: ansel12
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posted on
05/30/2009 12:08:41 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("If Dick Cheney is Darth Vader, then Barack Obama is Jar-Jar Binks!")
To: Slings and Arrows
That is a good link, and does a much better job of explaining what I was trying to explain. Luckily I wasn’t too far off in my description, considering I only read an article on it about 15 years ago.
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05/30/2009 12:26:31 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
To: ansel12
Cecil Adams generally does a good job. His archive of columns is well worth browsing through.
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posted on
05/30/2009 12:38:57 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("If Dick Cheney is Darth Vader, then Barack Obama is Jar-Jar Binks!")
To: Slings and Arrows
To: BenLurkin
Whoever made that pic had an excellent imagination. I love my cats, but they’re no angels!
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05/30/2009 1:13:24 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("If Dick Cheney is Darth Vader, then Barack Obama is Jar-Jar Binks!")
To: meowmeow
I guess they missed that lesson in cat school...
Well, at the time, Squeek was (I hope she's not watching as I type this) FAT! About 15 lbs. She tried to jump on the bed and for some reason I accidentally pushed her back and she landed wrong which resulted in the broken leg.
The vet I took her to wrapped her leg in some sort of cast which was supported by a rod which went up the leg and over the back and pretty much immobilized her. It was awful. $650.........That was Monday. She immediately stopped eating, could barely get to her litter box.
Thursday evening I called my sister and told her what happened and she immediately called her vet, who was also a personal friend, and he called me back at 10:00 p.m. that Thusday night and told me to bring squeek in the following morning.
When I brought her in, he couldn't believe what my vet had done to her. Squeek's leg was completely broken in half with a third piece of the bone floating free.
He told me to leave Squeek and what he would do is insert a rod down the entire lower leg, wrap it with a piece of wire to hold the broken off bone in place then put a protective wrap on the whole lower leg while it healed.
When I brought her home, she immediately started eating and drinking and she was mobile enough to start using her litter box again. About 6 or 8 weeks later, I took her back to the Vet, he removed the rod, stitched up the incision and the rest is history except for the fact that I put her on diet food and she is now down to her ideal fighting weight...........$1,200 but well worth it.
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posted on
05/30/2009 1:29:16 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(This country isn't going to hell in a handbasket, it's riding shotgun in an Indy car....)
To: Hot Tabasco
That's horrible! Poor Squeek! I'm glad your sister's vet stepped in! I've been using the same vet - at a small, dedicated cat hospital - since 1992. I know she is thinking of retiring and I dread having a stranger take care of my babies!
One of my kitties is bordering on fatness. My husband seems to be in denial about it (hmmmm...he is also overweight) but maybe if I tell him your story, he will work with me on slimming her down a little.
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posted on
05/30/2009 2:00:01 PM PDT
by
meowmeow
(In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
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