What an interesting
post. Thankfully the
tale ended without
catastrophe/groan
>> the survival rate for falling cats gets worse as the height increases to 7 stories, then gets better.
Thanks for the linky - explains a few things. My Ziggy - enigma cat of nine live and more - fell only about 6 foot from first branch on a tree and unfortunately shattered the top his femur when he was tiny. I watched in slo-mo horror as he didn't quite have enough time to right himself and crashed down onto a concrete flag.
He now has a 'false' hip joint after having to have a Femoral Head Ostectomy. With him being so young his inexperience probably didnt help much either as it was one of his first excursions into the garden.
He got his first ever sighting of a bird in the tree, ran up after it and learnt the hard way that birds aren't quite as heavy as cats and they have the ability to fly. You can see from the photo below which part of his body hit the ground first.
He's actually done very well after the FHO op. For many months he couldnt even jump up on the sofa, but because he was young it gave him an advantage of being able to form a false hip joint purely from muscle. He learnt to run and jump after I got Zoe and matched her progress as she started to climb and explore.