[Vision2020] Caturday (March 24, 2012)

[Donovan Arnold]

"A veterinarian says acting like a flying squirrel may have saved a cat from serious injury in a 19-story plunge from a Boston high rise."
 
I'll have to remember that next time I am falling from the 19th floor of a building, just act like a flying squirrel. If only the Wright Brothers had that idea first.

From: Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>
To: Moscow Vision 2020 <Vision2020 at moscow.com> 
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 6:49 AM
Subject: [Vision2020] Caturday (March 24, 2012)


"You fall nineteen stories, what do you get
Another life gone and a trip to the vet
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I'll owe my soul to a screened window."

Courtesy of Animal Rescue League of Boston at:

http://home.arlboston.org/2012/03/22/cat-survives-19-story-plunge-from-high-rise-window/
 
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Cat Survives 19-Story Plunge from High Rise Window

BOSTON -- A veterinarian says acting like a flying squirrel may have saved a cat from serious injury in a 19-story plunge from a Boston high rise.

Sugar the cat had no broken bones or cuts, just some bruising on her lungs after the fall from a window owner Brittany Kirk had opened to enjoy the recent unseasonably warm weather.

The Animal Rescue League estimates Sugar fell between 150 and 200 feet.

Kirk tells WBZ-TV she thinks Sugar used up "one or two or maybe eight" of her nine lives.

Veterinarian Hugh Davis says in falls from high places, cats splay their legs in a "flying squirrel position" which slows their descent.

Kirk calls Sugar's survival a "miracle" and says building management has since installed a screen in her window.

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Many thanks to Rescue Services and Boston Veterinary Care’s Dr. Hugh Davis for their great work yesterday. Thankfully, ”Sugar” is okay after her ordeal. 



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Seeya Sunday, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Wallace, Idaho

"If not us, who?
If not now, when?"

- Unknown



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