[Vision2020] Caturday (March 24, 2012)

[Paul Rumelhart]

Cat's surviving high falls happens often enough that there is a name for 
it: "high-rise syndrome" (see 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-rise_syndrome).

There was a study done in New York that found that cat's that fell a few 
stories had less survivability as the height increased until they 
reached something like 6 or 7 stories.  Higher than that and they had a 
better chance of survival then they did at six or seven stories.  
Something about the flying squirrel shape and the fact that they hit 
terminal velocity at about that height.  In a way, once they hit 
terminal velocity it wouldn't matter how far they fell.

Interesting stuff.

Paul

On 03/24/2012 06:59 AM, Donovan Arnold wrote:
> "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.
>
> Donovan Arnold
>
> *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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